1. Rights, Respect, Responsibility: A K-12 Sexuality Education Curriculum
STD Smarts
12th Grade Lesson from
Rights, Respect, Responsibility: A K-12 Sexuality Education Curriculum

2. STD Smarts Which One Is Riskiest? Testing, Testing Can I Be Cured?
What Should They Do?
I Don’t Feel So Good…
Myth or Fact?
10 points
20 points
30 points
40 points
50 points

3. Category Which One Is Riskiest?
10 points
Category Which One Is Riskiest?
Tongue kissing, mutual masturbation, using a public toilet

4. Category Which One Is Riskiest?
20 points
Category Which One Is Riskiest?
Abstinence or dry sex

5. Category Which One Is Riskiest?
30 points
Category Which One Is Riskiest?
Performing oral sex on another person, receiving oral sex from another person, having penis-vagina sex with a condom

6. Category Which One Is Riskiest?
40 points
Category Which One Is Riskiest?
Having unprotected penis-vagina sex in a swimming pool, having protected oral sex, mutual masturbation

7. Category Which One Is Riskiest?
50 points
Category Which One Is Riskiest?
Unprotected oral sex, penis-vagina sex with a condom, unprotected anal sex

8. Category Testing, Testing
10 points
Category Testing, Testing
True or False: There is one type of test that can screen for the most common STDs

9. Category Testing, Testing
20 points
Category Testing, Testing
True or False: Minors (age 18 and younger) must have a parent or guardian’s consent to be tested for STDs

10. Category Testing, Testing
30 points
Category Testing, Testing
Name two types of places where people can go to get tested for STDs

11. Category Testing, Testing
40 points
Category Testing, Testing
True or False: If a person thinks they might have been exposed to an STD, they should get tested within 24 hours

12. Category Testing, Testing
50 points
Category Testing, Testing
Girls and women are tested for HPV when they get pap tests; how are boys and men tested?

13. 10 points
Category Can I Be Cured?
Chlamydia

14. 20 points
Category Can I Be Cured?
Syphilis

15. 30 points
Category Can I Be Cured?
HIV

16. 40 points
Category Can I Be Cured?
Gonorrhea

17. 50 points
Category Can I Be Cured?
Genital Warts

18. Category What Should They Do?
10 points
Category What Should They Do?
A person has never had sex before. Their partner has, but only once. Do they need to use condoms?

19. Category What Should They Do?
20 points
Category What Should They Do?
A couple is making out and it looks like they may have sex. One partner takes out a condom and the other says, “I don’t use those.” What should the other partner do?

20. Category What Should They Do?
30 points
Category What Should They Do?
A couple is about to have sex for the first time. They know they need to use condoms but don’t want to be seen buying them in a store. What are two other places they can go to get condoms?

21. Category What Should They Do?
40 points
Category What Should They Do?
A couple is having penis-vagina sex, and the condom breaks. They don’t have any more condoms with them.

22. Category What Should They Do?
50 points
Category What Should They Do?
A person notices small red bumps on the outside of their genitals. They don’t look like the gross slides they saw in science class at school so maybe it’s a heat rash. They’ve had sex before and used condoms a few times. What THREE THINGS should they do?

23. Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
10 points
Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
True or False: One way to tell if someone has an STD is to stick earwax inside their vagina. If doing this stings, they have an STD.

24. Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
20 points
Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
Name three common symptoms of most STDs

25. Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
30 points
Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
True or False: A common symptom of STDs is bruising more easily

26. Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
40 points
Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
Two weeks after being infected with this virus, a person may experience a sudden, intense onset of severe flu-like symptoms

27. Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
50 points
Category I Don’t Feel So Good…
What is the MOST common symptom of an STD?

28. Category Myth or Fact? 10 points
Basketball player Magic Johnson, previously diagnosed with HIV, no longer has the virus

29. Category Myth or Fact? 20 points
Once a person has genital warts removed, they can no longer give the virus to someone else

30. Category Myth or Fact? 30 points
If a person gets chlamydia, takes the entire course of antibiotics and is cured, they cannot get chlamydia again

31. There is currently a vaccine available for two STDs
40 points
Category Myth or Fact?
There is currently a vaccine available for two STDs

32. A baby born to an HIV+ mother will always be HIV+
50 points
Category Myth or Fact?
A baby born to an HIV+ mother will always be HIV+