RSHEConsent, relationships and sex education20 min★ difficulty

How reproduction works

Sex education is about understanding your body, respect and health, not about being in a hurry to grow up.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Understand human reproduction, contraception and sexual health, and where to get confidential advice

Key learning points

• How a pregnancy starts
• Other ways families are made
• Readiness and respect
• Where online images mislead

This lesson at a glance

20 minutes
19 parts to scroll through
4 quick checks
Marked quiz at the end
Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

reproductioncontraceptionsexualhealthconfidential

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Introduction

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Visual introduction

Picture this

How reproduction works

Sex education is about understanding your body, respect and health, not about being in a hurry to grow up.

In a nutshell

Understand human reproduction, contraception and sexual health, and where to get confidential advice

What you already know

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Before we start

What you already know

You know the names of the reproductive organs from the puberty lesson.

Key words

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Key words

Words you'll need today

sexual intercourse: When a penis enters a vagina. It's one way a pregnancy can start.
fertilisation: When a sperm joins an egg.
pregnancy: When a fertilised egg implants in the uterus and grows over about 40 weeks.
relationship: Sex should only ever happen between people who both consent and are old enough.

Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1: From egg and sperm to baby

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

Explore the idea

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Learn

How a pregnancy starts

During sexual intercourse, sperm can be released into the vagina. They swim through the uterus to the fallopian tubes. If one meets an egg, fertilisation happens. The fertilised egg travels to the uterus and may implant there.

Explore the idea

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Learn

Other ways families are made

Some people have babies through IVF (where fertilisation happens in a lab), donor sperm or eggs, or surrogacy. Others adopt or foster. Many families are made in these ways.

Quick check

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Quick check

What is fertilisation?

Quick check

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Quick check

Where does fertilisation usually happen?

Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now

Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2: Respect and readiness

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

Explore the idea

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Learn

Readiness and respect

Most people your age aren't having sex, whatever social media suggests. Being ready means being old enough, both people consenting, feeling no pressure, and knowing how to stay safe.

Explore the idea

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Learn

Where online images mislead

Pornography isn't a guide to real relationships. It often shows unrealistic bodies and no care or consent. If you've seen something online that upset you, it's OK to tell an adult.

Quick check

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Quick check

Which is a way families can be made?

Quick check

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Quick check

Being ready includes:

Common mix-ups

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Common mix-ups

Things people often get wrong

You can get pregnant the first time you have sex.
Most teenagers aren't having sex, whatever social media suggests.

Challenge round

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Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

During ____ intercourse, sperm can be released into the vagina.

Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: How reproduction works

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

1. Can pregnancy happen the first time?
2. Is pornography a realistic guide to relationships?
3. How long does a pregnancy usually last?

Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

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Points this lesson

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Case study

The group chat

Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.

The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.

Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.

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Reading questions

What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

Thinking it through
Writing
Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.
6–8 sentences

Write your answer, notes or working here

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Photos of paper work, diagrams or working outHow many minutes did the written work take?

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