Growth Comes In Stages

HEALTH EDUCATION (5) - Growing Up Healthy - Week 8/10

HPE Lesson Plans - Health - KHE, 1HE, 2HE, 3HE, 4HE, 5HE

Safety | Mental, Social & Emotional Health | Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention | Growing Up Healthy

5TH GRADE VIRTUAL HEALTH

L1: Your Digestive System| L2: Food - Nutrients for the Body | L3: MyPlate | L4: Influences on Your Food Choices | L5: Food Labels & Advertising | L6: Changing Families, Changing Roles| L7: Communication in Families | L8: Growth Comes in Stages | L9: Growth, Heredity, and the Endocrine System | L10: Dealing with Adolescence | EXTRA: Choices You Make Affect Growth

Growing UP Healthy

Growth Comes in Stages

See below for the following:

Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)


LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will identify the stages of growth and development.

I will describe some of the changes a person experiences at each stage.

Identify the significance of reaching puberty.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Vocabulary

prenatal - the time before birth

growth spurt - a period of rapid change

infancy - babyhood

childhood - a period of slow and steady growth and development that lasts until you are about ten years old

adolescence - the period of rapid growth and development from about age 10 to about age 19

puberty - the physical changes a person experiences during adolescence

moods - feelings

adulthood - the final growth stage


OPENING (Engage)

Main Idea

You will go through several stages of growth during your lifetime.

Why Learn This?

Learning about the stages of growth will help prepare you for changes ahead.


WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

READ: Growth Comes in Stages


Have you ever sat on a bench at a shopping mall and watched the people passing by? Some people are elderly, and some are young parents with children. Some are teenagers, and some are babies. 

You are watching people at different stages of life.


In the course of life, human beings move through a series of growth stages that start before birth and continue to old age. Each person goes through these stages at his or her own rate. You have already completed some of these important stages of growth.


How has growth changed you?


You experienced your first and most rapid growth stage before you were born. It started when you began growing inside your mother's body as a tiny fertilized cell. During this prenatal (pree-NAY-tuhl) stage--the time before birth-that single cell divided over and over again. During the next nine months, you grew from a tiny cell no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence into a baby, ready to be born.


During the prenatal stage your cells multiplied rapidly. They changed into different types of cells with different purposes. Your major body parts and organs were formed. By birth your heart, lungs, stomach, and other organs were working together in systems, and you could now live outside your mother's body.


Photographs of you during your first two years would show great changes. You were experiencing a growth spurt, or a period of rapid change. From one month to the next, your appearance changed. The things you were able to do also changed. This second stage of growth, called infancy or babyhood, began the day you were born. During infancy you changed from an infant into a toddler, who began to walk and talk.


At first you depended on your parents for survival. You relied on your instinct to swallow milk for the nourishment you needed. During your first year your brain grew quickly. Your brain's growth allowed you to learn about the world around you. Soon you could recognize people. Your muscles and bones grew until you had the strength to sit up, crawl, and walk. You began to form words and were able to communicate in a new way.



HOW YOU'VE GROWN


Prenatal - Nine (9) months before birth until birth

This stage is the most rapid growth period in your life. Inside your mother's body you develop all the body parts, tissues, organs, and systems you will need to support life.


Infancy - Birth until two (2) years

During this growth spurt your body becomes bigger and stronger. You change from an infant to a toddler who can talk, sit up, crawl, and walk.


Childhood - Two (2) years until about ten (10) years

This stage is marked by slow, constant frowth. During this stage you get taller, stronger, and more coordinated. You develop mental, emotional, and social abilities. You also develop better problem-solving and communication skills.




Infancy prepared you to enter the next growth stage, called childhood, a period of slow, steady growth and development that lasts until you are about ten years old. During childhood your body and mind develop even more. You continue to change physically. You get taller, stronger, and more coordinated. You develop the ability to play sports and learn dance steps. You learn to hold a pencil and to write.

You can even learn to type on a computer keyboard. 


Mental, emotional, and social changes also occur. You learn to read. You learn how to talk and write in order to communicate with other people. You discover new skills and interests in a variety of areas. During childhood you also begin to develop your own friendships. You enjoy many different kinds of social activities.


How will you continue to grow?


You already experienced one growth spurt during infancy.

Now your body is getting ready to enter the next and final growth spurt of your life. The period of rapid growth and development from about age ten to about age nineteen is called adolescence (a duhl•EH•suhnts). You enter this period as a child and leave it as a young adult.


The word puberty (PYOO-bertee) is used to name the physical changes a person experiences during adolescence. Puberty can begin in girls as young as eight years of age and in boys as young as ten years of age. However, everyone enters puberty at his or her own time. During puberty your body will go through dramatic changes.


The physical, mental, and emotional changes you will experience during adolescence will help prepare you to become an adult. During adolescence you will learn to assume more responsibilities, and you will earn more privileges. Adolescence is a time of "coming of age," or growing up.


As a teenager you will experience an intellectual and emotional growth spurt. Your ability to think and solve problems will increase. You will begin to have new interests and to solve more difficult problems. Mentally you will become more able to use logic and reasoning. You learn to anticipate the consequences of your actions. These new reasoning abilities will help you make decisions about what is right and wrong. You will learn more about how to make wise choices as you grow up.


Adolescence is also a time of emotional change and development. During this period you will experience many different moods, or feelings. Your moods may change quickly from great excitement and happiness to anger or sadness. Your feelings may also be stronger than they were before. During adolescence your relationships with both boys and girls will become more important. As you mature during this period, you will become more independent.


The final growth stage is adulthood, the period of greatest strength and stamina. You won't experience any more physical growth spurts after puberty. As an adult, however, you will continue to grow emotionally, intellectually, and socially. During this stage you will continue your education, choose a career, and begin to support yourself financially. You will develop close personal relationships, and you may decide to marry. If you and your marriage partner have children, you will have the responsibility of providing a stable family where your children can grow up healthy and happy.


Older adults are in the final stage of life. Their physical abilities decline somewhat and they change physically. However, the same good health habits people practice earlier in life can help make this stage a healthy and active one. These good health habits include regular exercise, a healthful diet, and plenty of rest. Relationships with friends and family and new interests can make this period of life a time of great excitement and growth.



REMEMBER...You will go through several stages of growth during your lifetime. Learning about the stages of growth will help prepare you for changes ahead.


CLOSING (Evaluate)


Standard(s)

HE5.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention

HE5.1b - describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity

HE5.1c - describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being

HE5.1d - describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety

HE5.1e - distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances

HE5.1f - identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others

HE5.1g - identify the changes that occur during puberty

HE5.1h - distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances

HE5.1i - identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence

HE5.2a - evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions

HE5.2b - describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

HE5.2c - explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

HE5.4b - model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts

HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others

HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem

HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision

HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision

HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

HE5.6a - set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

HE5.6b - identify and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices

HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health

HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others

HE5.8a - review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue

HE5.8b - advocate for positive health choices


Essential Question(s)


Big Idea(s)


RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS


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