puberty

This lesson plan provides teachers with a quick and easy approach to puberty for elementary grade children. It may be used as an introduction to puberty or as a review of the physical changes and practical coping strategies. Teachers may want to supplement this lesson with some of the more comprehensive plans available on the website.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 1
Establish a comfort level and begin to examine puberty changes.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 2
Examine puberty changes, and discover those that are unique to one gender and those that are common to both genders.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 3
Review puberty changes and identify support people to assist with puberty change.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 4
Examine puberty and personal hygiene.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 5
Answer some difficult questions about dealing with puberty, and begin to create a positive self-image for the future.

Grade 4: Puberty Changes Lesson 6
Ensure comfort with puberty changes, and celebrate the person each student will become as they experience the changes of puberty.

Grade 5: Anatomy and Physiology Lesson 1
Review puberty changes from grade four and begin to study the basic components of the male and female reproductive system.

Junior (7-9): Sexual Development Quick Lesson

This lesson plan provides teachers with a quick and easy approach to puberty for Junior High. It may be used as a review for students who investigated puberty at the elementary level or as a starting point for students who have not yet covered the topic. Teachers may want to supplement this lesson with some of the more comprehensive plans available on the website.

Junior (7-9): Le développement sexuel leçon rapide
Le présent plan de leçon vise à fournir au personnel enseignant une méthode simple et rapide d'aborder la puberté au cycle intermédiaire. Il peut servir de révision aux élèves qui ont étudié la puberté au palier élémentaire ou comme point de départ aux élèves qui n'ont pas encore étudié ce sujet.

Grade 7: Sexual Development Lesson 2
An opportunity to examine changes that occur during puberty, to identify misunderstandings associated with sexual development, and to identify sources of good information and support.

Grade 8: Rates of Puberty Change Lesson 1
Accept that different rates of puberty change and differences between individuals are normal.

Grade 8: Rates of Puberty Change Lesson 2
Examine the physical, emotional, sexual and social changes that occur during puberty, and recognize and accept that these changes may occur at different rates for different people.

Grade 9: Coping with Development Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on evaluating personal feelings about puberty change, examining the impact of negative self-esteem, and identifying strategies to cope with negative feelings about physical, emotional, sexual and social development.

Grade 9: Coping with Development Lesson 2
The second lesson in this series focuses on identifying and applying healthy coping strategies when experiencing different rates of physical, emotional, sexual and social development.