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Systems, Protection and Health
Review: What are the systems we learned about?
Systems, Protection and Health
The Organ Systems:
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What happens when an organ or a system is not working properly?
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What happens when an organ or a system is not working properly?
This causes disease. If an organ has a disease, has failed, or is missing, the body systems it belongs to may not work properly.
Do you think this will affect the other body systems?
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Cerebral Palsy
Muscular Dystrophy
Heart Attack
Cystics Fibrosis
Systems, Protection and Health
Cerebral Palsy
Muscular Dystrophy
Heart Attack
Cystics Fibrosis
Systems, Protection and Health
Systems, Protection and Health
By the age of two, you were about half as tall as you will be as an adult.
Then during childhood your growth rate slowed down.
Now it will speed up as your body changes in many ways. This time of fast growth and change is called puberty.
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Do you think you grow and change at the same rate throughout your life?
Are there times when you might grow faster or slower, or more changes will happen?
Systems, Protection and Health
Puberty is the transition from youth to adulthood.
What happens when you go through puberty?
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Puberty is the transition from youth to adulthood.
What happens when you go through puberty?
During puberty, your pituitary gland (peashaped organ at the bottom of your brain) releases hormones that affect different parts of your body.
The hormones trigger changes in the growth, size, and shape of your body.
Boys:
grow taller
develop broader shoulders
increased muscle
deeper voice
hair growth
Adam's Apple
acne
Girls:
grow taller
rounder bodies
hips
hair growth
acne
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Do you only go through physical changes during puberty? (Is your body the only thing that will change?)
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Do you only go through physical changes during puberty? (Is your body the only thing that will change?)
You also go through many emotional changes! Your body is adjusting to the different levels of hormones and this will cause emotional changes as well as physical changes.
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What protects your body?
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What decisions can you make to protect your body?
Systems, Protection and Health
What protects your body?
1. Skin
2. Your body's defences
3. Your immune system
4. Your decisions!
