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Synopsis, Teaching-Learning Goals, and Student Learning Objectives

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Synopsis, Teaching-Learning Goals, and Student Learning Objectives n Grades 4-5-6

Puberty: The Wonder Years Grade 4 “I Wonder How Things Work”

Synopsis“I Wonder How Things Work” begins by reminding students how much they have grown and changed since they were born, and how much more growing and changing lies ahead. Guidelines for a safe and productive classroom climate are introduced, and prior knowledge about puberty is assessed. Students identify positive qualities about their families and the roles family members fill. They compare and contrast animal and human families. Students identify the normal social, emotional, and physical changes that occur during puberty and how individuals develop at different rates. The reproductive system is introduced. The unique hygiene needs that come with puberty are described. Students practice commu-nication skills with their family members and peers. The emphasis is on communication with parents and other trusted adults about puberty.

Teaching-Learning Goals and National Health Education Standards

Teaching-Learning Goals National Health Education Standard

Students will communicate with parents and other trusted adults about growing up.

• InterpersonalCommunication• AccessingInformation

Students will identify the role of families in nurturing children. • InterpersonalCommunication• AnalyzingInfluences

Students will explain how animal and human life begins. • SelfManagement

Students will describe the natural changes that occur during puberty.

• AccessingInformation• InterpersonalCommunication

Students will propose ways to care for their skin, hair, and nails as they mature.

• SelfManagement

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Grades 4-5-6 n Synopsis, Teaching-Learning Goals, and Student Learning Objectives

Student Learning Objectives

LESSON 1: A Climate for Growth

OBJECTIVES:Students will:

NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS

• Name kinds of body cells and sex cells. • Core Concepts

• Propose guidelines for discussions during the puberty lessons. • Interpersonal Communication

• Test what they already know about puberty. • Core Concepts

• Identify ways to initiate communication with their parents regarding growing up.

• AccessingInformation Interpersonal Communication

LESSON 2: Families and Roles



• Relate positive qualities they admire in their families. • Core Concepts

• Improve communication skills with their families. • Interpersonal Communication

• Examine sex roles, sex role expectations, stereotypes, and ways they can affect people.

• AnalyzingInfluences

LESSON 3: New Life



• Examine a variety of ways animals reproduce themselves. • Core Concepts

• Explainthatfertilizationmustoccurforanewlifetobegin. • Core Concepts

• Compare and contrast animal families and human families. • Core Concepts

• Explain the reasons to wait until adulthood before having a baby and making a life-long commitment to being a parent.

• SelfManagement

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LESSON 4: Growing Up Male



• Identify additional changes that occur in males during puberty. • Core Concepts

• Define the structures and functions of the male reproductive system.

• Core Concepts

• Practice their communication skills by talking with their parents or other trusted adult about puberty.


LESSON 5: Growing Up Female



• Identify additional changes that occur in females during puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Define the structures and functions of the female reproductive system.

• Core Concepts



LESSON 6: Changes in the Skin



• Summarizechallengesincaringfortheirskin,hair,andnailsduring puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Propose ways to care for their skin, hair, and nails as they mature.

• SelfManagement

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Puberty: The Wonder Years Grade 5 “I Wonder What Is Happening to Me”

Synopsis“IWonderWhatIsHappeningtoMe”beginsbyreviewingpriorknowledgeaboutpubertyanddevelopingguidelines for a safe and productive classroom climate. Students learn about the male and female repro-ductive systems and the changes that occur during puberty. To care for their changing bodies, the students learn new personal hygiene and health habits. Students practice communicating with their family members, analyzingmediainfluencesforsexualmessages,andclarifyingmisinformationandpromotinghealthybehavior among their peers. The emphasis is on promoting respect for peers as they experience puberty, impressing young people with the awe and responsibility of becoming physically capable of reproduction, and the importance of postponing sexual intercourse.



Students will communicate with parents and other trusted adults about puberty and postponing parenthood.


