Puberty is a name for the physical and psychological changes that take place when a child becomes an adult.

Hormones are the chemical messengers released by, and transported around, the body.

Reproduction is the process of producing offspring.

Puberty in humans and sexual maturity

Science

Reproduction and inheritance

Life cycles and reproduction

Gametes and fertilisation in sexual reproduction

Human reproductive organs

The human menstrual cycle

Gestation and birth in humans

Healthy pregnancy

Pupils will learn about flower structure, wind and insect pollination, fertilisation, seed and fruit formation and dispersal.

Pupils learned about heredity as the process of organisms passing on genetic material to their offspring during reproduction, and about DNA, genes and chromosomes.

This unit explores human reproduction, covering the structure and function of male and female reproductive systems, the menstrual cycle, gametes, fertilisation, gestation, and birth. It also examines how maternal lifestyle impacts the foetus through the placenta.

Reproduction in humans

Depiction or discussion of nudity (including in historic content).

Depiction or discussion of sex or sexual body parts, including sex education.

Depiction or discussion of sexual content

the changes that boys and girls go through to become adults

the period of the lifecycle between child and adult

Choose the name of the substance that controls puberty.

Match the changes in reproductive system to a boy or a girl.

Choose the physical change that is not associated with puberty.

Choose the two glands that release the sex hormones.

Which organs would you find in the female human reproductive system?

True or false? Humans reproduce by asexual reproduction.

What is produced when a sperm fertilises an egg?

Alex: You can't reproduce until your body has undergone some changes (puberty).

Andeep: Anyone can reproduce, we don't need to change, just get bigger.

Laura: Puberty is something only girls can choose to go through.

Izzy: Puberty is something only women go through because they can have babies.

Puberty in humans and sexual maturity

Lesson outcome

Content guidance