Sexual Education: What Students Think About It?

Introduction

In recent years there has been big debate about whether or not schools should teach sexual education to inform students about the different aspects this topic involves. There are a number of reports that have been published, many of which are opinion reports and contain no factual information. But, What do students think about? Why is so bad to teach about sexual education in classroom? Why is so important? There is a debate about whether sexual education should be incorporated into the curriculum. The board currently has no form of sexual education in the curriculum and the need to help to pick the best type of sexual education that teachers should teach in order to cover doubts and questions that students might have if this is applied.

Task

For this webquest you are going to work in tow groups. one group will be assigned to research the benefits of sexual education in schools and the other one will work with the cons of sexual education in schools.  You will use  valid resources  to support your argument. At the end of this webquest one group will present a ten minutes powerpoint,  giving your suggestion(s) on what type of the sexual education should be taught and why, and what major themes should be included. The other one, will develop why sexual education shouldn't be included as a subeject in schools, supporting your point of view with real facts or opinions from specialits on this topic, in both cases you have to take into account what are the views of parents, students, and teachers, what effects or trends, Lastly, what do you think?: the benefits and drawbacks of your of sexual education. A question and answer section will follow your presentation. At the end of the presentations, the teacher with the students will have a converasation, the idea is to put together all the information in order to know if students want or not sexual education, if they feel prepare to know more about about it, and what their environment says about this topic.

Process

1.  You will be assigned to a group of students and your group will talk about if sexual education should be a subject in schools or non - sexual education in schools as a subject.

2. Use valid websites to help to your argument. You will be given 2 quality websites, and you will need to find at least two additional sources to help support your argument about your reallity. Your group have to present facts and statistics about our reallity to support your side.  Your sources must provide facts about any trends (i.e. teen pregnancy, STI infection rate) in other countries where  sexual education exists and compare this information with our reallity, also, you must provide students, parents, and teacher opinions about  sexual education in our school, if it should be teached or not depending on the case.  Be prepared to justify the question and answer section of your presentation.

3. After your presentation of your point, your group have to answer the following questions in order to make an idea of what you think about this theme.      a. What is the basic definition of your of sexual education?           b. Is our society prepare? Are parents prepare to let their children get into this topic as a new subject?       c. What are some of the views of parents, students, and teachers about sexual education?       d. What do you think are the benefits/drawbacks of sexual education in your school?

Evaluation
beginning developing Accomplished Exemplary Score
Elements of the power point presentation Is not visualiy appealing, too wordy and non of the guidelines are met outlined  Is somewhat visually appealing, not too wordy and some of the guidelines are met outlined  Is visually appealing, not too wordy and all the guidelines are met outlined  15
Quality of websites used Students do not used any of the four websites given Students choose more opinions besed on the websites that were given, they did not look for others Students choose good quality websites, and make a correct use of the sources given 25
Content of the information presented Stundents do not answer none of the questions given in the process section Stundents  answer most of the questions given in the process section, but no suplementary info presented Stundents  answer  the questions given in the process section, and present suplementary info 30

This rubric will evaluate the presentation itself: the way students used the information and what they could find, also how well they divelop the info.

Conclusion

This topic can be very interesting if we want students to learn about it, it is very useful, nowadays 15-16 years old girls are mothers. If we have sexual education in our classrooms, we can prevent this sad fact. The new generations have another way of thinking, they are more open minded, so it can be easy to teach or talk about in a classroom. 

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