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HEALTH EDUCATION RESOURCE COLLECTIONFamily Life Education |
Title: 101 Ways to Make Love Without Doing It - See Disease Prevention
Title: Abstinence:
Deciding to Wait
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 18 minutes, 1991, Alfred Higgins Company
Synopsis: This video shows three couples and their approach
to sexual decision making. Communication skills are stressed. A very
positive reinforcement to the subject of abstinence.
(2006)Title:
AIDS: Everything You Should Know
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS and guide
Details: 1994, Channing Bete Co., 28 mins.
Synopsis: Medical professor Dr. Alexandra Levine and actress Whoopie
Goldberg present the facts on HIV/AIDS. They explain the various ways in
which HIV is contracted, and how to avoid it. In a forthright approach to
human sexuality, abstinence is emphasized as the safest course of action.
Does not discuss condom use.
(2007) Title:
Adolescent Health: Preventing HIV/STD and Teen Pregnancy
Grade Level: Adults
Format: VHS
Details: 2002, National Conference of State
Legislatures, 15 mins.
Synopsis: A series of experts discuss their experiences
and which methods do and do not work teaching teens about STDs and
pregnancy. Topics include parents and teens, issues, education, what works,
reducing risk, and roles of the legislature.
Title: Another Half
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 27 minutes, 1986, Bill Wadsworth Productions
Synopsis: A narrative film about two boys and their
struggle to broaden the boundaries of their masculinity. Will stimulate
discussion among both males and females concerning gender, role pressures,
sex role stereotyping, sexual responsibility, and life planning.
(2001)Title:
Baby Love
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 1997, Carol Cassidy, Direct Cinema Limited
Synopsis: Teen mothers tell their stories: what they want, what they need, what they hope for, and what they face. It is a startling, upfront look at how teenage mothers see things - from love, sex and virginity to pregnancy and the reality of single motherhood - all before they're old enough to graduate from high school.
Title: Being Safe
Grade Level: 4-6
Format: VHS
B19 minutes, 1990, FilmFair Communications
Synopsis: Portrays real life situations that abused
children encounter and how to apply skills of self-protection. Stresses
communication and self-esteem.
Title: Birth Control: Myths and
Methods (Revised)
Grade Level: Teen to adult
Format: VHS
Details: 26 minutes, 1991, Churchill Films
Synopsis: This film combats the myths about contraception
and is intended to reduce unplanned pregnancies. It is primarily for
teenagers, both male and female. The information on contraception is divided
into three sections; drugstore methods, methods available by prescriptions
and natural family planning.
Title: Can A Guy Say No?
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 31 minutes, 1986, Learning Corporation of America
Synopsis: Designed to help teens realize that teenage males
feel social pressures to have sex and that it's okay to like someone and not
"go all the way."
Title: Children are Watching
Grade Level: 9-12, Adult
Format: VHS
Details: 12 minutes, 1995, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
Synopsis: Focuses on the effects of domestic violence on
children. Includes interviews with children who share their feelings about
violence, and types of help that is available.
Title: Choosing to Wait: Sex and
Teenagers
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 35 minutes, 1989, Sunburst Communications
Synopsis: Presented in three segments, each focusing on
teen couples, which includes the following topics: making thoughtful and
considerate decisions about sex, how becoming sexually active changes a
relationship, possible alternatives to having intercourse, and consequences
of becoming sexually active.
Title: Circles I
Grade Level: Developmentally disabled students
Format: Slide show
Details: 1983, Marklyn P. Champagne and Leslie Walker-Hirsch
Synopsis: Teaching tool designed to help students grasp the concept
of personal space, social distance, and appropriate social/sexual matters.
Title: Crush
Grade Level: 7-8
Format: VHS
Details: 18 minutes, 1989, YWCA
Synopsis: A group of teenage girls discuss crushes,
friendship and love.
Title: Divorce and Young People
Grade Level: 5-8
Format: VHS
Details: 18 minutes, 1985, Gold Coast Film Productions
Synopsis: Realistic vignettes portray typical family
situations to reassure children that they are not alone, that there are ways
of coping with intense frustrations and sorrow and that divorce is not the
end of a family, but regrouping.
Title: Domestic Violence and Young
Adults
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 23 minutes, 1994, Lightbridge Productions
Synopsis: Explores causes of youth dating violence, warning
signs, and how to communicate successfully in a relationship.
Title: Families: Growing and Changing
Grade Level: 1-5
Format: VHS
Details: 15 minutes, 1986, Coronet Films
Synopsis: This film explores the effects that change in a
family can have upon a child. Situations presented include a new baby, a
divorce, and a new step-parent.
Title: Family Teamwork
Grade Level: K-3
Format: VHS
Details: 14 minutes, 1985. Guidance Films
Synopsis: Five friends returning home from school discover
that the rewards of working together as a "family team" are well
worth the necessary effort, that good team work affects the whole family and
a positive attitude leads to better relations with everyone.
Title: A Family to Me
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 28 minutes, 1986, New Day Films
Synopsis: Portraits of four different kinds of families in
contemporary American society.
Title:
First Years Last Forever
Grade Level:
Adults
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 29 min., 1997,
Reiner Foundation
Synopsis: New parents learn how to help their infants reach
their full potential. Information on new brain research and your
child's healthy development.
(2002) Title:
Flirting of Hurting?
Grade Level:
6-9
Format: VHS, Teacher's Guide
Details: 58 min., 1997,
GPN/WGBY-TV
Synopsis: This video provides a safe and comfortable forum for discussing sexual harassment, and helps students distinguish between harmless flirting and offensive behavior. The first two segments target students while the third
segment offers suggestions for educators on how to use the video.
Title: Free To Be...You and Me
See
Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Giving Birth To Your Baby
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 40 min., 1991, Vida Health Communications
Synopsis: Project Future: Teen Pregnancy, Childbirth and
Parenting- A comprehensive, six-part video curriculum designed specifically
for pregnant and parenting adolescents.
3. Giving Birth to Your Baby,
Part 1- 28 min.
4. Giving Birth to Your Baby,
Part 2- 14 min.
(2006)Title:
Grounded for Life: Teenage Pregnancy
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: DVD
Details: 2006, Cambridge Educational, 40 mins.
Synopsis: This DVD illustrates the risk factors,
motivations, and thought processes associated with the teenage pregnancy
problem. Dramatic, thought-provoking footage of single teenage parents
portrays the economic and emotional hardships facing the teen parent.
Examines factors such as the diminishing family unit, lack of
extracurricular activities, incorrect sexual information, and broken lines
of communication
Title: Hate, Homophobia and Schools - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Heroes
and Strangers
Grade Level: 11-12 and adults
Format: VHS
Details: 29 minutes, 1982, West Glen Films
Synopsis: Presents an overview of our society's
expectations of the father's role in America. Stresses the importance of
father-child communications and expressing feelings in relationships.
