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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Self Assess & Family Relationships

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the health habits that are practiced by adolescents and how it can affect them as they continue through life.  In this health habits lesson students complete several activities.
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Organizer
Curated OER

People Grow and Change

For Students 6th - 8th
In this stages of human development chart, students complete a graphic organizer following the stages of human development from infancy to adulthood. The students creates connections of concepts of human development in a visual...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Development After Birth

For Students 7th - 9th
In this reproduction worksheet, students identify the causes which contribute to secondary sex characteristics to develop. Then they determine when the adolescent growth spurt begins and ends for girls and for boys. Students also...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Choices That Adolescents Make

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the different types of information available to adolescents. They analyze the decision making process of adolescents and examine the basis for egocentric thought. They analyze to what degree peer pressure affects...
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Website
Other

National School Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a resource for school safety information, training, and violence prevention.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: School: Test Stress

For Students 3rd - 8th
A peek into the life of a school-aged child provides useful tools on test taking, time management, peer relations, cheating issues, and more. Listen to testimonials, take real-time surveys, and participate in multiple-ending stories on...
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Article
Other

Child Development Institute: Adolescence: The Last Step Before Becoming an Adult

For Students 9th - 10th
Begin to understand the teen age group looking at its place on the growth sequence. Learn that adoelscence, being the last step before becoming an adult brings many changes and challenges.
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Article
Other

Cleveland Clinic: Adolescence

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Website
Other

Stage of Life: How Teens Feel About Real World Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Activity
Other

Guide to Psychology and Its Practice: Adolescent Violence

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are some kids prone to violence? This site by R. Richmond, Ph.D. offers some sound reasons and is very informative. Is it money? Is it media? is it more?
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Website
Other

Adoption.com

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Other

Aacap: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the training and continuing education of a child psychiatrist. Discusses methods of practice and how to find a child psychiatrist.
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Article
Leaf Group

How to Adult: Stages of Development in Adolescents

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the social, cognitive, and physical development of humans during adolescence.