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Lesson 20: Summary and Review

Objectives:

Students will:

  • Recognize that good decision-making is often very difficult but that it does lead to good health, personal safety and happiness.
  • Describe the changes of puberty as positive, healthy and normal.
  • Recognize that it's OK to continue asking questions even though the formal class on this topic is ending.

Vocabulary: No new vocabulary introduced.

Materials: Picture Cards 31 and 32 or 33, tests, worksheet #10, Picture Cards 2-6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 20, 21, paper to make signs

Procedure:

  1. Read Picture Cards 31 and 32 and go over discussion questions. Picture Card 33 can be used with, or in place of, Picture Card 32.

    2. Activities to review the whole unit.

  2. Give review test. See Appendix pages 106-117
  3. Give each student or a small group of students Picture Cards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 20 and 21 shuffled up. Ask them to sort the cards into 2 piles. One pile should represent changes that everyone can see and talk about and the other pile should be the private changes of puberty.
  4. Decision Walk. Hang two signs on opposite walls in the classroom. One sign should say "Normal" and the other should say "Tell Someone". In this activity, students decide whether the following experiences are a normal part of puberty or if they are concerns that need to be reported. (N = Normal, Tell = Tell Someone)
    1. A 13-year-old boy has not gotten tall yet like all of his friends. (N)
    2. A 15-year-old boy grows 4 inches in just 6 months. (N)
    3. A 12-year-old boy who has not made the changes of puberty does not grow at all for 1 year. (Tell)
    4. A short 13-year-old boy goes to buy new shoes and the man says he's up to men's size 11. (N)
    5. A boy has a sore throat and a cough. (Tell)
    6. A boy's voice is changing and he feels like he can't control it.

      7. Sometimes it's high and sometimes it's low. (N)

    7. A teenager begins to grow hair in his armpits. (N)
    8. A teenager begins to grow hair on his chest, shoulders and back. (N)
    9. A teenager who is 18 does not have any hair on his chest, shoulders or back. (N)
    10. A teen who is 18 still does not need to shave his face except every week or so. (N)
    11. A boy notices that his feet and hands sweat almost as much as under his arms. (N)
    12. A boy still has a few pimples even though he washes his face and eats healthy foods. (N)
    13. A boy's acne covers his face and it never seems to get any better. He also has it on his chest and back. (Tell)
    14. A boy feels sad and depressed all the time. He hates his life. (Tell)
    15. A boy feels grouchy and upset and he doesn't know why. (N)
    16. A boy's scrotum has grown but his penis has not. (N)
    17. A boy who has blond hair grows brown pubic hair. (N)
    18. One day a boy has an erection for no reason at all. (N)
    19. A boy has a wet dream. (N)
    20. A boy has a wet dream almost every night. (N)
    21. A boy notices some red sores on his scrotum. (Tell)
    22. A friend tries to touch a boy's penis in the restroom at school. (Tell)