Title:
Hope Is Not A Method
Grade Level: 7-12,
adults
Format: VHS,
Details: 20
min., 1992, Planned Parenthood of Syracuse, Perennial Education
Synopsis: Compares and
contracts various forms of birth control for sexually active young adults to
help prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. Several forms of birth control, including abstinence,
prescription and over-the-counter options, are examined in terms of
effectiveness, usability, possibility of side effects and obtainability.
Title: How
Can I Tell If I'm Really In Love
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 51 minutes, 1986, Network Publications
Synopsis: This video uses song, dance, and straight talk
from other teens and experts in family life education to stimulate and
educate. It asks and answers such questions as: "How do you know if
it's love?" "What are the differences between intimacy and
sexuality? " "Is sex love?"
Title: Human Sexuality: Values and Choices - See Growth and Development
Title: "I Have AIDS": A Teens' Story - See Disease Prevention and Control
Title: In Real Life: Sexual
Harassment in Schools
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 24 minutes, 1994, Perennial
Synopsis: Sexual harassment in schools -- defining and
developing strategies to prevent.
Title: It Only Takes Once
Grade Level: 7-10
Format: VHS
Details: 26 minutes, 1986, Intermedia
Synopsis: This film is designed to teach pre-teens and
teens about responsible sexual choices: from saying "no" to using
effective contraception. Testimonials from teen parents dispel romantic
myths about teen parenting.
Title:
It's Official
Grade Level: 9-12
Format:
VHS and guide
Details: 19 min, 1997,
Maine Dept. of Human Services
Synopsis: Designed
to be used in discussion groups that help to reduce or prevent the incidence
of out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies. Provides
information to initiate discussions on the personal and financial
consequences of an out-of-wedlock baby.
(2000)Title:
Jessica's Story
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 10 min, 2000, ABC Daytime TV and
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Synopsis: A film designed to promote discussion about
teenage pregnancy and its consequences using the storyline from "One
Life To Live" regarding teenager Jessica Buchanan' pregnancy. To find
out more about the facts, consequences and prevention messages that can help
young people avoid pregnancy visit the National Campaign's web site www.teenpregnancy.org
.
Title:
Little Questions, Big Questions
Grade Level: Teachers,
parents, and adults
Format: VHS
Details: 25 min.,
1993, Rutgers University
Synopsis: This video offers
sound reasons for introducing K-3 children to family life and sexuality
education that is age and developmentally appropriate. A physician,
professor of child development, parents and teachers comment on the
importance of beginning instruction early in order to build a base of
positive, responsible sexual behavior and health.
Title: Living With Parents:
Conflicts, Comforts and Insights
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 54 minutes, 1988, Human Relations Media
Synopsis: Designed to help teenagers identify areas of
conflict with their parents, understand the sources of these conflicts, and
learn techniques for dealing with them. Part 1:
Understanding the Conflict and Part 2: Making It Work.
Title: Lovesick
Grade Level: 7-8
Format: VHS
Details: 15 minutes, 1989, YWCA
Synopsis: A group of teenage boys discuss crushes,
friendship and love.
Title: Man Oh Man - See Growth and Development
(2001)Title:
MTV Public Service Announcements On Adolescent Sexuality Issues
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS
Details: 120 min.,
Synopsis: This tape includes a number of Public Service Announcements aired on MTV. This tape was made with the permission of MTV. Includes clips of the following: "True Life: It Could Be You" a program on teens and young adults with AIDS aired 12/98; "True Life: I Need Sex Rx" a program about getting tested for HIV and other STD's aired 6/99; "Fight For The Right: Sexual Matters" includes episodes on students fighting: for the right to comprehensive sexual education, to prevent sexual harassment, to prevent discrimination against gays & lesbians, aired 9/97; "Fight Back" featuring teens who have experienced sexual abuse, aired 7/95; "True Life: Matthew's Murder" about gay-bashing and the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard, aired 11/98.
Title: No Means No: Avoiding Date Abuse - See Safety and Accident Prevention
Title: Nobody's Home
Grade Level: 4-8
Format: VHS
Details: 20 minutes, 1990, FilmFair Communications
Synopsis: Covers topic of child neglect and stresses that
neglected children need to communicate with adults who care.
Title: On Being Gay: A Conversation with Brian McNaught - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: On Equal Terms - See Consumer Health
(2000) Title:
Parenting Adolescents: Relationships That Work
Grade Level: 6-10
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 22 min., 48 pgs., 1999,
AGC/United Learning
Synopsis: An assertive approach to parenting is
discussed. This method, which is demonstrated in the video, is based
on the concepts of mutual respect and understanding. Both the parent
and the adolescent have to opportunity to express feelings and opinions.
The adolescent is involved in making decisions that affect him or her and is
given a change, with parent's support, to take on responsibilities.
Title:
Perspectives on Abstinence
Grade Level: 7-12, adult
Format: VHS
Details: 29.40 min, 1998, Film Ideas, Inc.
Synopsis: What defines abstinence? Presents discussion
options to help teens properly evaluation their choices regarding sexual
behavior. What can you do or not do and still be considered abstinent.
(2006)Title:
Plain Truth for Maine Youth: A Comprehensive Approach
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: DVD
Details: 2006, Family Planning Association of Maine, 12 mins.
Synopsis: Teen pregnancy is one of the biggest problems facing
adolescents today. "Plain Truth for Maine Youth" reinforces the gold
standard for comprehensive sexuality education; one that is appropriate to
students' age, developmental level, and cultural background; done in a
clear, concise, and professional manner. This DVD is an
excellent discussion starter on a topic that students and adults often find
difficult to talk about.
Title: Playing
It Safe
Grade Level: 10-12
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 9 minutes, 1988, Perennial Education
Synopsis: This video raises the more complex issues young
people face as they are struggling with sexual decision making and
prevention skills. It presents several couples with relationship problems
and offers options to safe or safer solutions.
Title: Postponing Sexual Involvement
Grade Level: 5-7, Parents
Format: VHS
Details: 2 videos - students (39 min.) - parents (29 min.),
1990, Grady Memorial Hospital
Synopsis: 5 sessions to help pre-teens deal with sexual
related pressures. Includes program for parents.
Title: Postponing Sexual Involvement for Young Teens
Grade Level: VHS
Format: 7-9, parents
Details: 1990, 2 videos--students (35 min.)--parents (23 min.),
Grady Memorial Hospital
Synopsis: Five sessions (for each age level) to help pre-teens deal
with sexual related pressure. Includes program for parents.
