Number of People
for this WQ
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Up to
three students can participate in this webquest, each
investigating different aspects of parent-teen communications
about sexual health. An individual student can do all the tasks in
this quest, but it would be lengthy.
Outcomes for
this WQ:
know more about
issues you will face
parents find it
difficult to talk about sex with their kids
start an email
dialogue with a trusted adult
learn how to
assess persuasive writing
Materials for this WQ
Documents for
This WQ
Student Tools for this
WQ
Personal Health Journal
Evaluation Criteria for
Writing to Persuade
Evaluation
Criteria/Procedure
Participation
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Introduction
Talking with your
parents (and vice-versa) about sex is easy to say and harder to do.
This webquest will help you and your parents to learn about some
strategies to communicate in a safe fun way with each other (or
another trusted adult) and to prepare a public service message
(radio or TV) that will offer a message about parent-child
communication on this important topic.
Task
This webquest has
three essential tasks. First you will prepare a research report on
how parents and their teens can communicate effectively about sexual
health. Second, you will review and comment upon five web-based
documents that advise parents on how to talk with their teens about
sex. Third, you will use the “postcard” feature of a web site to
prepare a brief, key message to your parent or other trusted adult
recommending three web pages about parent-teen communications.
Process and Steps
(Don't forget to
take notes on your activities in this webquest. Use section 3.2 of
your
Personal Health Journal)
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This webquest
has numerous
assigned
readings. (see the
list attached to
this webquest.). All of these readings are articles or web pages
intended for parents, on how they should talk with their
children/teens about sexual health.
All students in the group are expected to answer the first two
questions related to these readings (See the
Explanation of Research
Assignment). Then, different students will answers the other
groups of questions (3-4, 5-6 and 7 respectively).
All students should use Section 3.1 of their
Personal Health Journal to take notes about the readings.
Other materials can be used to supplement the assigned readings from
this webquest. See your teacher, public health nurse or librarian
for additional sources.
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Students in the
group should then pool their findings and prepare three to five page
research report on the advice being given to parents about talking
with their child about sex. You are to address these basic issues in
that group report:
- What
is the advice being given to parents (summarize in point form
wherever possible)
Is
this good advice? Why? Or Why not?
What
other advice should be given to parents? Are all of the topics
covered? What other sexual health topics should be discussed?
Follow the outline
provided in the
Explanation of Research
Assignment.
Each member of the
group will then select and evaluate three of the assigned
articles/web pages. (You can choose to review readings that you did
not cover in Step 1. (Therefore, the group should discuss, briefly,
all of the readings. You can recommend readings to other members of
the group if you thought they were really effective or ineffective).
At the same time, you should share the readings/web pages that other
members of your group might like to use in their “postcard”.
Prepare and submit individual reports on each of those three
readings/web pages and submit them to your teacher. You can review
the
evaluation criteria for writing papers to persuade
people. Many of those criteria will be useful for you in rating the
article.
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Go to the “postcard”
page of the
www.sexualityandu.ca web site. Select a trusted adult (it can be
a parent, relative, coach, teacher or other person) and send them a
post card listing three web pages or online articles that you feel
are really effective (or ineffective) in providing advice to
parents. Include the URL as a link and provide a short phrase
explaining why you think they should visit that page and read that
material. (Example, You might want to combine a short explanation,
an article and a quiz for parents.)
Send a copy of this email to your teacher and add an explanation
(about a paragraph for each of your three choices) on why you
selected those three pages.
How Your Work will be Evaluated
Your report on
the first assigned readings should follow the format of Section 3.1
of your
Personal Health Journal.
Your group research report will be assessed using some of the
evaluation criteria for
research reports. (See your teacher for the specific list
that will apply to your work.)
Your assessment of five selected articles/web pages will be assessed
on how well you have used the
evaluation criteria for
persuasive writing.
Your “postcard” to a parent, trusted adult or other person will be
assessed on how well you have identified the best part of the
article or web page and how well you have explained that choice in
your report to the teacher about the postcard.
You will also be marked on your assessment of how well you and
your group
participated in the webquest.
Conclusions and Extensions
As an extension to this
webquest, students could ask their parents to search several web
sites and recommend three pages about sexual health for their teens
to read. Or, they could ask their parents to visit the quizzes on
web sites for parents listed in this webquest.
A major follow-up activity from this webquest could have your
students designing an online e-reading course for parents on how to
discuss sexual health with their children.
Want to talk
with someone about these issues? Why not call the Kids Help Phone at
1-800-668-6868 or visit
their web site.
Also read these
tips on how to use
Hotline
Information.
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