# Slides 3.3: Adolescence: What Is Changing and Why It Is Normal Slide outline for Lesson 3.3. Twelve slides. Nothing on these slides is about puberty or reproductive health; those are health class. Every "you" is general. Slide 9 carries the "tell an adult" list; Sal fills in the counselor's name and room. ## Slide 1: Adolescence: What Is Changing and Why It Is Normal - Lesson 3.3: Growing Across the Lifespan - Unit 3: Growing Up, Getting Along - Today: four things that change, a myth sort, and a rule about "normal" - Do now: true or false, private, nobody shares: (1) Teenagers need less sleep than younger kids. (2) Your brain is finished growing by 12. (3) Mood swings mean something is wrong with you Notes: All three are false. Say so after they write, not before. ## Slide 2: A brain at 13 - The bottom floors work - The top floor is still being built - That floor plans ahead and hits the brakes - This is not an insult. It is a schedule Image: a construction site described in words: a building with the lower floors finished and lit, the top two floors open steel framing with a crane. Notes: Come back to this image every time a student asks "why do I..." ## Slide 3: Body (a ruler) - Growth spurts: arms and legs first, so clumsy for a while - Hungrier - The sleep clock shifts later: the body wants to fall asleep later and wake later - School does not move, so sleep gets squeezed - Sleep window from Lesson 2.6: 8 to 10 hours for ages 13 to 18; 9 to 12 for ages 6 to 12 [Sal: confirm] Notes: Puberty questions go to health. Say the coordination line once, plainly, and move on. ## Slide 4: Brain (a brain) - The prefrontal cortex, the planning and braking part, keeps building into the mid 20s - The part that feels reward and excitement is running at full speed now - So risks feel bigger and better than they will later - Friends nearby make that stronger Image: a plain side view of a brain with the front shaded and labeled "still building." Notes: "The brakes are still being installed, which is why you practice using them now, not why you skip them." Say it here; a student will test it later. ## Slide 5: Feelings (a face) - Bigger - Faster - They swing - That is chemistry, not character Notes: One minute. Do not ask anyone how they feel. ## Slide 6: Independence (a house key) - Wanting to decide for yourself - Wanting privacy - Still needing family - Both at once. That is normal Notes: Students fill the four-part chart, handout Part 1, one line per part. ## Slide 7: Myth or fact - Twelve strips. Pairs. Sort into MYTH and FACT - For each myth, one sentence: "This is a myth because ___" - 10 minutes - Then: stand and sort. I call a strip, you stand under the sign Image: two wall signs, MYTH and FACT, drawn as arrows. Notes: Grade 6 and IEP/504 sort eight strips. A student who does not want to stand holds up an M or F card at the seat. ## Slide 8: The key - Myths: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 - Facts: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 - Fix your sorts Notes: If more than a third stood wrong on the sleep strip (1) or the brain strip (11), reteach that slide for one minute right now. ## Slide 9: "Normal" is a range - Two people, both 13: one a head taller, one not yet. Both normal - One asleep at 9, one at midnight. Both normal - One cries at a movie, one does not. Both normal - Same age is not the same stage. Late is not wrong - Not a phase and needs an adult: sadness that does not lift for weeks; not sleeping for days; hurting yourself or someone else; a friend who says any of those - Tell: the counselor [Sal: name, room], the nurse, any teacher, the office, an adult at home Notes: Students copy the rule and the list onto Part 2. This list is the one thing nobody leaves without. ## Slide 10: The case - A 13-year-old wants to go to a friend's house on a school night - The parent says no. The door slams. An hour later both feel bad - What is the 13-year-old's brain doing? What is the parent doing? - Write one response that fits the brain at this age, and one reason - Response bank: ask again when calm; offer a plan; name the feeling; write it instead of saying it Notes: Pairs compare. Two pairs share by choice. Land it: waiting for calm is the brake pedal. ## Slide 11: Exit card - 3 things that change in adolescence, one per part - 2 myths you can now correct - 1 question for the health teacher (optional; no name goes with it) Notes: The "1" lines go to the health teacher with no names. Two students read a "2" aloud. ## Slide 12: Tomorrow - Heredity, environment, and who you are becoming - Then a review game and the Lifespan Stages Quiz (day 2) - Bring your handouts from 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 Notes: Two of the myth strips are on the quiz.