Title: The Power of Choice: Sex
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 30 minutes, 1989, Network Publications
Synopsis: Michael Pritchard, a juvenile probation officer
turned stand up comic, encourages teenagers to think more critically about
their attitudes and approaches to sexual behavior.
Title:
Raising Healthy Kids: Families Talk About Sexual Health, Part 1
Grade Level: Parents of Young Children
Format: VHS, discussion guide
Details: 1997, Media Works
Synopsis: Video recognizes the importance of communication between
parents and children. Deals with issues of parents being the child's
primary sexuality educator, setting limits for safety, telling the
truth and recognizing teachable moments.
Title:
Raising Healthy Kids: Families Talk About Sexual Health, Part II
Grade Level: Parents of Preadolescents and adolescents
Format: VHS, discussion guide
Details: 1997, Media Works
Synopsis: Video recognizes the importance of communication
between parents and adolescents. Deals with parents being one of their
child's sexuality educator, listening, being approachable,
relationships, setting values, avoiding absolutes and respecting his or her
independence.
Title: Rape Awareness
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 26 minutes, 1993, University of Maine
Synopsis: U Maine athletes discuss myths about rape and
feelings of those involved.
Title: Real Kids Talk About Real Sex
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 64 minutes, 1991, Remember With Video
Synopsis: This video was done by high school students at
the Real School in Windham. It is a good example of what one school in Maine
did with their student leadership grant money.
Title: Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students -
See Personal, Mental & Emotional Health
Title: Sex: A Guide For The Young
Grade Level: 11-12, adult
Format: VHS video, and guide
Details: 18 minutes, 1993, Media Guild
Synopsis: Animation, humor, and a frank approach are used
to introduce a difficult subject-the first
sexual experience.
Title: Sex: A Topic For Conversation
With Dr. Sol Gordon
Grade Level: 9-12 and parents
Format: VHS
Details: 3 videos, 25 minutes each, 1986, Mondell
Productions
Synopsis: The two parent films, "For Parents of Young
Children" and "For Parents of Teenagers" are designed to
teach parents how to be the primary sex educator of their children. These
films would be especially effective for parent meeting which precede school
-sponsored programs. The film "For Teenagers" gives messages to
teens about peer pressure, use of contraception, responsible behavior, and
consequences of sexual activity.
Title: Sexual Orientation - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Sexual Responsibility: A Two
Way Street
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 28 minutes, 1988, Human Relations Media
Synopsis: This two part video illustrates some of the
common roadblocks to making responsible decisions and provides concrete
tactics for dealing with these problems and making responsible sexual
decisions.
(2005)Title: Sexuality
(Relationship Series)
Grade Level: adult special needs
Format: VHS w/lesson guides
Details: 1997, YAI/National Institute for People with
Disabilities, 3 VHS tapes (16, 22, and 34 mins.)
Synopsis: 3-part series about sexual relationships.
Tape #1 follows a couple who have been dating for a year and are now having
a sexual relationship. Tape #2 explores sexual issues and problems that may
come up in a relationship. Tape #3 will help identify which sex acts are
acceptable and which are not legal, healthy, or acceptable.
Title: Smart Sex
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 20 minutes, 1993, University of Maine
Synopsis: U Maine athletes portray situations where choices
about sex are needed.
Title: Sooner Or Later
Grade Level: 10-12
Format: VHS
Details: 25 minutes, 1988, All Media Productions
Synopsis: Deals with understanding one's own values,
pressure to be sexually active, and taking responsibility for one's actions.
Divided into five segments. Topics include: reasons for postponing sexual
intercourse, communicating about sex, getting questions answered, how to say
no, and responsible sexual behavior.
Title: Speaking of Sex...and Persons
With Special Needs
Grade Level: Special needs students and adults
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 1988, James Stanfield & Company
Synopsis: This program includes guidelines and tips for
teaching sexuality education for persons with special needs.
(2007)
Title: Staying Out of the Risky
Zone
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Music CDs, discussion
guide
Details: 1996, Risky Zone Initiatives, 16
songs
Synopsis: 2 music CDs containing 16 songs addressing specific topics
related to sexuality, HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, and abstinence. The songs
are intended to convey information, raise discussion issues, address
attitudes, and supplement other curricula. Songs vary in musical style and
topical content. The discussion guides contains suggestions as to how to
make the songs most effective. Volume one focuses on HIV/AIDS, abstinence,
and media issues. Volume two focuses on safer sexuality, communication,
sexual assault, sexual orientation, and homophobia. This resource loans as a
set.
Title: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Video on Helping
to Reduce the Risk
Grade Level: Parent
Format: VHS
Details: 4 min., National Institution of Health
Synopsis: A short video stressing the importance of placing babies
to sleep on their back to reduce the risk of SIDS.
Title: Taking a Stand - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Taking Charge: Teens Speak Out
About Sexuality and Birth Control
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 22 minutes, 1986, Fanlight Productions
Synopsis: This video interweaves the intimate conversations
of five teenagers and a physician concerning birth control and sexuality. It
looks at the myths and misconceptions many teens hold and the complex
realities they confront in seeking to deal with this new aspect of their
lives. It stresses that accurate information about birth control is the
first step toward making mature decisions.
(2001)Title: Talking About Sex: A Guide for Families
Grade Level: 5-8
Format: VHS, guide, activity book
Details: 30 min., 60 pgs., 16 pgs., 1996, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Synopsis: This kit makes it possible to discuss sex and sexuality comfortable and effectively. It is an ideal springboard for family discussions about puberty, sexuality and relationships. It will help reduce the confusion and anxiety felt about the discussion of sex and educate kids about how to protect themselves and foster positive self-image.
Title: Talking Helps
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS video, and teachers' guide
Details: 29 minutes, 1989, Perennial Education
Synopsis: Covers how talking can help friends who need
support. May be used in suicide prevention/peer facilitator training.
Title: Teaching Family Life
Education: Five Teachers Show You How
Grade Level: Adults
Format: VHS
Details: 40 minutes, 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: Provides educators with concrete skills and
techniques to assist in effectively teaching sexuality education to
elementary through high school level students. Could be used as an in
service tool to introduce new strategies.
Title:
Teen
Contraception
Grade Level: 7-12,
adults
Format: VHS,
Details: 12.52
min., 1996, Film Ideas, Inc.
Synopsis: In a
non-judgmental and comfortable way, two teen hosts assist viewers in
learning about the myths, risks and realities of having sex. While
abstinence is the most desirable means to eliminate the transmission of
STD's and prevention of unwanted pregnancies, factual information on
various forms of preventative contraceptives are presented by rating their
effectiveness and clarifying their proper method of use.
Title:
Teen
Dads
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 18
min., 1996, Altschul Group Corp.
