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Teenage Growth and Development: 11 14
During the ages of 11 to 14, children begin a sequence of changes that produces significant emotional and physical changes. This article outlines some of those changes and how parents can support these developments.
Curated OER
Kids Health: I'm Growing Up but Am I Normal?
Witnessing changes that take place on your body can sometimes be a confusing experience. Are the changes normal? Are you changing in ways unlike anyone else? This site may help to relieve some worries that an adolescent may be pondering....
Curated OER
Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for My Height?
Finding out your correct weight is difficult because everyone's body type is different. This site addresses that concern and answers questions that surround this issue. Links to related sites are also offered.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Adolescence Terminology Review
Learn the terms associated with adolescence with this ten-question review game.
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Orca Book Publishers: 'In a Flash' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In a Flash by Canadian author Eric Walters is about a boy who plans flash mob events where a large group of teens do something outrageous. The girl he wants to impress thinks these are not smart and he sets out to change her mind. This...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Drama in a Teenage Brain
The lives of teenagers are different from the lives of children. This period of life - adolescence - is a time of both social and biological change. Social lives become more complex during adolescence, and the teenage years are when we...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Puberty and Adolescence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Puberty is the stage of life when a child becomes sexually mature. Puberty lasts from about 12 to 18 years of age in boys and from about 10 to 16 years of age in...
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Cleveland Clinic: Adolescence
Learn how to navigate the adolescent years, including how to foster healthy conversations with your adolescent about peer pressure, body self-image, rape, and alcohol/drug abuse.
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Teenage Growth and Development: 15 17
As a teen approaches adulthood, a sense of autonomy has replaced some of the feelings of insecurity associated with physical development. This article looks at some of these new developments and provides parents with tips on how to...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Body Smartz!
Information and advice about puberty, with answers to questions about what changes on the inside and what changes on the outside.
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Psychology Today: Adolescence
Explore the journey from childhood towards adulthood from how to talk to teens to a look at mental health in high school. Learn about the many issues that accompany this coming of age.
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Orca Book Publishers: Kicked Out Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In "Kicked Out" by Beth Goobie, Dime is unhappy at home and moves in with her quadriplegic brother who helps her learn to love herself. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas.
Quizlet
Quizlet: The Adolescent in Society Chapter 5 Sociology
Practice the concepts of adolescent development by reading flash cards, playing race games, taking practice assessments, and more.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Development From Birth to Adulthood
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers milestones in growth and development from birth to adulthood.
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Stage of Life: How Teens Feel About Real World Issues
Hundreds of students share a personal story in which they faced an obstacle, challenge, issue or problem during the school year and share how they dealt with it when they answered a writing contest prompt.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ages and Stages of Growth: Infancy to Adolescence
A lesson plan that focuses on exploring the milestones of child development from infancy through adolescence.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.74 Puberty and Adolescence
Learn the characteristics of puberty and adolescence in humans.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Cooperative Extension: Publications: Adolescent Growth and Development
During adolescence, teens begin to change physically, cognitively, and psychosocially in preparation for adulthood. Comprehensive article, aimed primarily at an adult readership, describes how adolescents develop.
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Association for Middle Level Education
AMLE serves as a voice for professionals, parents, and others interested in the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents (youth 10-15 years of age). NMSA is the only national educational association exclusively devoted to...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Invention of the Teenager
It's hard to believe that there was not a phase known as adolescence until the 1920s. See how child labor laws and the automobile combined to spawn the teenager.
EL Education
El Education: Adolescence by Adolescents
This "field guide" was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called Adolescent Odyssey and was meant to be a "user's manual" to students' changing bodies. Eighty students did...
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Adoption.com
This website focuses on adoption including information about putting your child up for adoption, choosing a family, reunion of child and birth parent, adoption professional, and much more.
Christian Science Monitor
Cs Monitor: Strategies for Dealing With Rage
This article, published by the Christian Science Monitor (December 21, 1999), explores the sharp differences in strategies for dealing with rage. With all the talk of violence in schools, how should kids handle the rage that may be...
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska: Positive Parental Pressure
This article provides a list of positive things parents can do to help their teens, such as communication, supervision, participation, values, role modeling, and not giving in. Article can be found on page 7 of the PDF document.