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CatchingOn STD/HIV PREVENTION PROJECT EDUCATION TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR YEARS 9 AND 10 Acknowledgments The Catching On Teaching and Learning Activities have been developed by the STD/AIDS Prevention Education Project of the Victorian Department of Education & Training using funding from the Department of Human Services and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services (now the Department of Health and Ageing). Its purpose is to support the implementation of the Department of Education & Training’s policy on STI/HIV education. The activities have been written by the Senior Project Officers Debbie Ollis and Peter Roberts with assistance from the STD/AIDS Reference Group, with an update and revision by consultant Jennifer Walsh of True Stories in 2003. STD/AIDS Prevention Education Project Reference Group The following organisations and individuals have provided advice and guidance in the development of these teaching and learning activities: Graeme Schaeche Department of Education & Training Debbie Ollis Department of Education & Training Peter Roberts Department of Education & Training Jan Watson Department of Education & Training Pam Blackman Department of Education & Training Mark McHugh Department of Human Services Ian Seal Family Planning Victoria Peter Gourlay Family Planning Victoria Judy Cain Catholic Education Office Jennie Toyne Association of Independent Schools of Victoria Anne Mitchell Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases (now known as ARCSHS), La Trobe University Dr Lyn Harrison National Centre in HIV Social Research, La Trobe University Dr Susanne Wright University of Melbourne Val Webster University of Melbourne David Taylor Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men’s Health Centre Anne Jungwirth Centre for Social Health, La Trobe University Marg Sutherland Centre for Social Health, La Trobe University Pilot Schools The following schools, teachers and community health workers have been instrumental in the development, trial and modification of the teaching and learning activities: Altona Secondary College Linda Carter Bellarine Secondary College David Ricardo, Kerrie Ricchini, Carol Callahan and Keith Cowan Brunswick Secondary College Maureen Ward, Michael Bartley and Anne Marie Lyndsatt Grange Secondary College Chris Hart, Michelle Thompson, Chris Pocevina and Anne Skeljo Maroondah Secondary College Nerida Matthews, David Rogers and Barry Williams Moreland Community Health Service John Moran and Jenny Bold Sale Secondary College Peter Richter, Greg Allan, Gail Cummins, Marieanne Lee and Margaret White Catching On Catching On Teaching and Learning Activities Published by the Communications Division, for the Department of Education & Training, GPO Box 4367, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia. 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For further information: www.sofweb.vic.edu.au CatchingOn STD/HIV PREVENTION PROJECT EDUCATION TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR YEARS 9 AND 10 Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction ................................................................4 The STD/HIV Prevention Education Strategy ..............................................................4 Why Do We Need the Catching On Resource? ..........................................................5 Context for the Catching On Resource....................................................................7 Outline of the Catching On Resource ....................................................................9 Outline of the Catching On Teaching and Learning Activities ........................................9 How to Use the Catching On Teaching and Learning Activities ....................................10 Creating a Supportive Learning Environment ........................................................10 The Roles of School Nurses and Community Agencies..............................................14 Teaching and Learning Activities ....................................15 Unit 1: Sex, Sexuality and Gender ..............................................................17 Associated Learning Outcomes ..........................................................................18 Activity 1: Take up a Position ............................................................................20 Activity 2: If My Memory Serves Me Well ............................................................23 Activity 3: Making Links ..................................................................................24 Activity 4: Opposite Ends of the Pole ..................................................................30 Activity 5: Think, Feel, Do ..............................................................................37 Activity 6: Presenting Sexuality..........................................................................40 Activity 7: Love, Desire and Intimacy ..................................................................44 Activity 8: There’s Another Side to Love ..............................................................49 Activity 9: The Intimacy of Sex..........................................................................51 Activity 10: Bringing It Together — Student Presentation ........................................54 Unit 2: Pressure, Power and Sexuality ........................................................55 Associated Learning Outcomes ..........................................................................56 Activity 1: What Is Power? ..............................................................................58 Activity 2: Defining Power................................................................................61 CATCHING ON: TEACHING CATCHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES 2 Activity 3: Changing the Rules ..........................................................................66 Activity 4: What Are the Rules? ........................................................................67 Activity 5: Interpreting the Rules ......................................................................70 Activity 6: Assumptions ..................................................................................73 Activity 7: Another Meaning ............................................................................76 Activity 8: Language and Power ........................................................................76 Activity 9: Power and the Law ..........................................................................77 Unit 3: Safer Sex Issues ............................................................................81 Associated Learning Outcomes ..........................................................................82 Activity 1: What Are the Risks? ........................................................................84 Activity 2: How Much Do You Know? ................................................................85 Activity 3: A Maze of Diseases ..........................................................................90 Activity 4: What Do You Need to Know More About? ............................................93 Activity 5: How Safe Is That? ..........................................................................105 Activity 6: Things Are Not Always What They Seem ..............................................105 Activity 7: There’s More to Sexual Safety Than You Think ......................................106 Activity 8: The Power of Assumptions about Sexuality ............................................109 Activity 9: Who Can I Trust? ..........................................................................118 Activity 10: Positive Approaches to Sexuality ......................................................122 Bibliography, Resources and References ..........................123 Bibliography................................................................................................123 Classroom Materials ......................................................................................126 Videos ......................................................................................................128 Policy........................................................................................................128 Teacher References ......................................................................................128 Websites ....................................................................................................130 Where to Find Resources................................................................................132 Where to Ask More Detailed Questions..............................................................133 Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Specialist Services ..................................................133 Appendix ..................................................................134 3 Introduction Over the past ten years many resources have been developed to support