By learning how health behaviour affects fertility, young people become aware of the choices they make and how these choices may affect their future fertility. They can recognise that certain habits, such as smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use and unhealthy diet, can be harmful to fertility and their possible future children. By adopting a healthy lifestyle, students may be able to prevent or reduce fertility problems in the future.
This module addresses some of the minimum targets of key competency 6 (competencies in mathematics, science and technology).
The impact of health behaviour on fertility
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How Lifestyle Affects Your Fertility | Your Fertility
Your-sperm-and-how-to-look-after-them_final.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
Sperm Health_Fact Sheet_Healthy Male+YourFertility 2019.pdf
The_role_of_exercise_in_improving_fertility.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
Weight_and_reproductive_outcomes.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
How_to_get_ready_to_be_a_Dad_0.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
Parenting_from_before_conception.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
Pre-conception Checklist for Women.pdf (yourfertility.org.au)
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Fertility problems
You can find information around fertility problems here.
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| Factsheet on ART_ESHRE | 131.9 KB |
| Factsheet on infertility_ESHRE | 97.26 KB |
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Conception
Below are teaching materials related to fertilisation. In the third grade of secondary education, pupils are generally already well informed around how conception takes place. Besides the biological aspects, pupils are especially interested in relational and sexual aspects. Learning material on relational and sexual aspects can be found in the first module.
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Factors affecting embryo and foetal development
Disclaimer
The words "woman" and "man" are increasingly ambiguous concepts and should be avoided where possible. For ease of communication on this platform, we use the terms "woman" and "man" when providing information about biological processes. In this context, the term "woman" refers to a person with "female" sex characteristics (e.g., vulva, uterus, ovaries, etc.), and the term "man" refers to a person with "male" sex characteristics (e.g., penis, testes), although we are aware that:
1) There are many intersex individuals or individuals with variations in sex characteristics;
2) There are many people for whom gender identity does not fully correspond to or align with sex characteristics.
When providing information about relational aspects, however, the term "woman" does not refer to biological characteristics, but rather to gender. This also includes trans women (individuals who were legally registered as male at birth based on sex characteristics but have a female gender identity) and intersex individuals (born with variations in sex characteristics) who identify as women. Similarly, the term "man" refers to gender in this context, including trans men and intersex individuals who identify as men.