Synopsis: Four teen
fathers who have chosen to play an active role in their children's lives are
profiled in this video about responsibility, hard decisions, and planning
ahead.
Title: Things My Mother Never Told Me - See Growth and Development
(2002) Title:
Truth
About Sex (School Version)
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS, Discussion Guide
Details: 30
min.,
1999, AIMS Multimedia
Synopsis: This program forces teenagers to face the hard-hitting realities of having sex too young, including unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and AIDS by being introduced to several sexually active teenagers, many of whom are having unprotected sex.
Title:
Uh-Oh, No-No Casual Sex
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 6 minutes, 1987, Motown Complete Post Inc.
Synopsis: This is an upbeat music video that could serve as
a springboard for discussion about how visual messages can conflict with
verbal messages. Promotes responsible sexual decisions.
Title: An Uncommon Bond - See Disease Prevention and Control
(2004)Title:
The Universe Within: An Incredible Voyage into the Microworld of the
Human Body
Grade Level: 6-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 60 min., 1995, Beth Hoppe & Bill Lattanzi, WGBH
Educational Foundation
Synopsis: Breathtaking sports photography captures amazing
athletes in action--but the real action happens inside revealed by
microphotography. The program covers three incredible team effort: the
coordination of muscles, bones, heart and circulatory system that makes Mike
Powell the world's greatest long jumper; the digestive dynamo that turns a
simple sandwich eaten by five-time Olympic gold medalist, Bonnie Blair, into
raw energy for a blistering sprint down the ice; and the ultimate event--the
development of a new human life inside track star, Karen Hatchett.
Title: "Wait... Love Takes
Time" and "I'm Not Ready"
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 1 min., Maine Department of Human Services
Synopsis: Two 30-second commercials with local settings and
teenagers sending the message, 'sex can wait'.
(2002) Title: What is Love? What is Sex?
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, Resource Guide
Details: 28 min., 2000, Human Relations Media
Synopsis: The distinction between love and sex can be problematic for the adolescent who is newly capable of understanding both concepts and often confuses the two. This video consists of personal interviews with teenagers who have made a variety of choices regarding love and sexual activity. Students will identify with their struggles and will learn how to deal with this contemporary adolescent rite of passage.
Title:
What
Works: Sexuality Education
Grade Level: Teachers
Format: VHS
Details: 1997,
Media Works, Inc.
Synopsis: Briefly
discusses 4 comprehensive Sexuality Education Programs: Reduce the
Risk, Get Real About Aids, Becoming a Responsible Teen, and Be Proud! Be
Responsible!; and 3 Abstinence till Marriage Programs: Choosing the Best,
Teen-aid, and Sex Respect. Disproves claims of effectiveness by
"Abstinence Only" curricula while stressing the need to provide
teens with the skills necessary to handle any sexual situation that may
arise.
Title: When Sex Means Trouble - See Safety and Accident Prevention
Title: When Your Parents Divorce: The
Storm's Inside
Grade Level: K-3
Format: VHS
Details: 21 minutes, 1989, Encyclopedia Britannica
Educational Corporation
Synopsis: This program addresses a serious problem with
humor and sensitivity from the vantage point of a child.
Title: Your New Baby, Your New life
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 60 min., 1991, Vida Health Communications
Synopsis: Project Future: Teen Pregnancy, Childbirth and
Parenting- A comprehensive, six-part video curriculum designed specifically
for pregnant and parenting adolescents.
5. Your New Baby- 32 min.
6. Your New life- 26 min.
Title: Your Pregnancy, Your Plan
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 2-21 min. segments, 1991, Vida Health
Communications
Synopsis: Project Future: Teen Pregnancy, Childbirth and
Parenting- A comprehensive, six-part video curriculum designed specifically
for pregnant and parenting adolescents.
1. Your Pregnancy- 22 min.
2. Your Plan- 21 min.
(2006)Title:
B.A.R.T. = Becoming a Responsible Teen; An HIV Risk-Reduction
Program for Adolescents
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 614.5 Sai242b
Format: Book
Details: 2005, Janet S. St. Lawrence, ETR Associates, 302 pgs.
Synopsis:
B.A.R.T. helps teens clarify their own values about sexual activity; make
decisions that will help them avoid becoming infected with HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS; and learn skills to put their decisions into action. In
general, the information about HIV and the skill-building activities taught
in B.A.R.T. are appropriate for all adolescents. Students will learn:
essential information about HIV and AIDS, ways to handle social and sexual
pressures, ways to communicate assertively with friends and potential sex
partners, refusal skills, negotiation skills, and condom use skills.
Replaces earlier edition.
(2008)
Title: Bodies, Birth
& Babies: Sexuality Education in Early Childhood Programs
Grade Level: Pre K-K
Call Number: HERC 613.9 B762b
Format: Book
Details: 1989, Peggy Brick, Center for
Family Life Education, 38 pgs.
Synopsis: Young children are alive with curiosity about how their
bodies work, why boys and girls are different, and how babies grow and are
born. Positive responses lay the foundation for sexual health and
self-esteem by helping children feel good about their bodies, good about
being a boy or a girl, and good about adults who are willing to help them
figure things out. While parents are the primary sex educators of their
children, schools and parents must be partners in helping children grow up.
This manual acknowledges that staff in early childhood programs also play an
important role in the sexual learning of young children. SA Healthy
Foundations.
Title: Caring, Loving, and Sexuality
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: Book
Details: 1 984, Gilda Gussin and Anne Buxbaum, Management
Sciences for Health
Synopsis: Provides activities and information to promote
responsible decision making about sex.
Title: Comprehensive School Health
Education: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies (4th edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 2005
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 2005, Linda Meeks, Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company,
1050 pgs.
Synopsis: 4th edition.
In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
Title: Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally
Awesome Teaching Strategies (2nd Edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 1996
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 835 pgs., 2nd Edition, 1996, Linda Meeks,
Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company
Synopsis: In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
(2001)Title:
Death In The Family: Orphans Of The HIV Epidemic
Grade Level: 9-12, adults
Format: Book
Details: 157 pgs., 1993, Carol Levine, United Hospital Fund
Synopsis: Based on the nation's first conference about the orphans of AIDS, this book describes the problem from the perspectives of
epidemiology, law, mental health, program development, advocacy and personal experience. Pointing the way toward solutions, this guide presents policy options and service models and includes a directly of organizations in the New York City area that provide social and support services to children, parents and other affected family members.
Title: Did the Sun Shine Before You Were Born? - See Growth and Development
Title: Don't Hurt Laurie - See Safety and Accident Prevention
Title: Dynamics of Relationships -
For Pre-Teens & Young People
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC
302.3 K86d
Format: Book, teacher's manual
Details: 1988, Patricia Kramer, Equal Partners
Synopsis: A prevention program designed to allow students
to discuss, explore and share feelings about many of the issues that they
are struggling with.
