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HEALTH
Quarter 1- Module 3:
Discover Yourself
Health – Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 3: Discover Yourself
First Edition, 2020

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HEALTH
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Discover Yourself
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:
Welcome to Health 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Discover Yourself!
This module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by educators
both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in
helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.
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For the Learner:
Welcome to Health 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Discover Yourself!
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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank
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We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and gain
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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you master
the factors affecting one’s attitude and practices related to sexuality and sexual
behaviors. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students.
The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.

The module contains:

 Lesson 1 – Physical Activity and Physical Assessment of Family/School Peers

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. analyze the factors that affect one’s attitudes and practices related to
sexuality and sexual behaviors (H8FH-Ib-19)
a. identify the factors that affect one’s attitude and practices related to
sexuality and sexual behaviors;
b. differentiate the influential factors that affects one’s attitude and
practices related to sexuality and sexual behaviors; and
c. write a reflection on the factors that influence and affect one’s attitudes
and practices related to sexuality and sexual behaviors.

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 What I Know

I. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer in your
activity notebook.
1. It is a factor that plays a significant role in our lives as we regularly watch
television, listen to radio, search the internet and read newspaper.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

2. It is a factor of sexual behavior and sexuality that oftentimes determines

your own values.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

3. It refers to the norms and standards set by society that could affect your
values regarding sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

4. They are group of people you meet in school who can give significant impact
on your views on human sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

5. It is a way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.

A. human sexuality
B. sexuality
C. sexual attitudes
D. sexual behavior

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II. Directions: Write what is being asked in each number. Choose your answer from
the box below. (Nos. 6-10)

behavior peers decision friend gender

family media self sexuality culture

6. It is an important part of one’s personality.

7. The behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with

one’s sex.

8. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious
or social group.

9. The way in which someone conducts oneself or behaves.

10. One belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade or
status.

11. The act or process of deciding.

12. An individual’s typical character or behavior.

13. A medium of cultivation, conveyance or expression.

14. The basic unit in society.

15. One attached to another by affection or esteem.

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 Factors Affecting One’s
Lesson
Attitude and Practices
1 Related to Sexuality and
Sexual Behaviors
Your sexuality is a natural drive from birth but there are different factors that
affect one’s attitude and practices related to sexuality and other sexual behaviors.

What’s In

Perfect Match!
Directions: Match the statement in column A with the dimensions of human
sexuality in column B. Write the letter of your choice in your activity
notebook.

Column A Column B

1. It is the one that drives you to interact with others. a. emotional self

2. It is an anatomic aspect of man or woman. b. ethical self

3. It is considered as your morals or values regarding
c. mental self
relationships.
4. It is the way you think as a man or woman d. physical self
e. social self
5. It is the way you feel about yourself and others.
f. spiritual self

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 What’s New

LOOP- A-WORD
Directions: In your activity sheet, write down ten words taken from the grid, which
are related to the factors that affect one’s attitudes and practices
referring to sexuality and sexual behaviors.
Hint: Words are about attitudes and practices referring to sexuality and
sexual behaviors.
S E X U A L I T Y M
J V G Z O O M A B E
G E N D E R F C D D
K Y L F P W A H N I
O Q X G H Q M T R A
V P E E R S I U O K
S N I J N U L S P X
L S O M V A Y Q H F
N T P V Z H V K D T
C U L T U R E W Q S
B E H A V I O R M N
D E C I S I O N D O
S E L F E N O R M S
N F R M F R I E N D

Words that are formed in HORIZONTAL direction.

1. The quality of being sexual
2. The behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one
sex
3. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or
social group
4. The way in which someone conducts oneself or behaves
5. One belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade or
status
6. The act or process of deciding
7. An individual’s typical character or behavior
8. One attached to another by affection or esteem

Words that are formed in VERTICAL direction.

9. A medium of cultivation, conveyance or expression
10. The basic unit of the society.

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 What is It

Your sexuality is naturally driven within yourself from birth, but there are
factors that affect your points of view and practices in relation to your sexual
manners. In this section, we will help you understand the idea about the different
aspects that affect one’s attitude and practices related to sexuality and sexual
behaviors.

