Teaching Tool - Human Development and Sexual Health Resources and Guides
Human growth, development and sexual health resources.
Consent, safety and respect (Saleema Noon - Sexual Health Educators): This resource includes messages for kids aged four to 12 about sexual health and healthy relationships related to consent, safety and respect.
Curriculum (Advocates for Youth): Rights, respect, responsibility is a sex education curriculum that addresses the functional knowledge related to sexuality and the specific skills necessary to adopt healthy behaviours. This resource includes 40-minute lessons for kindergarten to Grade 5 and 50-minute lessons for Grades 6 to 12. Refer to the teacher's guide, new lessons and PowerPoints for lessons.
Elementary resources (Institute for Catholic Education): Elementary resources from Grades 1 to 8 related to the fully alive program. Family Life Education passes on a distinctively Catholic view of human life, sexuality, marriage and family. Its goal is to complement families' efforts and support what parents do at home.
Gender-based violence prevention education resources (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association): This resource includes ready-to-use classroom activities with scenarios from the "draw the line" campaign. These scenarios help students understand gender-based violence, including the role of the bystander, decision-making, problem-solving, communication and conflict resolution skills. These skills can be used to respond to verbal, physical and social bullying and abuse, sexual harassment, sexting and coercive, inappropriate or non-consensual sexual behaviours.
Sex education school - episodes (Everybody Curious): This resource includes videos about puberty, sexual health, consent and communication, relationships, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Sexual health - elementary educator resources (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit): This website includes healthy sexuality resources for elementary educators to use when delivering topics of sexual health.
Sexual health education resources (Sex Information and Education Council of Canada): This website includes sexual health education resources about anti-racism, bodies (puberty, anatomy, body image), consent, disabilities, gender identity and expression, love and relationships and reproductive health.
Sexual health support and resources for education (York Region): York Region Public Health works with school boards and educators to support human development and sexual health education through consultation, workshops, curriculum and school support. Refer to the sexual health lesson plans and classroom activities created by York Region Public Health, York Region District School Board and Health and Physical Education specialists. These resources are grade-specific, and curriculum matched activities for classes about human development and sexual health curriculum.
Sexual health resource library (Sex and U): This website includes different resources tailored to teaching sexual health, including the body, sexual activity, LGBTTQ+, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, pregnancy, consent and more.
Sexual health resources (Sexual Health Options Resources and Education Centre): This website allows people, including teachers, to access the most accurate and up-to-date information about sexual health and sexuality.
Teaching sexual health (Alberta Health Services): This website has a teacher and parent portal with resources teaching about sexual health education. The teacher portal gives teachers and educators evidence-based sexual health information, lesson plans, tools and resources.
Gender and sexual diversity resources
Age-appropriate tips for addressing gender stereotypes in the classroom (Common Sense Education): This resource helps educators promote positive gender representations and give students a broader perspective.
Coaching the bystander (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association): This activity teaches what a bystander is and how to be an ally. Students will learn what to do when a situation happens, how they can help and the options available to take action.
Creating safe and welcoming schools (Human Rights Campaign Foundation Welcoming Schools): This resource includes projects that address family diversity, gender stereotyping and bullying in kindergarten to Grade 5 learning environments. Refer to lesson plans to create gender expansive classrooms and support transgender and non-binary students, lesson plans to create LGBTQ+ inclusive classrooms and schools, and lesson plans to prevent bias-based bullying.
LGBTTQ+: Coming out (Sex and U): This resource has information for people interested in learning about self-acceptance, coming out and supporting someone who has come out.
How to advocate at school for yourself or someone you love (Gegi): This resource helps people support gender expression and gender identity human rights at school. This website was created for Ontario kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers, administrators and other school staff.
Gender and sexual diversity support (The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity): This website has history resources for teachers, organizations, politicians, youth, and community members.
Gender identity: Gender roles and stereotypes (Amaze): This lesson focuses on gender role stereotypes and the history of traditional gender roles. The video explains how gender roles affect how people display emotions and how the expectations that go with gender roles have changed over time.
Gay-straight student alliances and queer-straight student alliances in Alberta schools: A guide for teachers (The Alberta Teachers' Association): This guide includes legislation, law, educational policy and research to develop a framework for creating and sustaining gay-straight student alliances or queer-straight student alliances in schools. Strategies, suggestions and a list of frequently asked questions help school administrators, counsellors, teachers and students engage in this important social justice and human rights work. Gay-straight student alliances or queer-straight student alliances are critical change agents that help create safe, caring and inclusive schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer students and their allies.
"I Am Me" poems (Welcoming Schools): This lesson helps students share and explore their identities through poetry. The activity begins with reading the book "Looking Like Me" by Walter Dean Myers. Students will then create short poems about their self-concept and identity, modelled from ideas in the book.
It's pronounced metrosexual (Sam Killermann): This is a free online resource for learning and teaching about gender, sexuality and social justice created by Sam Killermann. For more support, visit Hues: Art, tools and resources created for global justice.
Resources (Pride Education Network): This website has resources to help educators teach about creating and supporting a gay / straight alliance, deal with name-calling and what educators need to know about the gender spectrum.
Sexual orientation and gender identity (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario): This website has resources to help understand, cope with and support someone with their sexual and gender identity. It includes pamphlets, apps, videos, local contacts and definitions.
Safe zone project (The Safe Zone Project): This free online resource is for LGBTQ awareness and has ally training workshops.
The sexuality wheel (Teaching Sexual Health): This resource is for educators to bring awareness to the different ideas of what sexuality is. The wheel represents parts of who we are and how they connect and influence each other.
2SLGBTQ+ resources (Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario): This website has resources that address 2SLGBTQ+ education for teachers, students and the community.