Changes in male bodies during puberty
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This lessons supports curriculum codes:
- ABLEWA Stage D (VCHPEP030)
- Year 5 (ACPPS052)
- Year 6 (ACPPS052)
- Year 7 (ACPPS071)
Overview
This lesson aims to teach and assess the physical changes that occur for boys during puberty.
Foundation Knowledge for this lesson includes differentiation of male and female bodies; awareness of age and body differences between babies, children, adolescents, and adults; and public and private body parts.
Generalisation Ideas
- Sorting: changes in boys and changes in girls
- Draw changes on an outline of a body; make a full body chart by lying down on a long length of paper and tracing around
- Ordering by age: babies to adults; personalise by using images of your student/family member
- Normalise changes: use quiet moments to comment on how growing up happens to everyone
- Getting help: who can you talk to about body changes?
- Consequences: what happens at the end of puberty? what are the differences between boys and men, girls and women; what do you have to do differently with your body now you that you sweat more/have more hair/have grown out of your clothes?
- Flipside: what happens if you talk about puberty changes to a stranger? what happens if you let the hair grow on your face?
- Changes on the inside: move on to understanding how hormones affect the body e.g. moodiness, attraction, tiredness