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Created Sexual: Male and Female. ….male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27. Created Sexual: Male and Female. What does sexual mean? What does sexuality mean? Why is sexuality a wonderful gift? In what ways are males and females different? In what ways are they the same?
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Created Sexual: Male and Female ….male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
Created Sexual: Male and Female • What does sexual mean? • What does sexuality mean? • Why is sexuality a wonderful gift? • In what ways are males and females different? • In what ways are they the same? • What do you already know about the powers of life and love that God gives to men and women?
Systems • Digestive • Circulatory • Respiratory • Muscular • urinary • Nervous • skeletal
Reproductive system • Different than all other systems • It is the system that allows people to procreate – but not until after you have reached puberty • Girls, boys, men and women all eat, breathe, digest, and direct their bodies with their brains in the same way. But the reproductive systems of males and females are quite different • The reproductive system of men and women can’t work alone – both are required to create new life • The main purpose of all our other body systems is to keep us alive. The main purpose of the reproductive system is to create new life. Your parents share in God’s power to create and give you your life
Psalm 139:13-14 For it was you who formed my inward parts. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Family Reproductive System Vocabulary • Vulva • Cervix • Ovaries • Fallopian tubes
Male Reproductive System Vocabulary • Urethra • Scrotum • Testicles • Vas deferens
Review 4 unique characteristics of the human reproductive system • Reporductive systems of males and females are quite different • This system cannot work alone, and requires both sexes • Other systems keep us alive; this system creates new life
Human Fertility • Learning Goal: We are learning to: • identify the main features of female and male fertility • Recognize and appreciate the power of human fertility and the responsibility to use it according to God’s plan
Fertility Vocabulary • Fertility • Procreate • Cycle • Menstruation • Semen • Ejaculation • Erection • Fertilization • implantation
Our responsibilities to our sexuality • Sexual intercourse belongs only in a relationship of committed and faithful married love • It is a profoundly intimate and personal act that has the potential to create new life • It is the sharing in the creative power of God • Fertility is a gift that is meant to be valued and used according to God’s plan Why is fertility such a big responsibility?
Female fertility • The development of a thick lining in the uterus • The release of an ovum into one of the fallopian tubes • The shedding of the lining when there is no pregnancy • The concept of an adult woman’s cycle
Male Fertility • The development of male fertility some time after puberty • The meaning of semen • The meaning of ejaculation and erection • The reproductive and urinary role of the urethra in males
Puberty Begins • We are learning to: • Identify the physical changes of puberty for girls and boys • Recognize that there is a wide range at which the physical changes of puberty occur
Puberty Vocabulary • Pituitary gland • Hormone • Pubic hair • Nocturnal emission
Homework • The Physical Changes of Puberty hand out • Write a journal entry about becoming a mother or father in the future. What do you think it would be like to be a parent? What do you think the challenges would be? What do you think the joys will be? What will you do the same as your parents? What will you do differently?