CHANGES in PUBERTY PROJECT

OBJECTIVES

Students ( team of 2, male-female) will do the following:

·  Learn about the changes of puberty for boys and girls

·  Make a presentation about significant changes that take place during puberty

PROCEDURE

1. Find out the following information about puberty:

·  Approximately when it takes place

·  What physical changes occur in females

·  What physical changes occur in males

·  Why these changes occur

·  What a growth spurt is

·  What is involved in a menstrual cycle

·  What and why emotional changes occur during puberty

·  What hormones are responsible for these changes

You can use the following Web sites:

What Is Puberty?

http://www.coolnurse.com/puberty.htm
Your Health: Puberty - Male

http://www.crha-health.ab.ca/hlthconn/items/growmal.htm
Your Health: Puberty - Female

http://www.crha-health.ab.ca/hlthconn/items/growfem.htm
Child Health: Male Puberty

http://www.parents-talk.com/expertsadvice/ea_ch_0003.html
Explaining Menstruation

http://www.parents-talk.com/expertsadvice/ea_ch_0002.html

2. In your report include answers to the following questions:

·  What it feels like when a girl gets her period for the first time?

·  How a boy feels when he his voice cracks when he’s delivering a talk at school?

·  How it feels to have a bad facial blemish right before going to a big social event?

·  What it feels like as awareness of the opposite sex increases?

·  How a girl feels when she can’t go to a swim party because she has her period?

·  What do you think is the single hardest thing about going through puberty? What is the greatest benefit of reaching physical adulthood?

·  What is the relationship between hormones and changes taking place in your body?

·  Describe one fact that you learned about the experience of puberty in the opposite sex. Do you have a greater appreciation now of what members of the opposite sex are experiencing?

What to hand in (via email):

1.  Word document (Font: Normal, Arial. Size: 12):

a.  The report

b.  A list of any additional websites that you found useful (For each Web site you should note the name, URL, and a list of interesting facts about it)

c.  A list of the medical words with their definitions

d.  A list of the academic words with their definitions

2.  PowerPoint presentation

Format of your Word Document:

Last name/first name/student number/email: 1. ______

2. ______

Collaborative Report: (essay, max 4000 words)

Websites consulted (list of additional websites)

List of Medical words (max 20)

Format:

TERM / Example in context / Word class information / Dictionary definition / Greek translation
catheter / … / … / … / …
hemodialysis / …the victim can be saved by regular use of a renal hemodialysis machine. / noun / A treatment used to cleanse the blood of patients whose kidneys are defective / αιμοκάθαρση
… / … / … / … / …

List of Academic words (max 10)

Format:

TERM / Example in context / Word class information / Dictionary definition / Greek translation
approach / …. / … / … / …
formula / …Coca-Cola’s patented formula. / noun / A list of the substances used to make a medicine / συνταγή,
τύπος
… / … / …. / … / …

EXTENSION

You will get extra credit for submitting articles you have found on the Internet related to your topic. These should be submitted along with their sources, a five-to-eight-sentence summary on the article, and a three-to-five-sentence personal reflection on why you chose the article you did and further presented to the class. A possible starting point is the Discovery Health Web site <http://health.discove

ry.com/> or the NBC portal at <http://www.msnbc.com/news/HEALTH_Fro

nt.asp?0dm=B---H&ta=y>. These sites offer daily highlights related to health issues.

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