Educational Teaching Resources.
Below is a collection of educational teaching resources designed to support teachers and educators with lessons relating to periods and menstruation. If you know of a resource that you think belongs on this list please get in touch.
A Period Positive National Curriculum for England
Menstruation education is an essential part of wider menstrual literacy. As we begin to develop awareness as a society that menstrual stigma and shame can contribute to barriers to learning and agency, there has never been a greater need to integrate menstrual...
All About Getting Your Period | Amaze Org
Learn all about getting your period from this Amaze Org video! During puberty, young people begin to get their menstrual periods. Menstrual periods are when a small amount of blood and tissue leave the body through the vagina over the course of a few days. It...
Bleed Week – The Spinoff
Founded in 2014, The Spinoff has grown to become Aotearoa’s most innovative independent media organisation with a focus on vibrant, modern coverage of current affairs and pop culture. Bleed Week is a compilation of The Spinoff's coverage of periods and...
CARE About Fibroids
CARE About Fibroids is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit whose mission is to elevate uterine fibroids as a women’s health issue and drive change. Bringing together many of the nation’s most respected women’s health advocacy and policy-focused organisations to...
Enviromenstrual Week Activities | Wen.
Perfect for celebrating Menstrual Hygiene Day, these fun and simple activities normalise and destigmatise menstruation and periods. Make your own pads and badges, and host community events to help normalise periods in your communities. Find out more...
Going with the Flow: Menstruation and Rainbow Inclusive Practices in the Outdoors
‘Going with the flow’ is a multi-media resource about gender equity in the outdoors. It aims to inspire positive changes to outdoor practice and culture. Designed for youth, educators, and outdoor practitioners, it includes: a print resource a four-part video...
Guide to Building Period Positive Sports Clubs
It is essential that young players are treated with dignity and respect, especially when it comes to matters of reproductive health and menstruation. This is essential to ensuring that young people who are menstruating feel supported so they can continue to...
Heavy Periods Fact Sheet – Jean Hailes
Approximately one-in-four people who menstruate have heavy periods. Jean Hailes has presented the need-to-know information an an easily understood format. Read the fact sheet...
How menstruation works – Emma Bryce | TEDEd
At this moment, three hundred million people across the planet are experiencing the same thing: a period. The monthly menstrual cycle that gives rise to the period is a reality that over half of the people on Earth will go through in their lives. But why is this...
How to include boys in menstruation education classes
Boys need to be included in classes on period education – and here’s how you can do it. Today, health classes are mixed gender, but there’s still a long way to go to ensure all pupils have the same access to this information, even if they never menstruate. They...
How to prepare your child for their first period
Preparing your child for their first period—and roughly 40 more years of the monthly experience—can seem like a daunting task (like all those conversations about puberty and sex education), but it doesn't have to be. Be open, honest, and positive to make this new...
How to talk to kids about periods
Young people need straight-forward, factual information about what will happen to their bodies when they go through puberty. It might feel embarrassing or awkward to talk to children about periods, but the earlier you talk to them the better. After all, knowledge...
Lesson Plan & Resource Finder
Find lesson plans and classroom resources about relationships and sexual health for grades 4 and up, filtered by grade, topic, language or resource type. All lesson plans include specific curriculum outcomes, material lists, teacher notes and tips. Find out more...
Menstrual Cycle Activities | BrainPOP
Join Cassie and Rita to learn all about the what happens to a young person's body during menstruation. Students will have access to a range of activities, including making their own movie about menstruation, all while learning about the impacts of periods. Find out...
Menstrual Health Hub
The MH Hub is world’s first digital networking and knowledge platform that unites and strengthens the global menstrual community. The platform provides an online space to connect with those working on menstrual and female health, and hosts free access to a database...
Menstrual Hygiene Management Education Guide – WASH United
WASH United's Menstrual Hygiene Management Education Guide, developed together with young people and teachers, is a compact, easy-to-use and low-cost solution that provides every young person with the menstrual hygiene management support they need. Read more...
Menstruation in Trans People
Menstruation, or a period, is a part of many people’s lives. For some trans and gender diverse people, getting their period is a normal and okay part of being in their body, and for others it’s uncomfortable and even an actively distressing experience. Having a...
Menstruation: What To Expect | Amaze Org
Beginning menstruation, often called getting your period, is a normal part of going through puberty for a person that has a uterus. Watch the full video to learn more about the physical and mental changes you can expect before getting your period. Watch the video...
My Vital Cycles
The ovulatory-menstrual cycle is central to wellbeing. With 40 to 50 years of periods ahead of them, adolescent girls deserve the best possible start to life as strong healthy women. Using the principles of Positive Education, a Health Promoting School can help...
