{"id":709,"date":"2023-09-27T06:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=709"},"modified":"2023-09-27T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:35:33","slug":"week-8-jss-2-first-term-basic-science-lesson-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-8-jss-2-first-term-basic-science-lesson-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 &#8211; Jss 2 First Term Basic Science Lesson Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK  8<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 2<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>PUBERTY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong>Puberty is the transitional biological stage between childhood and adulthood.<br \/>\nIt is the stage when the body matures.Puberty involves changes in primary seual characteristics.<br \/>\nIt starts when the pituitary gland at the base of the brain produces hormones.Hormones are chemical substances,which control the body&#8217;s development and growth.At pub<br \/>\nRty,these hormones are secreted to the reproductive organs,thatis,the testes and the ovariesin females and males respectively.The reproductive organs thereafter produce  sex hormones,which causes the changes in the adolescent&#8217;s body.<br \/>\nAdolescence begins  withpuberty.Most girls  reach puberty between the ages of 9-13 while boys reach puberty between the age of 12-14.However , children grow at different rates so some may mature laters than others.<br \/>\nDIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES AT PUBERTY<br \/>\n1.Boys:there is a rapid increase in Height.Boys later caught up with Girlsin height and may overcome them.<br \/>\nGirls:there is a rapid increase in Height.Girls tend to be taller thanboys of the same age.<br \/>\n2 .Boys:voice becomes deeper<br \/>\nGirls:Breast develops<br \/>\n3. Boys :semens discharges during sleep.<br \/>\nGirls:Menstruation begins<br \/>\n4.Boys: Hairs are noticed under the harmpits and on the external parts of the Reproductive organs.<br \/>\nGirls:Hairs are noticed under the armpits and on the external parts of the Reproductive organs.<br \/>\n5.Boys:The shoulder become broader<br \/>\nGirls:the hip become broader<br \/>\n6.Boys:pimples  sometimes appear on the face but  they usually disappear after a time.<br \/>\nGirls: pimples  sometimes appear on the face but  they usually disappear after a time.<br \/>\n<strong>EVALUATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>Describe the changes that takes place in boys and girls during puberty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK 8 HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 2 PUBERTY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Puberty is the transitional biological stage between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-jss-2-basic-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}