Lesson 2: Understanding Our Bodies The Basics
This lesson will allow students to identify body parts and why it’s important to understand the correct names for those parts.
This lesson will allow students to identify body parts and why it’s important to understand the correct names for those parts.
Utilizing the “Teacher’s Guide: Changes of Puberty,” teachers will talk to the students about puberty and how it has to do with all the ways our bodies change to prepare us for becoming adults.
It’s important to note that this lesson uses more inclusive terms related to gender identity and biological sex, which is introduced in subsequent grade levels.
In this lesson, teachers will describe how puberty prepares human bodies for the potential to reproduce as well as the process of human reproduction with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation.
This lesson defines the physical, emotional, cognitive and social changes of adolescence and students, in small groups, try to sort the various changes into these four categories.
This lesson reviews the anatomy of a person assigned male at birth via a worksheet completed in small groups.