Title: Dynamics of Relationships -
For Teens & Young Adults
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book, teacher's manual
Details: 1988, Patricia Kramer, Equal Partners
Synopsis: A prevention program designed to allow students
to discuss, explore and share feelings about many of the issues that they
are struggling with.
Title: Friends For Life: Featuring
Amy Wilson
Grade Level: 3-6
Call Number: HERC Ai425
Format: Book
Details: 1988, Barbara Aeillo and Jeffrey Shulman,
Twenty-First Century Books
Synopsis: A literature based book from the Kids on the
Block series dealing with HIV infection.
(2008)
Title: Healthy
Foundations: Developing Positive Policies and Programs Regarding Young
Children's Learning about Sexuality
Grade Level: Pre K-K
Call Number: HERC 613.9 M7648h
Format: Book
Details: 1993, Sue Montfort, Center for
Family Life Education, 22 pgs.
Synopsis: Young children are alive with curiosity about how their
bodies work, why boys and girls are different, and how babies grow and are
born. Positive responses lay the foundation for sexual health and
self-esteem by helping children feel good about their bodies, good about
being a boy or a girl, and good about adults who are willing to help them
figure things out. While parents are the primary sex educators of their
children, schools and parents must be partners in helping children grow up.
This manual acknowledges that staff in early childhood programs also play an
important role in the sexual learning of young children. SA Bodies,
Birth & Babies.
(2003)Title: Healthy Maine 2010: Longer and Healthier Lives (See New Resources, Community Health Education)
(2005)Title: Healthy Teens:
Success in High School and Beyond
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 613.0433 M127h
Format: Book
Details: 1997. Alice R. McCarthy, Bridge Communications,
114 pgs.
Synopsis: Book for parents of adolescent children.
Covers such topics as developmental and social issues facing teens today,
helping parents understand the role they play in the lives of their
teenagers, and providing information on the importance of parental
involvement in the education of their adolescent children.
Title: Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price
Grade Level: 9-12, adults
Call Number: HERC 306.76 B626
Format: Book
Details: 1992, 308 pgs., Beacon Press, Warren J. Blumenfeld
Synopsis: The contributors of this anthology explore how
homophobia colludes with sexism by forcing people into rigid gender roles;
how homophobia causes unnecessary pain and alienation in family
relationships; how it works against health-care policy and art
administration that would benefit all members of society; and how homophobia
leaves the promise of religious institutions unfulfilled.
Title:
Involving Males in Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 613.9 In8
Format: Book
Details: 176 pgs.,
1997, The California Wellness Foundation and the Urban Institute
Synopsis: This guide is
intended for planners who wish to implement programs involving males in
teenage pregnancy prevention. The
three main purposes are to dispel myths about target populations by
providing a description of the male partners of potential teenage mothers,
to identify established pregnancy prevention programs that have successfully
involved males in, and to distill practical lessons from the experiences of
these exemplary programs for others still at the fledging stage.
Title: Methods of Contraception -
Introducing Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
Grade Level: 9-12 and adults
Call Number: HERC 613.9 P692
Format: Large flip chart
Details: Mary McGovern, Department of Health, Education and
Welfare
Synopsis: Large illustrations of reproductive anatomy and
physiology, as well as contraception methods for use in classroom
discussion.
Title: Much More Than Sexuality: Listening to 70 Gay
People About Their Lives
Grade Level: 9-12, adult
Format: Book
Details: 1996, 324 pgs., Audenreed Press, Liz & John Sherblom
Synopsis: Personal portraits of 70 gay and lesbian people set
against the backdrop of our society's lack of acceptance of variations in
sexual orientation. These are stories told from the heart by a few of
the people behind the stereotypes of homosexuality.
(2008)
Title: Right From the Start:
Guidelines for Sexuality Issues Birth to Five Years
Grade Level: Pre K-K
Call Number: HERC 613.9 Ea769r
Format: Book
Details: 1995, Early Childhood Sexuality
Education Task Force, 66 pgs.
Synopsis: From the moment of birth, children begin to learn about
love, touch, and relationships. Their experiences, impressions, and
observations form the foundation of their future sexual attitudes and
decisions. This book acknowledges and builds upon the fact that this
learning process is already taking place in order to help parents and
caregivers make children's early learning a positive and productive
experience.
(2000)
Title: Reducing the risk : building skills to prevent pregnancy, STD & HIV
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 B282r
Format: Book
Details: 240 pgs., 1996, Richard P. Barth,
ETR Associates
Synopsis: The major focus of this curriculum is to help teens learn the communication skills to prevent pregnancy and the transmission of STD's. It was developed with the specific intent of influencing adolescent sexual and drug behaviors.
(2000)Title: Sexual
Harassment and Teens : a program for positive change : case studies, activities, questionnaires, laws, guidelines, policies, procedures, resources, and more
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 St81s
Format: Book
Details: 149 pgs., 1992, Susan Strauss, Pamela
Espeland,
Free Spirit Publishing
Synopsis: This comprehensive program brings people together to explore and understand the causes and
consequences of sexual harassment and sexual violence.
(2006)Title:
Sexuality and Responsibility- Teacher Edition
Grade Level: 9-12 teachers
Call Number: HERC 372.3 H7452s
Format: Book
Details: 2004, Josh R. Mann & Robert Willson III, Holt, Rinehart, &
Winston, 118 pgs.
Synopsis: Teacher's edition for "Sexuality and Responsibility"
text. Chapters include: Building Responsible Relationships, Risks of
Adolescent Sexual Activity, HIV and AIDS, Family Planning and Your Life
Goals, and Protecting Yourself from STDs.
(2001)Title: Special Education: Secondary F.L.A.S.H: family
life and sexual health a curriculum for grades 7-12
Grade Level: 7-12 special education
Format: Book
Details: 301pgs, 1991, Jane Stangle, Seattle-King County
Department of Public Health, Family-Planning Program, Center for Disease
Control, Seattle Public Schools
Synopsis: This curriculum is designed for use in special
education and mainstreamed classrooms.
(2007)
Title:
Teaching About Sexuality and HIV
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 H3584t
Format: Book
Details: 1996, Evonne Hedgepeth & Joan Helmich, New York University
Press, 294 pgs.
Synopsis: A
book for classroom teachers and community health educators who specialize in
teaching about sexual health, HIV prevention, and family planning.
Title:
When Sex is the Subject
Grade Level: Adults
Call Number: HERC 372.3 W696w
Format: Book
Details: 1991, Pamela M. Wilson, ETR Associates, 102 pgs.
