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Learning activity 9: Growing up
CORE CONCEPT POINTS TO NOTE WHAT YOU NEED
Children experience a range of life changes There is a great deal of power in Teacher’s Information (Resource L)
as they grow. As changes occur physically, language, and being unfamiliar Timeline Cards (Resource M)
with the biological terms for
Scenarios (Resource N)
socially and psychologically, they learn to adapt the body can put children at a
to social and cultural changes around them. disadvantage. To give children this WHAT TO DO
A focus on some of these changes advances vocabulary, we recommended - Changes
that you use everyday situations
- New Life Timeline
the development of self-knowledge and self- to include words for the body and - Child-to-Teenager Timeline
esteem in children. bodily functions naturally and - What’s the Problem?
without undue emphasis. If using
an outside speaker and agencies,
SUGGESTED SUCCESS CRITERIA it is essential that you make them
We will recognise and sequence the aware of, and familiar with the,
stages of development of the human baby your school’s RSE policy.
from conception to birth. Also, refer to Resource L to
familiarise yourself with the
We will identify and name the changes stages of development.
that take place in both males and females
during adolescence.
Changes
Talk with the children about the changes that occur from birth to old age.
(If appropriate, refer back to the activities explored in Activity 8). Talk about and
decide on an appropriate format to show/list the major changes that occur from:
