Teen Development
Teen Intro Slideshow
This slideshow introduces some key concepts about development during the teen stages. The notes are meant to go along with the slideshow
Adolescent meme template using google drawing
Adolescent Meme
Students make a meme using adolescent development concepts
Teen Mental Health Slideshow
This slideshow is meant to start a discussion on some of the biggest challenges in mental health for teens. It also links to a slideshow that I use as a pear deck, or a slideshow that has interactive questions.
The Teen Brain and Status Anxiety
The way teens see the world is due to a changing brain. A hallmark of the teen years is to start caring more about what your peers think. I talk about what is going on and some helpful tips to help people who work with teens.
The Teen Brain and Emotions
Due to the later development of the prefrontal cortex in the brain emotions often take the reins of the teen brain.
Teen Brain- Imaginary Audience
Because of changes in the teen brain teens are often performing for each other. Sometimes they are performing when there is no one to watch either
Identity Development and Stereotypes
This slideshow is about how stereotypes have a rather large effect on our identity development
Teen Journey Map Assignment
Students follow the directions on the sheet
I use a heavily edited version of the Breakfast club to discuss many aspects of teen development- It's not a very high quality as a lot of it was taken from tv several years ago- you can check it out however
Heavily Edited Breakfast Club
Not very high quality due to it being recorded from TV but this is what I use
Breakfast Club Questions
Questions to answer while watching. We pause the movie to go over a lot of these as a class
Breakfast Club Group analysis
Students form groups and fill out the chart after the movie is over