Unit 8 — Health, Sexuality & Safety

Overview

This unit returns to the body at a turning point, now with the honesty and agency high school demands, building on Grade 9’s sexual and reproductive health and its help-seeking work. Learners analyze the risks and responsibilities of sexual activity, including contraception and preventing infections, using accurate information, and evaluate sources of health information — online, peer, and marketing — for accuracy and bias. Every body, every pace, and every family’s way of living is honored; learners of every gender and sexuality, and every form of family and relationship, are seen and included without hierarchy. The body is taught with dignity, never shame, and questions are met with accurate information and care, not fear. Disabled and neurodivergent learners are full participants, not exceptions: disabled bodies are taught as bodies with the same rights to accurate sexual-health information, consent, contraception, and care, and no body or pace is treated as lesser. Key vocabulary, the consent conditions, and the source questions can be offered in learners’ home languages, and every lesson has a voice-and-paper path that needs no device, no wealth, and no ability to see or write.

Essential questions

• How do I analyze the risks and responsibilities of sexual activity, including contraception and preventing infections, with accurate information?
• How do I evaluate sources of health information — online, peer, and marketing — for accuracy and bias?

Lessons