Find sexual health resources for the classroom

Sexual health education is part of the physical and health education (PHE) curriculum. Yukon schools teach sexual education to students in:

• Kindergarten to Grade 9; and
• Planning and Careers 10.

To support with delivery of comprehensive sexual health education, we provide resources that:

• create a respectful environment and safe classroom culture; and
• have clear standards and guidelines for training and presentations.

To have a health promotion coordinator come to your classroom contact health.promotion@yukon.ca.

Educator resources and lesson plans

Kindergarten to Grade 3

Use this video with guides to cover these PHE learning standards:

• names for parts of the body, including proper names for genitals and reproductive organs; and
• the appropriate and inappropriate ways of being touched.

Grade 4

Use this guide to cover these PHE learning standards:

• physical, emotional and social changes that occur during puberty, including those involving sexuality and sexual identity and changes to relationships; and
• puberty (the changes that bodies go through).

Grade 5

Use this guide to cover these PHE learning standards:

• physical, emotional and social changes that occur during puberty, including those involving sexuality and sexual identity and changes to relationships;
• puberty (the changes that bodies go through).

Grade 6

Use this guide to cover these PHE learning standards:

• explore and describe strategies for managing physical, emotional and social changes during puberty and adolescence;
• practices that reduce the risk of contracting sexual transmitted infections and life-threatening communicable diseases; and
• influences on individual identity, including sexual identity, gender, values and beliefs:
  • sexually transmitted infections, viruses and bacteria that make us sick;
  • sexual orientation;
  • gender identity;
  • consent.

Grade 7

Use this guide to cover these PHE learning standards:

• explore and describe strategies for managing physical, emotional and social changes during puberty and adolescence;
• practices that reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and life-threatening communicable diseases;
• influences on individual identity, including sexual identity, gender values and beliefs:
  • Sexually transmitted infections, viruses and bacteria that make us sick;
  • Sexual orientation;
  • Gender identity;
  • Consent.

Kindergarten to Grade 12

Use this guide to cover learning standards from Kindergarten to Grade 12.