Students will review the natural changes that occur during puberty.

• InterpersonalCommunication• AnalyzingInfluences

Students will explain the anatomy and functions of the male and female reproductive systems.

• InterpersonalCommunication

Students will discuss the importance of safeguarding the health of their reproductive system.


Students will describe respectful treatment of peers. • AnalyzingInfluences• SelfManagement

Studentswillapplytheirmedialiteracyskillsforanalyzingmessages about sexuality

• AccessingInformation• AnalyzingInfluences• InterpersonalCommunication

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LESSON 1: Ready, Set, Grow!



• List changes that will occur as they grow and mature. • Core Concepts

• Formulate guidelines for discussions during the puberty lessons.

• Interpersonal Communication

• Assesswhattheyalreadyknowaboutpuberty. • Core Concepts

• Develop a plan for improving communication with their parents regarding changes in puberty.

• AccessingInformation• Interpersonal Communication

LESSON 2: Puberty and the Male Reproductive System



• Summarizewhattheyknowaboutgrowingup. • Core Concepts

• Identify physical and emotional changes occurring during puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Define the structures and functions of the male reproductive system.

• Core Concepts

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LESSON 3: Puberty and the Female Reproductive System



• Define the structures and functions of the female reproductive system.

• Core Concepts



LESSON 4: Reproduction



• Review the structures and functions of the male and female reproductive systems.

• Core Concepts

• Describe the changes that indicate an individual is physically capable of reproduction.

• Core Concepts

LESSON 5: Personal Hygiene and Healthy Habits



• Distinguish between accurate and inaccurate sources of information about puberty.

• AccessingInformation

• Demonstrate the intent to implement personal hygiene and healthy habits.

• SelfManagement

• Select their personal reasons for postponing sexual intercourse. • AnalyzingInfluences

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LESSON 6: Social and Emotional Changes



• Identify social and emotional changes occurring during puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Describe normal variations in individual rates of change during puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Examine case studies and plan ways to respect a peer who is going through an awkward stage of puberty.

• AnalyzingInfluences SelfManagement

LESSON 7: Media Messages



• Critique advertisements and popular music for the presence of messages about sexuality.


• Compose advice for their peers to encourage accurate information and healthy behavior.


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Puberty: The Wonder Years Grade 6 “I Wonder What Happens Next”

Synopsis“I Wonder What Happens Next” lessons begin with a review of prior knowledge about puberty and devel-opment of guidelines for a safe and productive classroom climate. Students learn about reproduction, fetal development, reproductive anatomy and physiology, and the social-emotional changes in puberty. Students learn to differentiate between respectful, healthy relationships versus disrespectful, unhealthy relationships. Students practice interpersonal skills for healthy relationships and refusal skills for risky sexual situations. The emphasis is on motivating young people to make behavioral choices that will keep themselves healthy now and for future reproductive health. Optional lessons are provided on genetics, refusal skills, and risk reduction strategies.

Four additional optional lessons are provided on genetics, standing up to peer pressure, and prevention of disease and pregnancy. Because students at this age are becoming more independent and social, some will be on the cusp of making decisions regarding sexual activity; thus, they will benefit from the additional instructional time and skill-building practice that comes with the additional optional lessons.



Students will communicate with parents and other trusted adults about puberty, relationships, and their expectations.

• InterpersonalCommunication

Studentswillexaminetheinfluenceofgenetics,environment,andlifestyle on health and development of the human fetus.

• CoreConcepts• AnalyzingInfluences

Students will review the physical, social, and emotional changes of puberty.

• CoreConcepts• InterpersonalCommunication

Students will discuss the benefits of delaying sexual intercourse and parenthood until adulthood and possibly marriage.

• InterpersonalCommunication• Advocacy

Students will improve communication and refusal skills to form respectful peer relationships.

