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Science
Quarter 2 - Module 2
Changes That Occur During Puberty

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Science- Grade 5
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2- Module 2: Changes that Occur during Puberty
First Edition, 2020

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Science
Quarter 2 - Module 2
Changes That Occur During Puberty

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About ................................................................................................................... i

What I Need to Know .............................................................................................................................. ii

How to Learn from this Module ...........................................................................................................ii

Icons of this Module ...............................................................................................................................iii

What I Know ........................................................................................................................................... iii

Lesson 1:

Changes that Occur During Puberty .........................................................................

What’s In ....................................................................................................................1

What I Need to Know..................................................................................................1

What Is New..................................................................................................................2

What Is It ......................................................................................................................2-3

What’s More .................................................................................................................4

What I Have Learned..................................................................................................5

What I Can Do ..............................................................................................................6-9

Summary

Assessment: (Post-Test)

Key to Answers .................................................................................................................................. 10

References ........................................................................................................................................... 10
 Lesson

2 Changes that Occur During Puberty

What’s In
Arrange the following jumbled words and write it in the column where they belong.
Make a heading that best suits the group.

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virecx Penis usetur threura iangva

sepiidydim lanimes lecsive rospetat gdanl

Heading: Heading:

What I Need to Know

• In this module, you are expected to describe the changes that occur
during puberty. (S5LT-IIb-2)

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 What’s New

Get photos of your mother and father or older brother and sister when they are
young. Study their photos and answer the following questions.
1. Do they look the same from the time when they were younger?

2. Record the changes that you have observed from their physical appearance
when they are younger, compared to their appearance now. Write your
answer on your activity notebook.

Please paste the Please paste the

picture here or in picture here or in
your activity your activity
notebook notebook

Father/Brother Mother/Sister
_________________________ ____________________
_________________________ ____________________
_________________________ ____________________

What Is It
People grow and experience changes in their body over time. You were just small
when you were born. You grew a little bigger when you were in kindergarten. Now that you
are already in fifth grade, you have grown taller and bigger. You have changed a lot.

You will continue to experience changes in your body as you get older. Why are
these changes happening? What importance of these changes?

Puberty is a stage characterized by rapid developmental changes. Changes start to

happen to young boys whose age ranges from 12 t 14 years old. Girls, on the other hand,
start to experience puberty earlier. They begin to observe changes when they are 10 to 12
years old. These changes are caused by sex hormones from their ovaries and testes. Puberty
occurs during adolescence. Girls start to grow into women and boys into men. Puberty is
the period when the reproductive organs begin to mature. Menstruation in girls and sperm
production in boys starts during this period.

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 Many of the changes that occur in your body during puberty are due t certain
hormones that are released by your pituitary gland. One of these hormones is the growth
hormone. The growth hormone influences an adolescent’s body to suddenly grow very
rapidly within one or two years. This period of rapid growth called growth spurt often
causes an adolescent to feel tired and uncoordinated.

Other pituitary hormones cause the reproductive cause the reproductive organs to
release sex hormones. These newly released pituitary and sex hormones bring about the
physical changes in our body.

Each person has different growth rate. Your growth spurt may begin earlier than
your classmates. Some many begin later than the rest of the class. Period s of growth also
differs among individuals. Some may longer or shorter than others.

Look at some of your classmates on the first day of classes right after summer
break. Observe that they have not just growth taller and bigger. Do you see any changes in
their body or faces? Do you also notice these changes in your body.

Physical changes are also caused by sex hormones. These changes are called
secondary sex characteristics. Which of the secondary sex characteristics do you have now?
Which have not yet developed.

Just like the growth spurt, physical body changes also differ from one person to
another. A person’s body hair may grow abundantly. Others may have less body hair. Some
girls develop larger breast or broader hips. Breast of some girls may be smaller but their hips
are broader. These changes are influenced by the traits each person receives from his/her
parents.

Adulthood begins at about age 20. At this age, all body systems have become fully
mature and full height has been reached.

Boys
• Adam’s apple becomes bigger
• Voice may crack or break at
certain times
• Muscle develop
• Shoulders become broader
• Pubic, underarm, and facial
hair start to appear
• Reproductive organs develop
• Growth spurts
At this age, boys should
consider being circumcised to
keep their external genitals
clean.
Girls
• Breast start to grow bigger
• Hips become rounded and
wider
• Pubic hair starts to appear
• Reproductive organs develop
• Growth spurt
At this age, girls may tart
having menstrual flow

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 What’s More

Compare and contrast the changes that happen to boys and girls during
puberty using a Venn diagram.

Changes in males Changes in females

Changes in
both Sexes

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 What I Have Learned

Read the information below. If you experience the change at your age
now, put check under the appropriate column. Then identify which among
these changes may happen to both male and female.

Changes Being Male Female

Experienced
Broadening of hips
Enlargement of breast
Growth of Adam’s apple
Growth of pubic and
underarm hair
Change in voice quality
Bodies become more
curvy
Weight gain
Muscles grow bigger and
stronger
Developing breast
Mixed up feelings and
mood changes

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 What I can Do

Activity 1

Describe the physical changes.

Changes among the Boys:

Young boy Boy at Puberty

Changes among the Girls:

Young girl Girl at Puberty

Questions:

1. What are the most common physical changes among the boys during puberty?

2. What are the most common physical changes among the girls during puberty?

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Post-Test
A. Multiple choice. Encircle the letter of your answer.

1. Reproductive organs develop rapidly during .

a. adulthood

b. childhood

c. infancy

d. Puberty

2. Which is NOT a change observed in a girl’s body during puberty?

a. broadening of hips.

b. development of breasts

c. development of muscles

d. occurrence of menstruation.

3. Which of the following changes in puberty does not occur in males?

a. enlargement of sex organs

b. growth spurts

c. pubic hair growth

d. hips become round and wide

4. Which of the following changes can be experienced in both male and

female?

a. hips become round and wide

b. development of muscles

c. occurrence of pubic hair

d. development of breasts

5. It is the stage which is characterized by rapid developmental changes.

a. menstruation

b. fertilization

c. adolescence

d. puberty

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B. Modified True or False: Write T if the statement is true. Write F if it is
false. Change the underlined word/s to make the statement true.
_____ 1. Each person has a different growth rate.
_____ 2. Adolescence is a stage characterized by rapid developmental
changes.
______ 3. Boys experience puberty earlier.
_____ 4. Girls’ Adam’s apple becomes bigger during puberty.
_____ 5. Physical changes are also caused by sex hormones.

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 Keys to Correction
What’s In

Male Reproductive System Female Reproductive System

Testis Vagina
Epididymis Cervix
Penis Fallopian tube
Seminal vesicle Ovary
Prostate gland
Urethra
Scrotum
Vas derens

What’s More

Changes in females
Changes in males
Changes in
• Shoulders become
both Sexes
broader • Breasts start to
• Pubic hair develop
• Adam’s apple starts appears
to become more • Hips become
• Growth spurts
developed rounded and
are evident.
wider
• Muscle becomes • Pimples and
bigger and stronger acne may start • Menstruation
to show on face
occurs
• Penis and testes
Penis and
developed
testes
developed

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Post- Test (Answer Key)
A. B.

1. D 1. T
2. C 2. F- Puberty
3. D 3. F - Girls
4. C 4. F - Boys
5. D 5. T

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Teresita Regilioso. Science For Active Learning. 2nd ed. Reprint, Quezon City: SIBS
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Sarte, Evelyn, Eliza Lopez, Mary Jean Dela cruz, Harold Arradaza, and Ednaliza Garcia.
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