Positive Identity, Puberty and Change - Year 5

What's included

Presentations: Lessons 1–10

Display: Key ideas

Display: How we explain our evidence

Activity: Case and source cards

Game: Choose, explain and check

Record 1: Identity influences

Record 2: Positive self-identity

Record 3: Puberty fact check

Record 4: Resources for transitions

Record 5: Roles and stereotypes

Record 6: Challenge a limiting message

Record 7: Portfolio learning record

Record 8: A supported next step

Record 9 (Optional): Familiar support choices

Record 10 (Optional): A transition guide

Quiz: Positive Identity, Puberty and Change

Assessment: Positive Identity, Puberty and Change

Rubric: Positive Identity, Puberty and Change

Plan a connected sequence about identity, change and respectful support. Students work with fictional characters to connect influences, check health claims, explain the limits of a general resource and propose fair opportunities. The unit develops reasoning through worked examples, discussion, a case-based game, learning records and a portfolio conference.

What's included

• 47-page Unit Plan PDF: contents page, 16 teacher guidance and lesson pages, 20 original resource pages and 10 matched answer pages.
• Ten separate editable lesson PowerPoints, with 114 slides in total. Lesson 3 has 15 slides; every other lesson has 11 slides.
• Editable 24-slide quiz PowerPoint with 10 questions and explicit answer slides.
• Complete 185-page Preview PDF containing the unit plan, all ten lesson presentations and quiz.
• Separate Table of Contents JPEG.

The PDF resources include two displays, eight case/source cards across two pages, game instructions and eight challenge cards across two pages, a game board, ten learning records, two assessment pages and a rubric.

Learning focus

Explain interacting identity influences.

Evaluate credible, suitable information and its limits.

Analyse gender-role assumptions and justify a fair alternative.

Adapt a supported next step when conditions change.

Classroom use

Teach eight core lessons of approximately 50 minutes. Core teaching and assessment finish within Lessons 1–8; Lessons 9–10 offer useful optional practice. Each lesson has its own presentation, clear teaching sequence, resources, response choices and evidence to collect.

Students explain identity influences, evaluate health information and support, and challenge gender-role assumptions using fictional cases. Puberty teaching uses factual language about varied development, body and emotional changes, menstruation, involuntary erections and wet dreams, everyday care and private help-seeking. Healthdirect Australia and The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne are credited where their information supports teaching.

No personal body, family or health disclosure is required. Students can respond through speech, drawing, writing, dictation, supported choices or a communication board/device. Teachers can use private conferences while keeping the same learning expectation.

Assessment combines a fictional portfolio and conference, source evaluation, a justified fair-role alternative and a safe general help request. The quiz provides an additional knowledge check. Matched learning-record answers give sample reasoning; valid alternatives are accepted.

Teacher benefits

Timed teaching sequence and complete teacher guidance.

Separate editable presentation for each planned lesson.

Flexible response choices and private participation.

Core assessment completed before optional extension lessons.

Digital resource

PDF, editable PPTX and JPEG files. A PDF reader and PowerPoint-compatible software are required. This is a digital download; no physical product is supplied. Single-teacher classroom use. Do not redistribute, resell or share the files publicly.