- Sort pictures of places asking "where is it okay to be naked?"
- Sort body parts asking "where is it okay for people to touch me?" or "where is it okay for me to touch other people?"
- Make small hand cut outs and put them on pictures of a body to show where it is okay to touch and be touched.
- Help students write their own set of touching rules.
- Teach where it is okay to masturbate.
Questions to spark discussion:
- Where can I touch people?
- Where can people touch me?
- Where do I never touch people?
- Where should people never touch me?
- What should I do if someone touches my private areas?
- What should I do if someone hurts me or tries to hurt me?
- Who can I kiss?
- Is it okay for people to kiss me?
- Is it okay for a stranger to talk to me?
- Is it okay to go someplace with a stranger?
- Show basic pictures of a boy and a girl. Talk about ways they are the same and different.
- Even if students are non-verbal teach them to point to a named body part on a picture.
- Have students draw bathing suits on pictures of people to show what parts need to be covered.
- Talk about where the student's private places are - where can they go to be alone?
- Sort pictures into private and public places.
- Talk about etiquette rules for public bathrooms.
- Give students the power to say no to physical touch.
- Pay attention to the modelling they see.
- Adopt a set of consistent rules about what is okay.
- Use decision clouds to talk about issues related to erections at various points throughout the day or getting your period.
- Sort public and private behaviours.
- Teach girls how to properly dispose of pads in the metal boxes in public washrooms.
- Show pads with various amounts of saturation - help girls identify the pads that need to be changed right away.
- Talk about safe and unsafe places to meet new people.
- Role play situations where someone tries to get you to change your boundaries.
- Divide relationship qualities into green light (good), yellow light (concerning) and red light(unsafe).
- Teach students what their signals are that they are feeling unsafe.
- Encourage assertiveness and appropriate non compliance.
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