HEALTH

Grade 8
BASIC TERMS
Gender
✓ a social concept on how men and women
should think, feel and act. It refers to
femininity and masculinity of a person’s
role and behavior
Sex
✓ the biological basis of being male or
female
BASIC TERMS
Sexuality/ Human Sexuality
✓ the quality of being male or female. It is in
the way in which we experience and
express ourselves as sexual beings
✓ the total expression of an individual’s self-
concept
BASIC TERMS
Gender Equality
✓ permits man and woman equal enjoyment
of human rights
Gender Role
✓ refers to set of roles, characteristics, and
expectations of a how a man or woman
should feel, think, and act as influenced by
parents, peers, and society
SEXUALITY ALSO
✓ refers to your attitudes and behavior
towards yourself and towards others

✓ it is how you see yourself and others

✓ it is how you feel about yourself and others
✓ it is how you think of yourself and think of
other
✓ it is how you love yourself and love others
DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
Physical Self The way you look as a man or a woman
Mental Self The way you think as a man or a woman
Social Self The way you interact with others
Emotional Self The way you feel about yourself and others

Ethical
Self The way you value relationships
CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTHY SEXUALITY
A. Self-Love
✓ your acceptance of your self
B. Self-Knowledge
✓ understanding of feelings and character
C. Self-Confidence
✓ awareness of the things you can do well
CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTHY SEXUALITY
D. Self-Respect
✓ your regard to yourself as a worthwhile
person
E. Self-Expression
✓ your way of showing your individuality in
expressing yourself as a man or as a
woman
Factors that Affect One’s Attitudes and
Behaviors
A. Self
✓ appreciates own body
✓ takes responsibility for own behaviors
✓ knowledgeable about sexuality issues
Factors that Affect One’s Attitudes and
Behaviors
B. Family
✓ communicates effectively with the family
✓ able to express love to family members
✓ performs duties and responsibilities at
home
Factors that Affect One’s Attitudes and
Behaviors
C. Peers
✓ express love and intimacy in appropriate
ways
✓ have the skills to evaluate readiness for
mature relationship
✓ interact with both gender in appropriate
and respectful ways
Life Skills to Improve Sexual Health
Assessing Your Health evaluating well-being periodically

Making Good Decisions making healthy choices

LIFE SKILLS

Communicating Effectively include talking and listening skills

Practicing Wellness knowledge on good sexuality

something that gives sense of
Setting Goals accomplishment

Using Refusal Skills constructive way of saying no

able to judge the worth of media
Evaluating Media Messages messages
DECISION MAKING
Decision
✓ is a choice you make or act upon
✓ a good decision is a decision in which you
have carefully considered the outcome of
each choice
Six Steps of Decision Making
D – determine the problem
E – explore the alternatives
C – consider the consequences
I – identify your values
D – Decide
E - Evaluate
Six Steps of Decision Making
Example:
Your classmates are going to a party this
weekend. This is the first time that you are asked
to attend by a friend, but then you discern that
your parents will not approve it. You don’t want to
make your friends angry by not going, but you
also don’t want to get trouble with your parents.
Determine what decision you should make.
Six Steps of Decision Making
D – attend the party or not
E – talk to friends and explain or talk to parents and
explain
- attend the party but make sure to go home early
C – friends will get angry; get trouble with parents
I – I value family the most
D – will not attend the party and explain your decisions
to your friend in a friendly manner
E – happy and satisfied you maintained harmonious
relationship with parents and friends
ACTIVITY : MY GRAFFITI
(Graffiti is an art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or
other surface)

On your oslo paper, WRITE ALL the things you LIKE

in life, your PASSION, and INTERESTS.
Make your work colorful using your coloring
materials.
Example of Graffiti Art