Number of People for this WQ

• This challenging webquest is for senior students working in teams. This webquest would be very difficult for one individual to accomplish because the creative process of game development will require interaction with others.

Outcomes for this WQ:

• Strengthen your decision to wait or abstain
• Provide alternatives to intense sexual activity that are satisfying, intimate and romantic
• Help you avoid situations where you will face increased pressure or temptation
• Provide arguments to persuade your partner to wait with you

Materials for this WQ

None

Documents for This WQ

• Template to prepare a board game on postpoing sex

 Student Tools for this WQ

• Personal Health Journal
• How to Create a Health Game

 Evaluation Criteria/Procedure

• Notes on Assigned activities articles using Section 3.2 of your Personal Health Journal
• Notes on Group Participation and contribution (Section 3.3 of your Personal Health Journal
• Evaluation Criteria for Health Games

 

Introduction

This webquest is for people who are considering or who have decided to postpone having sexual intercourse (or other intense sexual activity) until having sex fits better with their life goals/situation and/or they have found a long term committed relationship. This includes people who have had intercourse but have decided to abstain from such activity for the time being.  

Tasks 

In this webquest, you will prepare a board game that has cards (or visits to selected web pages) that test skills, knowledge and other choices that relate to deciding to postpone sexual intercourse.

 Process and Steps

Don’t forget to take notes on your activities within this webquest.
Use Section 3.2 of your Personal Health Journal.

1. First, take a look at the decision-making process or roadway that the Peel Health Authority has pictured about sexual decision-making. Take a look at the items on that roadway that people will encounter as they make their decisions about having sex. Note that they discuss things like being ready for dating, handling relationships, avoiding getting drunk in compromising situations etc.



2. Next, read through our tips for teachers and students on How to Create a Health Game. This webquest is based on that checklist and questions about building board games. We will be suggesting some ideas about the game to you, but if you have a better idea, go for it.
   
   As you can see when you read or How to Create a Health Game, you start with a deep understanding of the content of the game so that the experiences and choices that the “players” make in the game relate directly to the experiences and choices that we face in real life.
   
   Our tips on creating health games suggest that you need to have an idea of the nature of the game, its purpose, how a player “wins”. We suggest that you think about a “pathway” game, that has players answering questions in order to advance through the game.
   
   However, the part you need to keep in mind, at least for this webquest, is that you need to show your teacher how you have used the health information as content for the game. You will be marked on these criteria for evaluating health games.
   
   We will use the tips in the How to Create a Health Game and apply them to this topic. We have tried to get you started by preparing a working document for your use. Use our document, A Template to Prepare a Board Game on Postponing Sex, as a starting point for your work in developing your game for this webquest.

   Print that Template and take the time to review it carefully. You will need to work in groups and remember that designing a game is a long process. It will be very interesting, but it will take a lot of creativity and work.
   
   Read the articles suggested within the template to develop your skill testing questions or scenarios for the game.
   
   The game that you design can be anything you like, but our template is based on the idea of a board game, with players going across a board, being challenged by various situations and choices as they strive to postpone sexual intercourse until later in their lives.  The game can include visits to different web pages to test players knowledge, and you can make up knowledge testing questions based on the assigned readings.
   
   Don’t be afraid to ask your teacher for help in using the template and in working on your game.

3. Each member of the group should then use Section 3.3 of Your Personal Health Journal to assess how well your group worked together on this project.

 How Your Work will be Evaluated

Your game will be assessed using the Evaluation Criteria for Health Games. Your individual contribution will be assessed on your responses using Sections 3.2 and 3.3 of Your Personal health Journal.

 Conclusions and Extensions

You can extend the learning from this webquest by publishing your game on the web, or by creating a version for use by your class or school.

You can also choose to do on the related webquest that has students preparing a newspaper editorial expressing the reasons why young people should postpone sexual intercourse until later in life.

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.