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Bone growth tends to out grow muscle growth.

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Young Adolescents are looking for medically accurate answers about their growth and development. If they aren't satisfied with the answer, they often are left feeling concerned and maybe scared. (NMSA, 2010, pg. 56)

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"A defining characteristic of physical development of young adolescents is rapid and uneven skeletal change" (Page 17)
ex: Bones in legs might grow faster than the rest of the bones might not be growing at all.

How it applies to classroom: We could explain the types of changes in the body, and the impact that they might have on our students. We could do activities to explain how these work.
Ex: Student: "I don't know why my feet are so big, but I am so short."
Teacher: "Each part of development is different for everyone. That is what makes everyone special in our classroom community."

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many young adolescents gain 40 to 50 lbs before puberty is over.

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Although brain development is important during this time, not all new brain cells survive. Those that aren't being used often go through a process called "pruning" and are shrunk and eventually die off. This is seen as more of a positive thing though, rather than negative. (Page 26)

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On page 17 it talks about how young adolescents have three tailbones fusing which is quite uncomfortable. On this page a student says that, "Sometimes when the teachers are not looking, I need to stand." This quote was fascinating because it shows how much middle school students are changing and how they might have growing pains and need to move around, even though they feel like they shouldn't. This picture is supposed to represent a child that might have grown too much to sit comfortably at a desk (even though the photo is of an adult).

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"The first physical change in young adolescents is a growth spurt of the skeletal and muscular systems that begins at about age ten for girls and twelve for boys and lasts for two to three years." (pg. 16)

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“Students require a wide variety of nutrients because of rapid growth of skeletal system and other physical change.” (Page 21)  BJHS has 58.2% low income students. Luckily we have Promise Council who brings in snack for students and gives to teachers to hand out. Once we had plums and students kept coming wanting them.  I never would have wanted a plum in Junior High. They actually choose healthy snacks if given a choice.

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"Males who don't begin to mature physically by age fifteen are more likely to suffer negative effects than on-time or early -maturing males. The first challenge is what Rice and Dolan (2005) refer to as 'locker-room syndrome'" (Brown and Knowles 2014, pp. 20-21).

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"Early developing females have a higher risk of developing mental illnesses" (Page 19).

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" Evidence of less adolescent sleep is indicated in a study of 600 thirteen-to eighteen-year olds in which 54 percent revealed receiving less than six to eight hours of sleep a night during school evenings (Chen, Wang, and Jeng 2006) " pg 46

How It applies to the classroom: its hard teaching sleepy children because they are inattentive. Its not really anything you can do to help.

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"Most schools prohibit any eating in the halls or classrooms, meaning that students are going through their busy days without eating as long as five hours"(Brown and Knowles, 22). This picture represents that we should have a designated area where kids are allowed to eat a snack that they bring from home, this would be very helpful for them and their growing bodies to have a little break and eat something healthy..