Unit 4--- Puberty Education --- Taught in the spring
MSC Standard: Students will demonstrate the ability to use human development knowledge, social skills, and health-enhancing strategies to promote positive relationships and healthy growth and development throughout the life cycle.
Objectives-The student will be able to:
a.Identify expectations for a positive classroom environment for puberty education.
b.Identify ways to communicate issues related to puberty with the family.
c.Describe the role society plays in the perception of normal body image.
d.Define “puberty” and describe how it affects the male and female body.
e.Examine the effects of puberty on emotional and social growth.
f.Examine the transition from behavior and attitudes of childhood to the behavior, attitudes, and responsibilities of the adolescent.
Puberty Education Parent Resources
1. Siecus web site – EXCELLENT <http://www.siecus.org
a. Has a section entitled Sexuality Education in the Home: A Guide provides a list of additional resources
2. How to Talk With Teens About Love, Relationships, and S-E-X: A Guide for Parents by Amy G. Miron, M.S. and Charles D. Miron, Ph.D.
3. Get Out of My Life – but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall? A Parent’s guide to the New Teenager By Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D
4. Early Adolescence – Understanding the 10 – 15 year old By Gila A Caissy
5. Questions Kids Ask About SEX: Honest Answers for Every Age The Medical Institute for Sexual Health Edited by Melissa R. Cox
6. The Real Truth About Teens & Sex by Sabrina Weill
7. Sex and Sensibility by Deborah Roffman
8. But How’d I Get There in the First Place? by Deborah Roffman
Written For Children (with good information for parents)
1. The “What’s Happening to my Body?” book for Girls by Lynda Madaras
2. The “What’s Happening to my Body?” book for Boys by Lynda Madaras
3. Don’t Sweat It! Every BODY’S Answers to Questions You Don’t want to Ask by Marguerite Crump
4. What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle
5. The Period Book: Everything You Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Know) by Karen Gravelle
6. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
7. It’s So Amazing by Robie H. Harris
Objectives-The student will be able to:
a.Identify expectations for a positive classroom environment for puberty education.
b.Identify ways to communicate issues related to puberty with the family.
c.Describe the role society plays in the perception of normal body image.
d.Define “puberty” and describe how it affects the male and female body.
e.Examine the effects of puberty on emotional and social growth.
f.Examine the transition from behavior and attitudes of childhood to the behavior, attitudes, and responsibilities of the adolescent.
Puberty Education Parent Resources
1. Siecus web site – EXCELLENT <http://www.siecus.org
a. Has a section entitled Sexuality Education in the Home: A Guide provides a list of additional resources
2. How to Talk With Teens About Love, Relationships, and S-E-X: A Guide for Parents by Amy G. Miron, M.S. and Charles D. Miron, Ph.D.
3. Get Out of My Life – but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall? A Parent’s guide to the New Teenager By Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D
4. Early Adolescence – Understanding the 10 – 15 year old By Gila A Caissy
5. Questions Kids Ask About SEX: Honest Answers for Every Age The Medical Institute for Sexual Health Edited by Melissa R. Cox
6. The Real Truth About Teens & Sex by Sabrina Weill
7. Sex and Sensibility by Deborah Roffman
8. But How’d I Get There in the First Place? by Deborah Roffman
Written For Children (with good information for parents)
1. The “What’s Happening to my Body?” book for Girls by Lynda Madaras
2. The “What’s Happening to my Body?” book for Boys by Lynda Madaras
3. Don’t Sweat It! Every BODY’S Answers to Questions You Don’t want to Ask by Marguerite Crump
4. What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle
5. The Period Book: Everything You Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Know) by Karen Gravelle
6. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
7. It’s So Amazing by Robie H. Harris
Parent Resources: from our Quarter 2 unit on Sexual Child Abuse
Book
1. Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin DeBecker
Web Sites
1. Child Abuse: Prevention through Education and Awareness www.childabuse.com
2. The Child Safety Institute (CAPS) www.kidsafe-caps.org
3. Child Lures Program www.childlures.com
4. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children www.missingkids.com
5. Safer Child Inc. www.safetchild.org
6. Wired Safety (Internet safety) www.wiredsafety.org
7. Mental Health Matters www.mental-health-matters.com
8. Prevent Child Abuse America www.preventchildabuse.org
9. Dr. P. Body’s Learning Fun Center www.drpbody.com
Book
1. Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin DeBecker
Web Sites
1. Child Abuse: Prevention through Education and Awareness www.childabuse.com
2. The Child Safety Institute (CAPS) www.kidsafe-caps.org
3. Child Lures Program www.childlures.com
4. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children www.missingkids.com
5. Safer Child Inc. www.safetchild.org
6. Wired Safety (Internet safety) www.wiredsafety.org
7. Mental Health Matters www.mental-health-matters.com
8. Prevent Child Abuse America www.preventchildabuse.org
9. Dr. P. Body’s Learning Fun Center www.drpbody.com