Sexuality+education+for+primary+schools

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The resource I am recommending is the, //‘It’s My Body’// resource. This is something that was created to assist teachers in teaching about puberty and menstruation to females from grades 5-8. This is an online resource however if you make contact with the company they can send out a teaching folder and small care packages for the students in your class. This website offers an area for teachers and a separate area for teachers.

This teaching resource is a great tool in teaching personal development, puberty, human reproduction and sexuality for eleven to fourteen-year-olds. It aims to give students new knowledge but also some concrete hands on materials for the kinaesthetic learners. There are several fact sheets and worksheets that the teacher can do as class activities or that students can look at on their own.

One of the best things about this site is that it has an area for students to access on their own. They can do this at home if they have questions that they don’t feel they are able to ask in front of the whole class. The little bags that are given out are more of a gimmick but that helps get the students involved and most year 5- 8 students which is where this is aimed will appreciate being given something special as well as introducing them with the tools to assist them during puberty.

This resource is specifically for females as a female product company sponsored it. This in itself can be helpful to females as it gives them their own private space to discuss, ask questions and read about the changes they may be experiencing or will experience soon. It allows them to be prepared and gives them facts that are unbiased and easy to access, something not always possible in the classroom or at home.

[|It's my body.]
====This resource focus is at female Primary school children in the middle years. This is the online component of this resource. As a teacher you can get a hard copy of this resource however it is all covered online. This website has a section for both girls and teachers. Within each section is information that is appropriate for its audience. It included fact sheets, activities, worksheets, curriculum information and other references. This resource fits into VELS level 4 however it could also be use with level 5 if the teacher feels it is appropriate. A major positive of this is that students can access this information at anytime and find out information that they are after without needed to ask a teacher. However a major negative of this is that it is only for girls, there is no information about males. (Michelle Blume)====

[|The Hormone Factory] By Gradey McNicol

This website is aimed at children aged 10-12 (VELS end of level 3 and level 4)
====‘The Hormone Factory’ is a visual and interactive website that allows students to explore and learn about sexual and reproductive development. The aim of this website is to support parents and teachers in talking to children about sexual and reproductive development and to help support and answer the questions that children often ask and also for the ones that they don’t ask but often wonder about. The webiste displays diagrams for students to visually see the changes throughout developmental stages in life, allowing for comparisons to be made to real life situations. It is worded appropriately to the age level and is an interactive website.====