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The unit explores the issues about sexuality which all adolescents face as they travel through puberty in this society. It then looks at specific cultural issues for African-American and Puerto Rican adolescents since they comprise the majority of the students in the New Haven Public Schools. The lesson plans include: an activity for recognizing and appreciating the diversity of the group of students in your class and their families; a questionnaire about their ethnic backgrounds and their family’s or their culture’s traditions about sexual events such as puberty and marriage; and a game to identify the information and misinformation of the students about human sexuality and reproduction.
(Recommended for any Human Sexuality course, grades 6-12; Social Development Courses: Human Growth and Development, grade 6; Human Sexuality: PE, grade 8; and Life Skills, grades 9 & 10)
Sexuality Adolescence American Ethnicity Afro-American Attitudes Puerto Rican Human