Factors that Influence the Onset of Puberty
Body Changes
How We Can Help
Hormone Changes
Puberty
100
This is a major factor (based on your parents' rate of development).
What is Heredity?
100
This is what girls have earlier than boys, making most girls taller than boys in middle school.
What is a growth spurt?
100
Because young adolescents can not sit still for an extended period of time.
Why should teachers allow for movement in their classroom activities?
100
Often called the master gland because it controls other endocrine organs
What is the pituitary gland?
100
These are two organs that increase in weight and size at puberty to give the adolescent more stamina.
What are the heart and lungs?
200
This is when you are very anxious and upset.
What is Emotional Stress?
200
This is what makes adolescents clumsy and awkward.
What is the extremities grow faster than the body?
200
Because students are in their awkward stage and are not as coordinated as they were.
Why should teachers expect and be understanding of accidents?
200
This gland controls skeletal and muscular growth.
What is the thyroid gland?
200
These glands secrete oil into the pores, which eventually get infected and cause a pimple.
What are the sebaceous glands?
300
This is how you eat (your eating habits).
What is nutrition?
300
Because the bones grow faster than muscle, so many bones are not protected by sheets of muscle.
What is Why are there so many broken bones in Middle Schoolers?
300
This is what adolescents show when they do not want to take a shower after gym or change clothes in a common area.
What is modesty or a need for privacy?
300
This hormone creates quick surges of energy and strength.
What is adrenaline?
300
Active teens require more of these during puberty than at any other time in their life.
What are calories?
400
This is a group of people related by common heredity.
What is race?
400
3 bones fuse together in adolescents to form this.
What is the coccyx?
400
This is what you should not do if you had the adolescent's sibling in the past.
What is compare them?
400
These create the sexual traits of the maturing male or female.
What are gonads?
400
These are 2 things adolescents need to do to keep them from having body odor?
What are shower, bathe, apply deodorant, wear clean clothes? (any two listed)
500
Going to the doctor regularly, and taking care of oneself adequately
What is adequate health care?
500
Weighing 106 lbs or having 17% body fat
What are some indicators that a girl will have her first period?
500
This will help adolescents cope better with the changes their body will go through.
What is being prepared and informed?
500
These sit on top of the kidneys.
What are adrenal glands?
500
Middle schools need lots of these, since adolescents are so concerned with their appearance.
What are mirrors?
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