Synopsis: In this handbook, the author explains that the
key to effective sexuality education for young children (age 10 and under)
is not just what you say, but how you say it. A positive, reassuring
attitude is the "music" that enhances your carefully chosen words. This book
shows teachers, parents, and other caregivers how to use this "music" to
discuss sexuality with sensitivity, comfort, and confidence.
Title:
When Teens Have Sex: Issues and Trends
Grade Level: Adults
Call Number: HERC 306.7
W574
Format: Book
Details: 158 pgs., 1998, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Synopsis: Provides a state-by-state breakdown of teen
pregnancy statistics. Information regarding demographics, sexual
behavior, health and fertility is documented for each state.
(2007) Title:
Words Can Work: When Talking with Kids About Sexual Health
Grade Level: 7-12, parents
Format: Book
Call Number: HERC 613.9
B5813w
Details: 2004, Jeanne Blake, Blakeworks, Inc., 114
pgs
Synopsis: Book is written primarily to help parents
understand their role as sexuality educators. But may be used by all who
work with young people and families as a means to negotiate the challenge of
talking to children about sexuality and their emergence into adulthood.
Combines conversations with youngsters, relevant information, and
commentary.
(2007)
Title: Interactive
Nights Out!
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Computer Program
Details: 2002, Virtual Experience Interactive Learning Software
(VEILS), CD-ROM
Synopsis: Not a DVD, rather an interactive CD-ROM. Students are
placed in a virtual situation, and then are required to make decisions as
the scenario progresses. Scenarios designed for user to make decisions about
sex, relationships, beer, marijuana, and more. Provides the benefits of
experimental learning in the safety of the classroom- replaces "teaching by
telling" with "learning by doing".
(2001)Title:
BARN (Body Awareness Resource Network) Multimedia Series 1
Grade Level: 6-9
Format: 4 cds, 1 guide & 1 student portfolio
Details: Macintosh/Windows,1998, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: Developed to provide adolescents with the information and decision-making skills needed to maintain positive lifestyles. For those already engaged in risky behavior, presents non-judgmental behavioral change strategies.
CD titles in series 1: Alcohol and other drugs 1 ; Smoking ; Stress management; Body management.
(2001)Title:
BARN (Body Awareness Resource Network) Multimedia Series 2
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: 4 cds, 1 guide & 1 student portfolio
Details: Macintosh/Windows, 2000, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: Developed to provide adolescents with the information and decision-making skills needed to maintain positive lifestyles. For those already engaged in risky behavior, presents non-judgmental behavioral change strategies.
CD titles in series 2: Alcohol & other dugs 2; HIV/AIDS; Human sexuality 1; Human sexuality 2.
Title: Choosing Abstinence
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 306.7
Z6i & HERC 306.7 Z6i workbook
Format: Book, Student Workbook
Details: 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: Part of the Contemporary Health Series:
Into Adolescence. Each module is a teaching unit that can be
part of a comprehensive program. This unit is designed to give
students the skills and information necessary to make wise choices about
postponing sexual behavior and establishing positive and rewarding
friendships in its place.
Title: Communicating in Families (Teenage Health Teaching
Modules)
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 302.3 C7375
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 1983, 76 pgs., Educational Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: This unit is designed to provide students with some
understandings of the dynamics of their inter-actional patterns with their
families.
Title: Coping with Sexual Pressure
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 306.7
Ab195c
Format: Book
Details: 89 pgs., 1989, Network Publications
Synopsis: Part of the Contemporary Health Series:
Entering Adulthood. Each module is a teaching unit that can be
part of a comprehensive program. This unit is designed to present
sexual abstinence as a viable, positive choice for teenagers.
Title: Entering Adulthood: Coping with Sexual Pressure
(Contemporary Health Series)
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 306.7
Format: Book
Details: 1989, 89 pgs., Network Publications, Nancy Abbey and
Elizabeth Raptis
Synopsis: This unit is designed to present sexual abstinence as a
viable, positive choice for teenagers.
Title: Entering Adulthood: Living in Relationships
(Contemporary Health Series)
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 302.3 H861L
Format: Book
Details: 1989, 89 pgs., Network Publications, Betty M. Hubbard
Synopsis: This unit is designed to give students a realistic
prospective on what it takes to develop, maintain, and when necessary, break
off relationships.
Title: 5/6 F.L.A.S.H: a curriculum supplement in family
life and sexual health for grades 5 and 6
Grade Level: 5-6
Call Number: HERC 613.9 R278f
Format: Curriculum Supplement
Details: 1985, Network Publications
Synopsis: Activities included in this curriculum supplement
can easily be integrated into an existing health education curriculum.
Concepts covered include: family life, self-esteem, sex roles, friendship,
decision-making, sexual abuse, puberty, HIV/AIDS, the reproductive system
and pregnancy.
Title: F.L.A.S.H. (Family Life and Sexual Health) (Special
Education: Secondary)
Grade Level: 7-12, special education
Format: Curriculum notebook
Details: 1991, 301 pgs., Seattle-King County Department of
Public Health, Family Planning/STD Program, Jane Stangle
Synopsis: This curriculum is designed for use in special education
and mainstreamed classrooms.
Title: Family and Community Health Through Care Giving - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Family Life Education
Grade Level: 4-6
Call Number: HERC 305.2
D468f
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1982, Network Publications
Synopsis: This family life education program includes
activities that can compliment the comprehensive health education
curriculum. The content areas addressed include: Family life education,
personal health, growth and development, prevention and control of disease
and disorders.
Title: Family Life Education
Grade Level: K-3, 7-12
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1982, Network Publications
Synopsis: This family life education program includes
activities that can compliment the comprehensive health education
curriculum. The content areas addressed include: Family life education,
personal health, growth and development, prevention and control of disease
and disorders.
Title:
Filling the Gaps: Hard To Teach Topics in Sexuality Education
Grade Level: 6-12, adults
Call Number: HERC 613.9
F483
Format: Book
Details: 183 pgs., 1998,
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Synopsis: Manual designed to
supplement existing sexuality education programs.
Covers the following areas: abstinence, condoms, diversity, pregnancy
options, safer sex, sexual behavior, sexual identity and orientation,
sexuality and society.
Title:
Growing Into Healthy Sexuality
Grade Level: 6-8
Call Number: HERC 613.9
G919
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 207 pgs., 1998
Education Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: This unit is
designed to provide adolescents with opportunities to develop a positive
view of sexuality, to acquire the information they need to take care of
their sexual health, to respect and value themselves and others, and to
learn skills to make healthy decisions now and in the future.
Title: Globe Health Program - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Health Education Teaching Ideas - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Here We Go ... Watch Me Grow - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Individual and Family Health:
a curriculum guide for instruction in individual and family health
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 613
In25
Format: Curriculum Guide
Details: Home Economics Education Unit, California
Department of Education
Synopsis: A curriculum guide for instruction in individual
and family health to better prepare students to function as informed and
effective citizens.