Nancy’s Nook
This is an endometriosis learning library. It contains information collected and shared over many years. Nancy has now compiled these resources and presented them for you as a living library of information that will continue to grow. It is up to you what you do...
Period Fact Sheet – Jean Hailes
Get the need-to-know information about periods in an easily digestible format from Jean Hailes. Read the fact sheet here.
Period Hygiene: Tampons, Pads and Menstrual Cups | Amaze Org
Beginning menstruation, often called getting your period, is a normal part of going through puberty for a person that has a uterus. This video from Amaze Org provides a basic rundown of the three most common period products: tampons, pads and cups. The video also...
Period Planet – Interactive game from U by Kotex
Made by U by Kotex, Period Planet is a game that encourages users to bring a desolate planet back to life by gaining knowledge and busting myths about periods. The game includes a small opportunity to choose a custom avatar that best represents the player. Find...
Period Poverty: Everything You Need to Know – Global Citizen
People who menstruate are ostracized from basic activities, like eating certain foods or socializing, all over the world. The cultural shame attached to menstruation and a shortage of resources stop women from going to school and working every day. Period poverty...
Periods | The Royal Women’s Hospital, Victoria
The Royal Women's Hospital in Victoria has collated general information on menstruation and periods, as well as specialist information on various menstrual disorders. Find out more...
Planet Puberty
Planet Puberty is a digital resource suite by Family Planning NSW that aims to provide parents and carers of children with intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder with the latest information, strategies and resources for supporting their child...
Power to Play Period Resources
Power to Play Period have collected the leading research on menstrual health and sport from around the world. This page includes print outs, links, reports, research and apps that can help people who menstruate thrive in sport. From the basics of helping people in...
Progressing towards adolescent ovulatory menstrual health literacy: a systematic review of school-based interventions
This study was designed to evaluate the extent to which school-based ovulatory-menstrual (OM) health interventions facilitate the Health Outcome Model’s domains of health literacy. Electronic databases and gray literature sources were searched from 1980 to 2019....
Share My Lesson – Menstruation
Find over 200 lesson plans and activities relating to menstruation filterable by year level and resource type. Find out more...
Talking about periods with boys: how easy is it? – The Conversation
"Menstruation is associated with smells, mess, blood, gore, impurity and disgust. Which is probably why many women say they feel uncomfortable talking about their periods. This leads to women suffering in silence when it comes to “that time of the month” – hiding...
The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
Written by autistic author Robyn Steward, this is a detailed guide for young people aged 9 to 16 on the basics of menstruation. Created in consultation with young people, an online survey and a group of medical professionals, this is a book that teaches all people...
The Endo Belly Coach
Jessica is a certified health coach specialised in endometriosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth (a.k.a. SIBO; one of the key causes of endo belly!). Jessica is also an endo, interstitial cystitis and SIBO warrior themself – so they know what you’re going...
The Launch Pad – Menstrual Education
The Launch Pad is Period Action's education platform. The Launch Pad provides education on sustainable menstruation, inclusive guides to menstruation, as well as general resources. Find out more...
The Menstrual Cycle | Interactive Tool
Use this online interactive tool to learn about the changes that occur over the duration of the menstrual cycle including changes in temperature, hormone levels, and the uterine lining. Find out more...
The Menstrual Cycle | NSW Government
Students use this resource from the NSW government consisting of six slides with diagrams, written explanation and voice-over to understand the changes that occur in a person's body during the menstrual cycle. There is a two-question quiz and a summary slide. ...
The Menstrual Cycle, Animated
Watch this animated video from Harvard School of Public Health, featuring an anthropomorphised reproductive system to educate children on anatomy and physiology. With nearly 44% of people who menstruate not knowing about menstruation before their first periods,...
The stigma over periods won’t end until boys learn about them too – The Guardian
Read the thoughts of period activist Amika George on including boys in childhood menstrual education. "The world of menstruation is often a mystery to those who haven’t experienced it. A big, red secret that half the world’s population endure while the other half...
Understanding your menstrual cycle – AIS
The Australian Institute of Sport has developed a series of fact sheets about menstrual health and periods to help inform the public and athletes. Read the fact sheets...
What About Me? – Period Health NZ
What About Me? is an online menstrual education course developed by professional educators to provide a convenient on-demand resource for learning about periods and menstruation. The course is suited to teachers, parents, community groups, children and young...
What can Australian schools do better? Supporting students during menstruation
This paper is based on the results of an Australian survey of 5007 young women aged 13–25, which examined their experiences of menstruation and dysmenorrhea. It focuses specifically on participant qualitative responses to the question, “What do you think schools...
Which Period Products Are Best for the Environment? – Global Citizen
When it comes to environmental impact, not all period products are created equal. While the fight for menstrual equity and ending period poverty includes eliminating the tampon tax and ensuring all people who menstruate have access to the resources to manage their...
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