National Health Education Standards: Healthy Sexual Relationships

Topic: Healthy Relationships

Grade Level: 8th Grade

Core Idea: promoting healthy sexual relationships

Health Behavior Outcomes for promoting sexual health

• HBO 1. Establish and maintain healthy relationships.
• HBO 2. BE sexually abstinate
• HBO 3. Egange in behaviors that prevent or reduce sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s), including HIV infection
• HBO 4. Engange in behaviors that prevent or reduce unintended pregnacy.
• HBO 5. Avoid pressuring others to engage in sexual behaviors
• HBO 6. Support others to avoid or reduce sexual risk behaviors.
• HBO 7. Treat others with courtesy and respect without regard to sexual status.
• HBO 8. Utiliize appropriate health service to prompt sexual health.

NHES Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

• 8.1 Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
• 8.2 Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
• 8.3 Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
• 8.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

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CCSS 1: Anatomy, Reproduction, and Pregnancy 

• Se1.6 Identify parts of the reproductive systems.
• Se1.7a Describe reproductive systems including body parts and functions.
• Se1.7b Describe the stages if a pregnancy from fertilization to birth.
• Se.8a Summarize reproductive systems and their functions, including the path or an egg during ovulation and the path of sperm during ejaculation.
• Se.8b Identify physical, emotional, and social effects of sexual activity.

CCSS 2: Puberty and Development 

• Se2.6 Identify physical, social, mental, and emotional changed that occur during puberty.
• Se2.7 Recognize that there are individual differences in growth and development.
• Se2.8 Describe the physical, social, mental, and emotional changes that occur during adolescence.

CCSS 3: Self-Identity 

• Se3.6 Understand the range of gender roles, identity, and expression across cultures.
• Se3.7 Distinguish between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
• Se3.8 Recognize external influences that shape attitudes about gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

CCSS 4: Prevention 

• Se4.6a Define abstinence and explain why it is the most effective method to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STDs), including HIV.
• Se4.6b Explain how STDs are transmitted.
• Se4.6c Identify examples of protective factors and risk behaviors.
• Se4.7a List and describe commonly used methods of birth control, including abstinence.
• Se4.7b Describe methods to prevent the transmission of STDs/HIX, including abstinence.
• Se4.7c Understand that all STDs are treatable and many are curable.
• Se4.7 Identify medically accurate information about STDs.
• Se4.7 Identify a decision-making model that can be used to make a health-related decision.
• Se4.7d Describe characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• Se4.8a Summarize ways to prevent pregnancy and STDs.
• Se4.8 List steps to using a condom correctly.
• Se4.8 Identify medically accurate resources about contraceptive methods, STDs/HIV, and pregnancy.
• Se4.8b Summarize signs, symptoms, and potential impact, and treatment of STDs.
• Se4.8 Use a decision-making model to make a health-related decision.
• Se4.8c Compare and contrast potential outcomes of risk behaviors and protective factors.
• Se4.8 Describe personal role in protecting one’s own sexual and reproductive health.

CCSS 5: Healthy Relationships 

• Se5.6 Explain importance of talking with a family member and other trusted adults about relationships.
• Se5.6a Identify ways to communicate effectively in a variety of relationships.
• Se56b Recognize that everyone had the right to set boundaries based on personal values.
• Se5.7 Describe characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• Se5.7a Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
• Se5.7b Explain importance of setting personal boundaries and showing respect for the boundaries and values of others.
• Se5.8a Explain how to build and maintain healthy family, peer, and sating relationships.
• Se5.8b Define sexual consent and identify ways that consent can be communicated and accepted.
• Se8.8 Analyze the impact of technology and social media on friendships and relationships.
• Se5.8 Develop a plan to communicate and maintain personal boundaries and values.

CCSS 6: Washington State Laws 

• Se6.6a Understand which sexual health care services are available to youth.
• Se6.6b Understand that there are behaviors that constitute sexual offenses.