(2003)Title: Intimacy Is For Everyone
Grade Level: Teachers
Call Number: HERC 613.9 P448
Format: Book
Details: 1988. Bob McDermott and Barbara Petrich, Planned
Parenthood
Synopsis: Sex educator's guide to teaching intimacy skills.
Title: Learning About Family Life
Grade Level: K-3
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1992, Rutgers University
Synopsis: This well illustrated curriculum includes a
teacher's manual and a student workbook/journal. Applicable to guidance and
language arts, the curriculum covers a variety of family life issues
including loss, pregnancy and birth, families, reproductive anatomy and
sexual abuse prevention. Recommended for those covering these sensitive
issues with early elementary students.
Title: Life Horizons II: Sex Education for persons with
Special Needs
Grade Level: Special Education
Format: Curriculum
Details: 2 DVDs , guidebook,
lesson cards; 1991; James Stanfield, Co.
Synopsis: A teaching program on sex education designed for
persons of all intellectual levels who have problems in learning. Could be
used with the developmentally, intellectually, emotionally and mentally
disabled. Could also be helpful to the physically disabled, such as hearing
impaired. 2 DVDs Pt. 1- The Physiological and Emotional
Aspects of Being Male and Female, Pt. 2- The Moral, Social, and Legal
Aspects of Sexuality. This is a DVD
set.
Title: Life Management Skills - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title:
Parenting Thru Play, An Interactive Parent Education Curriculum
Grade Level: 9-12,
adults
Format: Curriculum
Details: 184 pgs., 1997, Judith Fay King & Lori
Beth Weintraub
Synopsis: Interactive, ready-to-use curriculum that meets
the needs of young parents and hard to reach parents. Topics covered are
health and safety, child development, nutrition, discipline and learning
thru play.
Title: Promoting Health in Families
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613
P945
Format: Book
Details: 81 pgs., 1982, Educational Development Center,
Inc.
Synopsis: This module is designed to promote the idea that
everyone is a part of a family and to help students feel comfortable in the
family setting they are in, not matter what the configuration. Also to
help students recognize that health is a concern at every stage of the life
cycle and the knowledge about good health practices and behaviors can
enhance well-being at each stage.
Title: Promoting Healthy Sexuality
Grade Level: K-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-12 (order by grade level
below)
Call Number: HERC 613.9 Pr945 + grade level
Format: Curriculum (located on print stacks)
Details: Family Planning Association of Maine
Synopsis: Includes scope and sequence chart and classroom
activities for sexuality education. Order by grade level below:
|
Promoting Healthy Sexuality |
||
|
Grade Level |
Call Number |
Year Published |
|
K-3 |
HERC 613.9 Pr945 |
1999 |
|
K-3 |
HERC 613.9 Pr945 |
1999 |
|
4-6 |
HERC 613.9 Pr945 |
2002 |
|
7-8 |
HERC 613.9 Pr9452 |
2005 |
|
9-12 |
HERC 613.9 Pr9452 |
2004 |
(2000)Title: Reducing the
risk : building skills to prevent pregnancy, STD & HIV
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 B282r workbook
Format: Student Workbook
Details: 60 pgs., 1996, Richard P. Barth, ETR
Associates
Synopsis: Student workbook to accompany "Reducing the
risk : building skills to prevent pregnancy, STD & HIV."
Title: Relationships and Communication Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 302.3 T612r
Format: Book
Details: 109 pgs., 1993, Center for Applied Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 ready to use activities exploring topics such as family relationships, sibling rivalry, how to make friends, split-level communications, assertiveness and aggressiveness, dating, understanding divorce and popularity.
(2001)Title:
Safe Choices Guide: HIV and Other STD Policies and Prevention Programs for Youth In High-Risk Situations
Grade Level: Adults
Call Number: HERC 614.5 H641s
Format: Book
Details: 180 pgs., 1994, National Network of Runaway and Youth Services
Synopsis: This manual was designed to assist both community-based agency administrators and line staff in the implementation of HIV and other STD polices and prevention programs.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Books, Workbooks
Details: 1998, ETR Associates
Synopsis: A curriculum designed to reduce the number of
students engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse by reducing the number of
students who begin or have sexual intercourse during their high school years,
and by increasing use of condoms and other methods of protection among
students who do have sex. Please order by full title:
| Titles: |
|---|
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Implementation Manual |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 1 |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 1 Student Workbook |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 1 Peer Leader Workbook |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 2 |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 2 Student Workbook |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Level 2 Peer Leader Workbook |
| Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and Pregnancy - Peer Leader Training Guide |
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Implementation Manual
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book
Details: 205 pgs., 1998, ETR
Associates & Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development,
University of Texas - Houston
Synopsis: The practical guide to implementing all
components of the Safer Choices program, including selected training
activities, sample forms and procedures.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 1
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book
Details: 283 pgs.,1998, Fetro, Barth &
Coyle, ETR Associates & Center for Health Promotion, Research &
Development, University of Texas - Houston
Synopsis: Levels 1 & 2 are a 20 lesson course
taught over 2 successive school years to empower students to avoid HIV, other
STD and unplanned pregnancy.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 1 Peer Leader Workbook
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Workbook
Details: 35 pgs., 1998, ETR Associates &
Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development, University of Texas -
Houston
Synopsis: Workbook for Peer Leader to use with Level 1
of Safer Choices curriculum.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 1 Student Workbook
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Workbook
Details: 43 pgs., 1998, ETR Associates &
Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development, University of Texas -
Houston
Synopsis: Workbook for student to use with Level 1 of
Safer Choices curriculum.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 2
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book
Details: 271 pgs., 1998, Fetro & Coyle,
ETR Associates & Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development,
University of Texas - Houston
Synopsis: Levels 1 & 2 are a 20 lesson course
taught over 2 successive school years to empower students to avoid HIV, other
STD and unplanned pregnancy.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 2 Peer Leader Workbook
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Workbook
Details: 39 pgs., 1998, ETR Associates &
Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development, University of Texas -
Houston
Synopsis: Workbook for Peer Leader to use with Level 1
of Safer Choices curriculum.
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Level 2 Student Workbook
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Workbook
Details: 43 pgs.,1998, ETR Associates &
Center for Health Promotion, Research & Development, University of Texas -
Houston
Synopsis: Workbook for student to use with Level 2 of
Safer Choices curriculum
Title: Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD and
Pregnancy - Peer Leader Training Guide
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book
Details: 145 pgs., 1998, Karin K. Coyle,
ETR Associates & Center for Health Promotion, Research &
Development, University of Texas - Houston
Synopsis: Training activities to prepare in-class peer
leaders to help with the Safer Choices curriculum lessons.
