Reproduction is a natural part of life and it is likely your child has already encountered the topic in some way. While it may feel awkward to talk to your child about the process of reproduction, it is important that they understand how humans reproduce in order to better understand how to have safe, healthy relationships in the future. This collection of resources offers information on topics such as pregnancy, conception, birth, and reproductive anatomy.
This short video provides information on how one gets pregnant, fertilization, and how long pregnancy is.
Source: Amaze.org
This short video discusses how unprotected sex can lead to pregnancy and describes other signs that one may be pregnant.
Source: Amaze.org
This resource has a collection of videos to provide information on the different stages of pregnancy. The videos cover fertilization, all of the changes someone experiences while pregnant and breaks the information into different weeks of pregnancy.
Source: BabyCenter
This is a lesson plan on reproduction. The outcome of this lesson is to be able to identify and describe the stages and factors that can affect human development from conception through birth.
Source: Differing Abilities
This lesson plan could be adapted for people with disabilities. The lesson objective is that students connect puberty to the capacity for human reproduction.
Source: Teaching Sexual Health
This lesson plan could be adapted for people with disabilities. This lesson's outcome is to have students investigate human reprodction from fertilization to birth.
Source: Teaching Sexual Health
This lesson plan could be adapted for people with disabilities. The goal of this lesson is to have students investigate human reproduction from fertilization to birth.
Source: Teaching Sexual Health
This guide was developed for women with disabilities to provide information on reproductive health. This guide is very thorough and discusses all topics within reproductive health. While this guide has a lot of important information it is very language and word heavy.
Source: The Empowered Fe Fes
This book is an inclusive book designed for youth to explain conception, gestation, and birth. The book does not gender body parts and shows how families can be made through different ways like surrogacy, adoption, reproductive technology, etc.
Source: Cory Silverberg
This site offers information about how to talk about pregnancy and reproduction to your children based on different age ranges. They provide examples of clear and direct explanations and show how you can increase the complexity of information you provide, based on the learner.
Source: Planned Parenthood