PUBERTY I-UNDERSTANDING CHANGES – Grades 4-5
Puberty I: Understanding Changes
Puberty I: Understanding Changes is an engaging, SEL-integrated program that uses storytelling and age-appropriate scenarios to help students navigate the physical and emotional changes of puberty. Through relatable examples, students are introduced to the biological changes that occur during adolescence, including a foundational study of reproductive anatomy.
As the first class in our comprehensive Sex Education continuum, this program explores both common physical changes across genders—such as breast development, increased sweat and oil production, acne, voice changes, and body hair growth—and anatomy-specific developments like the menstrual cycle, nocturnal emissions, and spontaneous erections.
Delivered in a blended learning format, Puberty I includes interactive online pre- and post-program activities, offering students multiple opportunities to engage with and reinforce key concepts.
This class may be taught in gender specific groupings or a mixed gender setting. Please note that mixed gender classes will need an additional 30 minutes, 120 minutes in total.
Program Goals:
Increase their knowledge of human anatomy
Identify changes that are common during puberty and ways to manage these changes
Increase their comfort in discussing and caring for their changing bodies
Program Fee:
Standards Alignment:
- ISBE Health Standards
- ISBE Social Emotional Learning Standards
- National Sexuality Education Standards
*Meets IL school code section 105 ILCS 110/3