6th grade Sexual Health

CPS recognizes the need for a comprehensive approach to sexual health education that is applied consistently throughout the District. This Policy reflects the Board’s commitment to ensure that the District’s comprehensive family life and sexual health education programming:
 is aligned with the National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K-12;
 is developmentally appropriate;
 provides strategies to support all students regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual
orientation, gender identity, gender expression;
 is culturally sensitive;
 provides a focus on health promotion and risk reduction within the context of the world in
which students live;
 is medically accurate;
 emphasizes abstinence as a component of healthy sexual decision-making and the only
protection that is 100% effective against unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted
infections and HIV when transmitted sexually;
 includes instruction that promotes a wholesome and comprehensive understanding of the
emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and social responsibility aspects of
sexuality and family life;
 is consistent with State laws enacted to address the need for students to receive
comprehensive health education;
 emphasizes that parents/guardians are the primary sexual health educators for their
child(ren);
 offers parents/guardians information on comprehensive sexual health education provided to
students via the District-approved education lessons; and
 offers parents/guardians the opportunity to opt their child(ren) out of comprehensive sexual
health education lessons in accordance with State law.

 

The following lessons make up the 6th grade Sexual Health Education curriculum:

 

Lesson 1: Human Anatomy and Reproduction

Lesson 2: Pregnancy and Birth

Lesson 3: Exploring Abstinence

Lesson 4: Contraceptives

Lesson 5: STIs and HIV

Lesson 6: Decision Making

Lesson 7: Delay Tactics and Refusal Skills

Lesson 8: Sexual Health Resources