Media Resources for Sexual Health: Real Life Teens- Documentary

Site name: Real Life Teens- Sexual Responsibility 

Produced by: TMW Media Group in 2005 

Runtime: 20 minutes 

Not Rated 

  • This documentary has real-life teens discuss real stories about sexual well-being. They discuss and educate teens about sexual activity, unprotected sex, transmitted diseases, and teen pregnancy and the impact it has on people physically and emotionally. This is the best video because it has real teens talk about the responsibly of sex, as well as making students think about the consequences and impact of their decisions. This documentary educates the watchers about sexual activity, unprotected sex, transmitted diseases, and teen pregnancy and the impact it has on people physically and emotionally.
  • The National Health Education Standard for this documentary is:
    • Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
  • The Healthy Behavior Outcomes for this documentary are: 
    • HBO 3: Engage in behaviors that prevent or reduce sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV infection. 
    • HBO 4: Engage in behaviors that prevent or reduce unintended pregnancy. 
    • HBO 5: Avoid pressuring others to engage in sexual behaviors. 
  • Integrating this documentary into a core topic: 
    • After watching this documentary, we will do an activity where groups of students are given different transmitted diseases and will have to write out a story using the transmitted disease and a character of their choice. I will tell them to include some sort of description in the story, what their character should do when they find out they got the disease and how it could/will affect their lives. This will integrate this topic into language arts.  
  • Common Core State Standards:
    •  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. 
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