GROWING & CHANGINGCH. 1

When Will I feel like an adult?

• I can explain how physical, intellectual, emotional, and social changes help you achieve certain developmental tasks

• I can identify ways to show responsibility at home and at school

• I can explain how independence is achieved

Objectives

• Adolescence: stage between childhood & adulthood

• Developmental Tasks: certain skills & behavior patterns that normally develop

• Growth Spurts: rapid periods of growth• Hormones: changes are caused by chemicals in

your body known as hormones• Emotions: feelings about people & events in your

life

Words to Know

• Learn to accept changes in your body• Select & prepare for a career• Achieve emotional independence• Learn to get along with peers• Acquire a set of standards that guide your behavior• Learn what behavior will be expected in adult roles• Accept responsibility• Become independent of adults

Developmental Tasks of Teens

• Physical changes: occurs as your body grows & matures

• Intellectual changes: takes place when you learn about the world around you

• Emotional changes: affect how you feel about situations and how you express those feelings

• Social changes: occurs as you meet more people & learn how to get along with

• them

Four major types of changes

• Youth Gang Membership Grows at alarming rate!!!

Why do some teens join gangs?

How are gangs destructive to the individual and to the community?

What are some positive alternatives to gangs?

In the Headlines

• Adolescence usually lasts from age 11 to 17• Girls stop growing at around 15, guys stop

around 17

Physical Changes

• The ability to reason & solve problems develops between 13 & 15

• 80% of adult intellect has been developed at age 8!!

Intellectual Changes

• Peers: people the same age as you• Roles: pattern of expected behavior• Responsibilities: duties or jobs you must carry

through• Independence: those who are responsible for

their own actions

Words to know

• Workout (running, biking, skating, walking)• Write it down• Talk your problems out

How to handle Negative Emotions

• Makes you feel good• Fun being with friends & family• Love• Expressing your emotions with someone else

• Your feelings may become more intense than they’ve ever been before

• Talking in front of the class & worrying about your appearance

• Negative Emotions: anger, jealousy, envy, fear• Positive Emotions: Love, affection, joyful,

excited

Emotional Changes

• Decide what is important to you• Focus on your values, ideas, & morals before

you belong to a group• During Adolescence, interest in members of

the opposite sex takes on a new meaning

Social Changes

• Gather pictures from magazines or even photos of yourself

• Find at least 5 vocabulary words to put on your collage

• Make a collage of things all about you!• Favorites: color, season, music, food, number, etc.• Dislikes, sports teams, things unique to you• Present to the class!!!

Express You Creativity!!