Teacher(s): Tiffany Munoz, Rebecca Cruz, Morgan Schafer Title of Lesson: Puberty (girls) Topic: Puberty for Girls Grade Level: Fifth Grade Behavioral outcomes/Performance indicators/Objectives: Obj. 1 Students will be become more familiar with the female body. Obj. 2 Students will be able to identify and describe the changes that occur to the female body during puberty. Obj. 3 Students will learn what to expect when going through the changes of puberty _________________________________________________________________________________ Health TEKS (at least 2): (2) Health information (B) identify and describe changes in male and female anatomy that occur during puberty. (3) Health information (B) demonstrate ways to communicate health information such as posters, videos, and brochures. (6) Influencing factors. (A) distinguish between healthy and harmful influences of friends and others; (9) Personal/interpersonal skills (B) assess the role of assertiveness, refusal skills, and peer pressure on decision making and problem solving; National Health Education Standards (NHES) (at least 2): 1, 2, 7 Multiple Intelligence(s) (at least 2): Bodily/Kinesthetic, Verbal/Linguistic, Interpersonal AND Intrapersonal Cross-Curriculum (List subject(s)): Language Arts- Physical Education- Game: The Great Wind Blows Rules: _________________________________________________________________________________ Lead-In/Motivation: Before starting
Puberty in essence is a life changing event for males and females, typically following a time of significant physical growth. Puberty is the stage in life when secondary sex characteristics are developing, sexual organs mature due to production of sex hormones. This naturally occurs during adolescence, the stage in life between childhood and adulthood. Nonetheless, Feldman (2014) points out the fact that physical changes begin earlier for girls typically at the age of 10, with sexual organ development generally around the ages of 11-12. On the other hand, physical changes for boys, frequently occurs later, around the age of 12, with development of sexual organs around the age of 13-14. Nevertheless there has been a trend towards early maturation of both male and females, this can bring about advantages and disadvantages for both sexes (Feldman, 2014). This author will discuss the pros and cons of early versus late maturation in boys versus girls in 21st century U.S. society as well as how media reinforces maturation for pre-teens and teens.
Puberty refers to the adolescent physiological development and psychological development period of rapid change, the transition from childhood period to adulthood; a critical period of life and worldview is gradually formed. Usually is after the child 10 years old. In the transition to adult sexual development, performance, body, and an important period of heart full development characterize sexual maturity. Sexual maturity is the core of puberty.
Health promotion can be accomplished in various environments. Schools can be utilized for education purposes. Films, brochures, lectures, and class discussions can be routes of teaching about nutrition, hygiene, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and abuse. Health departments can distribute pamphlets concerning the importance of vaccinations and preventive strategies against sexually transmitted diseases. Hospitals and medical clinics can conduct health fairs that offer free blood pressure evaluations and cholesterol screenings. They can also educate the public about the serious signs and symptoms of a heart attack, stroke, dehydration, and heat exhaustion.
As children move from adolescence to young adulthood, they encounter dramatic physical, emotional, and lifestyle changes. Developmental transitions, such as puberty and increasing
Thus, concluding that the explanation of biological, psychodynamic and learning approaches does influence on gender development. Each of these approaches explains how gender is developed in their own way. From the biological approach, we found out that gender differences are seen as resulting from sex differences. In other words, women and men act, think and feel differently because of differences in how their brains work. These brain differences may result from chromosomal differences and may also be the result of hormonal differences.
Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism published an article by Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis and Daniel Klink titled Adolescents with gender dysphoria in 2015. The article discusses the increase of youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receiving medical treatment and possibly surgery as well. The authors stressed the importance for psychotherapy and/or family therapy. The article also discussed the factors that influence gender development psychological, social, and biological. There are not many studies on determinants of gender dysphoria, and no epidemiological studies in children younger than 15 exist at all. Although, more recently research has focused on histological and brain imagining studies on individuals diagnosed
Chapters eleven and twelve of HDEV: Human Development book talks about adolescence. Rathus explains the physical, social, emotional, ways of life and how they develop. Adolescence age group are ages eleven to nineteen (Rathus, 2016). Many adolescents do not get along with their parents. Adolescents’ sex hormones are very active during this part of their lives, which is part of the puberty stage of growing up (Rathus, 2016).The boys and girls have different sex characteristics that makes having babies possible (Rathus, 2016). Growth spurt that involve height, shows significantly in boys. The gender of boys start growing a few years after girls hit their growth spurts (Ranthus, 2016). Weight also increases.
During puberty, testosterone increases and the body becomes more sensitive and it begins to respond to the increase in testosterone. Sex organs, such as the scrotum and the penis tend to grow larger, and secondary sex characteristics, such as a deeper voice become more prevalent (Live
The psychological, social and physiological changes occur between conception and the age of 21; puberty is physical in which the child’s body develops into and adult body allow of sexual reproduction. It initiated by the hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads in girls are ovaries and in boys testes. Physical growth is the height and weights the first half of the puberty is ended when an adult body has been developed. Until maturation of their reproductive capabilities, pubertal physical differences between boys and girls are external sex organs.
• Friendships and relationships • Hobbies and clubs Intellectual: • Understanding maturation Physical: • Puberty changes • Physically moving through each transition, moving though nursery and school.
There are many major physical changes that take place during the course of adolescence. Many would argue that the most prominent changes involve puberty and the endocrine system. The various endocrine glands present in the body begin to secrete hormones that influence puberty and initiate physical changes such as: brain development,
Describe the major hormonal changes that occur during adolescence. Describe girls’ reactions to menarche and boys’ reactions to spermarche during puberty. What factors influence the way adolescents respond? Describe the impact of puberty on parent–c hild interaction and the adaptive value of this change in adolescents’ relationships with their parents.
Adolescence years is a transition time when the body is undergoing many significant changes, such as
The physiological changes that take place between the ages of 9 and 15 are easily recognized as the adolescent growth spurt. These hormonal changes include the body's rapid growth rate; the growth of pubic hair; a more visual appearance of armpit hair. There are also changes in the functioning of the reproductive organs; the mammary glands in girls; and development of the sweat glands, which can cause acne breakouts. In both sexes, these physiological changes happen at different rates and times. This period of life can be stressful for a preteen. For me, I was particularly embarrassed about all the new found body hair and excess sweating. During this stage of life, appearance is deemed of high importance. Everyone wants to look and feel attractive. A teen who develops early or late can take on a lot of teasing from his or her peers.
From ages 8-9 children will increased body strength and co-ordination and have a quicker reaction time, they can ride a two-wheeled bike, skip more freely, enjoy active, energetic games and sports, and will enjoy participating in competitive sports. They will have more control over small muscles and therefore write and draw with greater skill, drawing with more details, and are beginning to join letters together in handwriting. Age 10 and 11 years will differ in physical maturity because girls experience puberty earlier generally as much as 2 years ahead of boys, they will start to have body’s proportions that are becoming like those of adults. During adolescence, young people go through many changes as they move from childhood into teenagers, between the ages of 11-16 young girl’s breasts will have started to develop and will have fully develop between 12-18 years old. A girl’s menstrual cycle may start as early as 10 years old and as late as 15. Pubic, armpit hair and underarm hair will grow like that of an adult. At 13-14 years, boys may notice that their testicles and scrotum are growing and by the age 16 or 17 the genitals are usually at their adult size. Armpit, pubic, leg, chest, and facial hair