• InterpersonalCommunication• SelfManagement

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LESSON 1: Growing Together



• Recall prior knowledge about puberty. • Core Concepts

• Compose guidelines for discussions during the puberty lessons. • Core Concepts

• Develop a plan for improving communication with parents or other trusted adults regarding growing up.


LESSON 2: Fetal Development



• Explain how heredity and environment impact fetal development.


• Describe the developmental milestones of a developing fetus. • Core Concepts

• List factors that increase the likelihood of being able to bear healthy children in the future.

• Core Concepts

• Recommend lifestyle choices that will favorably affect a developing fetus.


LESSON 3: How My Body Works



• Explain the anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive systems.

• Core Concepts

• Practice communicating with parents and other caring adults about sexual behavior and relationships.


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LESSON 4: Emotions and Relationships



• Explain typical social and emotional changes that occur during puberty.

• Core Concepts

• Analyzethesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenfriendshipsand romantic relationships.

• Core Concepts

• Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships

• Core Concepts

• Describe ways to show affection that demonstrate respect. • Interpersonal Communication

LESSON 5: Relationship Challenges



• Practice ways to demonstrate respect in relationships. • SelfManagement

• Identify what to do in disrespectful situations. • Interpersonal Communication

• Discuss disrespectful behaviors that target gender and sexual orientation.

• Core Concepts

• Describe bullying and cyber bullying and practice appropriate responses to bullying behaviors.


LESSON 6: Making Responsible Decisions



• Identify reasons some young people might have sexual intercourse and recommend alternatives.

• Core Concepts

• List the risks of having sexual intercourse and reasons to delay sexual intercourse as adolescents.

• Core Concepts

• Identify the benefits of abstaining from sexual intercourse as adolescents.

• Core Concepts

• Advocateforpeerstodelaysexuntiladulthood. • Advocacy

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LESSON 7: Growing Strong



• Practice peer refusal skills and how to avoid trouble in situations involving sexual risk.


• Deduce that parenthood should be reserved for adults who are able to make a life-long commitment to raising a child.

• SelfManagement

Optional LessonsThese lessons are optional because they are not critical to the primary goals of Puberty: The Wonder Years. Some have been included because the topics are often included in puberty education; others address issues thatsome,butnotall,schoolswanttoaddress.Theyextendthelearninginthecorelessons.Accesstheselessons online at www.PubertyCurriculum.com.

LESSON 6-A: Building Blocks of Life (Teach following Lesson 6-2)



• Describe prenatal development from a single cell to a complex organism.

• Core Concepts

• Review the anatomy of human body cells and the roles of chromosomes,DNA,andgenesasthebasicunitsofheredity.

• Core Concepts

• Compare and contrast human body cells with reproductive cells. • Core Concepts

• Explain how sex is determined by the X and Y chromosomes received from the egg and sperm cells.

• Core Concepts

• Assessthemselvesforthepresenceofinheritedtraits. • Core Concepts

LESSON 6-B: Dominant or Recessive? Identical or Fraternal? (Teach following Lesson 6-2)



• Explain the difference between dominant and recessive traits. • Core Concepts

• Draw diagrams that illustrate possible combinations of dominant and recessive traits in offspring.

• Core Concepts

• Compare and contrast identical twins and fraternal twins. • Core Concepts

• Distinguish between the roles of heredity, environment, and lifestyle on their health by making a personal commitment to a healthy lifestyle choice.

• AnalyzingInfluences• SelfManagement

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LESSON 6-C: Skill Development: Identify Trouble and Refusal (Teach prior to Lesson 6-7)



• Learn and practice the steps for avoiding trouble. • Interpersonal Communication

• Learn and practice effective refusal skills. • Interpersonal Communication

LESSON 6-D: Preventing Pregnancy and STIs (Teach following Lesson 6-7)



• Describe the potential negative consequences of having sexual intercourse.

• Core Concepts

• Explain ways to eliminate or reduce the risks of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

• SelfManagement

• Demonstrate ways to locate accurate information and assistance related to sexual behavior and its consequences.

• AccessingInformation

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