MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM

LESSON 1  BestLife

Students will be able to:​

• Explain what Project Best Life is.

• Understand what is expected throughout Project Best Life.

LESSON 2   BestLife Foundations 

Students will be able to:​

• List the five areas of health.

• Explain how the five areas of health affect each other.

• Explain why social connection is a human’s deepest need.

• Explain why someone’s values can affect their decisions.

• Summarize at least two family values, and explain why they are important.

LESSON 3   Healthy Self-Relationship 

Students will be able to:​

• Explain the importance of having a healthy self-relationship.

• Assess their self-relationship with principles learned.

• Devise a plan to improve their self-relationship based on assessment.

LESSON 4   Puberty 

Students will be able to:​

• Define puberty.

• Explain how puberty begins.

• Identify changes in physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual/moral maturation during puberty.

• Describe how to best care for their personal hygiene during and after puberty.

LESSON 5   Human Anatomy and Reproduction 

Students will be able to:​

• Identify male and female reproductive anatomy using scientific names.

• Describe the basic process of human reproduction using scientific names.

• Describe proper personal hygiene and care for myself during menstruation. (females only)

LESSON 6   Online Safety & Healthy                                Relationships with Others 

Students will be able to:​

• Define sexting.

• Describe possible legal consequences of sexting.

• Explain how to be safe if approached online.

• Describe where to get help for online bullying.

• Categorize behaviors and characteristics in a friendship as healthy or unhealthy.

• Assess friendships and sort the healthy from the unhealthy.

• Identify a healthy relationship from an unhealthy relationship.

LESSON 7   Boundaries and Refusal Skills

Students will be able to:​

• Define abstinence.

• Give two examples of the benefit of choosing abstinence from sexual activity.

• Define sexual activity, (i.e. physical intimacy and sexual behavior).

• Formulate personal boundaries and limits with respect to self.

• Describe and correctly demonstrate at least one verbal refusal skill.

• Describe and correctly demonstrate at least one non-verbal refusal skill.

LESSON 8   Sexually Transmitted Diseases 

Students will be able to:​

• Accurately assess the risks of contracting an STD.

• Conclude, with evidence, that abstinence is the only 100% sure way to avoid an STD due to sexual activity.

• Explain the meaning of “STD”.

• Identify the four modes of STD transmission.

• Describe risky behaviors, such as sexual activity, that increase the risk of contracting a STD.

• Explain where to find accurate information and assistance about STDs in the community.

LESSON 9   The Dangers of Pornography                                   & Challenges of Teenage Pregnancy 

Students will be able to:​

• List three damaging effects of pornography.

• Explain how to get help in case of pornography addiction.

• List at least three challenges of going to school and/or starting a career with the responsibility of a child(ren).

• Describe the three ways to reduce their risk of living in poverty.

• Explain two ways that parents can responsibly terminate parental rights after the baby is born.

LESSON 10   BestLife Review 

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