Factors that affect one’s attitude and practices related to sexuality and sexual
behaviors :

1. Family. It is a factor that oftentimes determines your family values. Family,

especially the parents are usually the first mentors of your sexual identity. They
teach you about love, kindness, and humility. The family’s relationship lays the
foundation of your personality, life options, and total behavior. It can also affect
the strength of your social, physical, mental, and emotional health. Making a
strong connection within your family is significant in nurturing yourself.

Values and expectations are just two ways that family could influence
your attitude and sexual behaviors. A family with defined values is able to
withstand against other people’s contrasting principles. You see how your
parents interact with each other, make choices, and determine right and wrong to
develop moral self in the family. However, when you have a weak and or broken
family, you may go astray and find difficulty in making right decisions and correct
actions. In some families, setting expectations toward their children provide high
regard of being successful and or sense of frustration depending on how you
manage and understand the set standards.

2. Culture. Cultural background can affect your values regarding sexuality. Sexual
identities and orientations, the contents of sexual behavior, and the social
consequences of these behaviors vary largely across cultural contexts. Cultures
all over the world recognized standards for individuals to match your sex role
prescriptions and feel psychologically well adjusted.

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 Culture looks at the entirety of any given society’s belief organization,
laws, customs, practices, language and attitudinal variables which makes people
distinctive from others. What happened when you are conditioned in the ways of
a specific culture? You start acting and behaving in ways that are seen as
suitable to such a culture. Your dress sense, grooming, language, belief system
and attitude become shaped to suit into that society which causes you to
become accepted by them. Just like for example, some ladies like wearing tiny
shorts are seen as normal, while in others, it is forbidden because of their family
and religious beliefs. Some places allow males and females to mingle freely in
public places but others do not. This has a great impact on how you adapt the
certain culture in your own community where you belong.

3. Peers. Like your family, your friends can also have an important impact on your
views on human sexuality. Peers are the one of important sources of knowledge
about sexuality, but they are not the most effective and efficient sources. As an
adolescent, you may begin to spend more time with peers – friends and
classmates in your age group. As a result, their values and beliefs may influence
you.

Choosing your peers are important because they influence you every day.
During adolescence, this influence can be mainly tough as you spend more time
away from home and you become more conscious of different values and morals
like beliefs and about right and wrong. You feel the belongingness within your
peers when you actually do the same thing what they’re doing. You feel belong
and accepted part of society by exposure to other people, their behavior and
values. This socialization is an important part of growing up.

4. Media. Media plays a significant role in your lives as you regularly watch
televisions, listen to radio, search the internet read newspaper and etc. Television
and magazines are the main educational sources of youth’s sexual relationships.

Media plays a big role in shaping our sexuality because of how they
portrait figures of females and males in music videos, magazines, commercials,
television and many more. They create exaggerated standards which influence
how you think in yourself.

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 What’s More

Activity 1. Visualize This

Directions: From the pictures below, Identify the factors that affect attitudes and
practices related to human sexuality. Write a short insight on how these
factors affect your sexual behavior.

2._____________________ 3._____________________
1.A child who grows up in a ______________________ ______________________
religious family is expected ______________________ ______________________
to be prayerful and honest. ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________
________________ ________________

4.________________________ 5._________________________
__________________________ __________________________
__________________________ __________________________
__________________________ __________________________
__________________________

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Activity 2. Say More
Directions: Answer the following questions that concern about the influences of your
sexual personality.

1.What are the factors that shape your sexual attitudes?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

2. How do these factors affect your sexual attitudes?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

3. What will you do to minimize its negative effects to your sexual attitude?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Activity 3. Analyze Media Message

Directions: Think of a specific commercial that can be seen on TV or read in a
newspaper. Observe how men and women are being portrayed. Then
answer to the following questions:

1. What is the commercial all about?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

2. What message is presented about being a man or a woman?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

3. Is the information real and accurate? Why or Why not?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

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 What I Have Learned

Has your understanding about the factors affecting one’s attitude and
practices related to sexuality and sexual behaviors changed? Express this change
by completing the phrases:

After learning these topics on …

___________________________________________________________________.

I am now convinced that …

___________________________________________________________________.

As a responsible adolescent, I will …

___________________________________________________________________.

What I Can Do

Directions: Write a journal on what factor influences your sexual attitude the most.

