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PROGRAMME 5: PUBERTY

ACTIVITIES

Guidance

Teachers should refer to the general Guidance and undertake a group agreement before viewing the programmes and undertaking the activities.

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Discussion questions

• What changes are there emotionally during puberty?
• What changes are there socially for young people at this time?
• What are some of the myths you have heard about puberty?
• Are there any body changes that were not mentioned in the programme?
• Puberty is often described as a rite of passage. What does this mean and what are the other rites of passage in life?

Activity ideas

• Try the quick Body changes (puberty) quiz on the Brook website:
  
  www.brook.org.uk/content/
  z_sys_FaceFactsquizPage.asp?ffq_id=5&rn=1&title=Body+changes+(puberty)
  
  
• Visit the following web pages about puberty. Students can browse these pages or you can direct them to specific information or questions. Where there are separate reading sections for boys and girls, encourage the young people to read both.
  
  http://www.brook.org.uk/content/M4_6_yourbody.asp
  The facts/Your body section on the Brook website
  
  www.teenagehealthfreak.org/homepage/index.asp
  Go to Dr Anne's virtual surgery for info and Q&As on Body changes – Boys/Girls and Moods
  
  www.talk4teens.co.uk/changinbits.htm
  The Changin' bits section of the Talk4Teens website, which has info on Growing up, and Boys and Girls
  
  www.likeitis.org/puberty.html
  The Puberty section of the Like It Is website has interactive diagrams of the reproductive organs.