Title: Sex Can Wait: Middle School
Program
Grade Level: 7-9
Call Number: HERC 613.9 C812s
Format: Curriculum guide
b 42 p, 1994, ETR Associates
Synopsis: Abstinence-based sexuality curriculum. Includes
personal development, relationship, and decision making.
Title: Sex Can Wait: Upper Elementary
Program
Grade Level: 5-6
Format: Curriculum guide
Details: 360 pp, 1994, ETR Associates
Synopsis: Teaching refusal and negotiation skills. Also
discusses self-esteem, decision making, and communication.
(2001)Title: Sex Education Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 T612s
Format: Book
Details: 141 pgs., 1993, Patricia Rizzo Toner, Center for
Applied Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 high interest activities focusing on the male and female reproductive systems, various methods of contraception including abstinence, AIDS, the immune system, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, childbirth, fetal development and more.
(2001)Title:
Sexual Violence in Teenage Lives: A Prevention Curriculum
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: Book
Details: 147 pgs., 1995, Cyprian, McLaughlin,
Quint, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Synopsis: This curriculum teaches students how to: recognize sexual violence including unwanted poking, pinching, name calling, pressure to have sex and rape; reduce the risks of becoming involved in a sexually violent relationship; get help if they are violated; establish and maintain relationships that are both healthy and pleasurable.
Title: Sexuality Decision-Making
Books for Teens
Three titles include:
(1) Taking
Chances With Sex, (2) Too Soon For Sex?, (3) Don't Let It Get Around
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: Books, teacher's guide
Details: 1990, Kathleen Middleton, Network Publications
Synopsis: These interactive books allow students to
"practice" decision-making. They are based on current important
topics: sexual abstinence, birth control and prevention of sexually
transmitted disease. The teacher's guide provides ideas for using the
Sexuality Decision-Making Books.
Title:
Socialization and Sex Education
Grade Level: Special Education
Call Number: HERC 613.9 R762s
Format: Curriculum
Details: 151 pgs.,
1991, James Stanfield Company, Inc.
Synopsis: A comprehensive
curriculum based on practices demonstrated to be effective for individuals
with learning difficulties and delays. It was written to help
individuals increase their understanding of themselves - socially,
psychologically and physically. Specific objectives and activities
have been coordinated with Life Horizons I & II.
(2001)Title: Special Education: Secondary F.L.A.S.H: family life and sexual health a curriculum for grades
7-12
Grade Level: 7-12 special education
Format: Book
Details: 301pgs, 1991, Jane Stangle, Seattle-King County Department
of Public Health, Family-Planning Program, Center for Disease Control,
Seattle Public Schools
Synopsis: This curriculum is designed for use in special education and mainstreamed classrooms.
Title:
Steps Towards Adolescence
Grade Level: 4-7
Format: Binder
Details: 208
pgs.,1999, Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania
Synopsis: A comprehensive 15
session, sexual health curriculum, that aims to foster attitudes of comfort,
respect and appreciation for human sexuality, enhance knowledge about
puberty and reproduction, increase awareness of the consequences of
decisions and behaviors and develop decision-making, negotiation and
conflict management skills.
Title: Taking Chances With Sex
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9
D492t
Format: Book
Details: 1989, Christine DeVault, Network Publications
Synopsis: This interactive book allows students to
"practice" decision-making. Presents accurate information about
birth control methods and models a visit to a family planning clinic.
Title: Teacher's Guide to Abortion
Grade Level: Teachers
Call Number: HERC 618.8
T221
Format: Booklet
Details: 1983, Abortion Education and Referral Service
Synopsis: This publication is designed to aid teachers who
wish to present abortion information to their students. Provides accurate
and factual information in order that young people more fully understand
abortion.
Title: Teaching Ideas for Using Sexuality Decision-Making
Books For Teens
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9
M584t
Format: Book
Details: 1990, Kathleen Middleton, Network Publications
Synopsis: These interactive books allow students to
"practice" decision-making. They are based on current important
topics: sexual abstinence, birth control and prevention of sexually
transmitted disease. The teacher's guide provides ideas for using the
Sexuality Decision-Making Books.
Title: Teaching Safer Sex, "New"
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 B762t
Format: Binder
Details: 129 pgs.,1998, Peggy Brick, Center for Family Life Education Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern NJ
Synopsis: Guidelines and outlines activities to teach safer sex. Encourages more thoughtful attitudes, decisions and choices toward promoting sexual health. Focuses on disease prevention.
Title: Teen Sexual Behavior
Grade Level: 6-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9 B457t
Format: Book
Details: 1988, Linda Berne and Pamela Wild, Association for
the Advancement of Health Ed.
Synopsis: A leader's resource of practical teaching
strategies that address teenage sexuality topics such as preventing teenage
pregnancy, developing life management skills and enhancing communication.
Title: Too Soon For Sex?
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.9
D492t
Format: Book
Details: 1989, Christine DeVault, Network Publications
Synopsis: This interactive book allows students to
"practice" decision-making. Presents postponing sexual involvement
as a positive choice for high school teenagers.
Title: Understanding Health - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Understanding Reproduction, Birth and Contraception - See Growth and Development
Title: We Are A Family: children's
activities in family living
Grade Level: K-3
Call Number: HERC 306.8
M427w
Format: Book (Activity based)
Details: 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: The concepts in this book are intended to help
children develop a basic understanding of the family and it's purpose.
Activities included can complement any already established health education
curriculum.
Title: When I'm Grown - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
(2005)Title: CIRCLES I:
Intimacy & Relationships
Grade Level: Special Education
Format: Teaching Kit
Details: 12 VHS tapes, 1 lesson guide, 1 activity kit; 1993; James Stanfield, Co.
Synopsis: CIRCLES program uses special educational
techniques to teach functionally challenged students the social sexual
concepts of personal space, social distance, and social/sexual concepts. 3
units include: Relationships, Relationship Building, and Topics in Sexuality
Education. Flexible program allows each teacher to personalize for their
class needs.
Title: Anatomically Correct Models
Grade Level: 4-12 (depending on presentation)
Format: Reproductive models
Details: Includes five different models
Synopsis: The following models are included in this kit:
-Female Pelvic Model (Vagina,
Uterus, Rectum)
-Female Reproductive Organ Model
(cross section view)
-Male Reproductive Organ Model
(cross section view)
-Erect Penis Model
-6 Month Fetus Model (in Uterus)
It is recommended that teachers
follow their district policy and have
administrative support before
using these models in the classroom.
Title: Homophobia
Grade Level: 8-12, teachers, adults
Format: Game
Details: 1988
Synopsis: Can be used as a training tool or classroom game -
designed to help people explore their feelings about homosexuality.
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