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

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 Assessment

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer in your
activity notebook.

1. It is a factor that plays a significant role in our lives as we regularly watch

television, listen to radio, search the internet, read newspaper, etc.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

2. It is a factor of sexual behavior and sexuality that oftentimes determine your

own values.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

3. It refers to the norms and standards set by society that could affect your
values regarding sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

4. People you meet in school that can also have a significant impact on your
views on human sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

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5. It is a way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.
A. human sexuality
B. sexuality
C. sexual attitudes
D. sexual behavior

6. These are the norms and standards set by society that could affect your
values regarding sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

7. People of your same age group who can also have a significant impact on
your views on human sexuality.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

8. It is factor that usually the first educators of the sexual identity to children and
teach them about love, kindness and humility.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

9. The following are the culture influences affecting sexual behaviors, except
one.
A. gender
B. media
C. norms and ethics
D. socioeconomic

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10. The statements below are referring to human sexuality, except one.
A. it is more about of who we are than about what we do.
B. it is the total of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual responses.
C. It is an expression of sexual sensation and intimacy between persons.
D. Comprises broad range of behavior and processes.

11. The following are the two family factors affecting sexual behaviors.
A. money and fame
B. punishments and rewards
C. technology and gadgets
D. values and expectations

12. The customary belief, social forms, religious and material traits are
components of______.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

13. A component of culture that refers to the personal conduct on how a person
acts.
A. behavior
B. environment
C. media
D. social form

14. One belonging to the same societal group that most influenced your behavior.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

15. The basic unit of society that first determine your values.
A. culture
B. family
C. media
D. peers

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 Additional Activities

Activity 1. Let’s Get Involve

Directions: In your community, interview at least four (4) people about their insights
and ideas on the influence of family, culture, peers, and media in
shaping one’s sexuality and sexual behavior. Write the answers in your
activity notebook.

Note: Always observe health protocols in doing this activity.

Guide questions for interview:

1. What significant role does your family play in shaping your personality?
2. How do your peers affect your values regarding human sexuality?
3. Why do media influence you especially on decision-making about one’s
personality?

Activity 2. Do the Acrostics

Directions: Write down words/phrases that are connected to the factors affecting
one’s attitude and practices related to sexuality and sexual behaviors
using the letters of your name.

Example: JUANITO

J-
U-
A-
N-
I-
T-
O-

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 Answer Key

What’s More What’s In What I Know

Activity 1: Answers will 1. e Activity 1

varies according to learners. 2. d
3. b 1. c
1. Family- a child who grow 4. c 2. b
up in a religious family is 5. a 3. a
expected to be prayerful, 4. d
faithful and honest. 5. a
What’s New Activity 2
2. Media and technology- 6. Sexuality
1. Sexuality
____________________ 7. Gender
2. Gender
__________________. 8. Culture
3. Culture
9. Behavior
4. Behavior
3. Peers who studied in an 10. Peers
5. Peers
exclusive school._____ 11. Decision
6. Decision
___________________. 12. Self
7. Self
4. A child who has an 13. Media
8. Media
authoritative parent in a 14. Family
9. Family
family.______________ 15. Friend
10. Friend
___________________.

5. A lady who has male

friends and neighbors
(culture)._____________
_________________.

Activity 2 What I Can Do What I Have Learned

1. Family, friends and My Family influenced me the After learning these topics
peers, culture and media most. Since childhood, they on… factors affecting one’s
2. Positive effect- enhance taught me important things attitude and practices
self-confidence and self- in life and understand the related to sexuality and
expression value of respect and love. sexual behaviors
Negative effect- peer
pressure and bad Assessment I am convinced that… there
influence for feeling of are so many factors that
belongingness Activity 1 help me mold a better
3. Choosing good friends
version of myself.
and make firm decisions. 1. c
2. b As a responsible
Activity 3 3. a adolescent, I will… always
4. d
1. Fit ‘n Right choose to think positively
5. a
2. Man and woman should and develop myself not for
6. a
be fit 7. d other people but to free
3. Yes. People are figure 8. b myself from insecurities and
conscious and prevent 9. a be successful in on own
sedentary lifestyle 10. a way.
diseases. 11. d
12. a
13. a
14. a
15. b

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