Our most popular puberty and personal hygiene resources
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All about us: living and growing
Format: DVD and workbooks Publisher: Channel 4 Audience: Ages 5-11 Details: Educational resource to promote sex and relationship education as a developmental process, beginning in the early years at the appropriate level and progressing through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. Book this resource |
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Growing up: a guide to puberty
Format: DVD Publisher: Bounty Audience: Ages 5-11 Duration: 13 mins Details: Using animated drawings this video follows the stages of growth, shows how boys and girls develop, how the physical characteristics change with the effect of sex hormones. Topics covered include: puberty, changing emotions, social expectations, wet dreams, menstruation, management of periods and hygiene. Outlines the importance of exercise, nutrition and hygiene in fitness and health. Includes teachers' notes. Book this resource |
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Rollercoaster
Format: Worksheets and games Publisher: Rotherham Healthy Schools Audience: Ages 5-11 Details: A pack exploring the 'Ups and Downs of Puberty' in an interesting and fun way, in addition to enabling facilitators to explore some of the emotional aspects and changes that may accompany puberty. Book this resource |
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Everything you ever wanted to ask about periods
Format: Book Publisher: Piccadiily Press, 2001 Details: A guide based on real questions that thousands of girls have already asked Book this resource |
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Everything you ever wanted to ask about willies and other boys bits
Format: Book Publisher: Piccadiily Press, 2002 Details: Questions and queries that other boys have raised; a clear practical guide Book this resource |
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Title: Hair in funny places
Format: Book Publisher: Stanley Paul Details: This book takes a sideways glance at what happens to the body when it is hit by puberty. |
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Title: Breast m8s- know and love your breasts
Description: Workbook produced by breast cancer care designed to help teachers, school nurses and other healthcare professionals to run an information session on breast health and bras for girls aged 11-16. Includes: Workbook, 5 x A3 posters (about breast cancer; breast m8s know and lover your breasts; breast development; what looks normal?; does it fit? and small folded information leaflets. |
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Personal hygiene and puberty
Format: CD-ROM with downloadable worksheets and games Audience: Ages 7-11/KS 2 Details: A resource pack on personal hygiene and puberty designed for school nurses and others working with children. Book this resource |
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Title: Some of your bits ain't nice
Format: Video Description: This short educational video, using snappy songs and drama, featuring character puppets Dirty Beastie and Soap Sud Sally, has been created to convey simple basic hygiene messages for children and is most suitable for 4-7 year olds. The video has been designed to teach children to help prevent the spread of threadworms which are easily transmitted within the class room or any family home. Key messages include the importance of washing and drying hands thoroughly before meals, after visiting the toilet or handling pets, as well as denouncing finger sucking or eating food dropped on the floor. |
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Brush up on hygiene
Format: DVD Duration: 20 mins Date: 2007 Audience: Ages 5-14 Details: Making cleanliness and good hygiene fun, zany host Dr. Tidy teaches young viewers that keeping their bodies clean is an important part of staying healthy and feeling good about themselves. Covers proper hand washing, oral hygiene, what germs are, how germs spread, why skin and hair regimens are needed, and what causes body odor. Includes teacher's resource book and student handouts. Book this resource |
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Personal hygiene: what’s that got to do with me?
Format: Book Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Date: 2005 Audience: Ages 7+ Details: This book is a curriculum developed for students with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, learning and developmental disabilities, designed to help them understand how others perceive their appearance and the social implications of neglecting personal hygiene. Book this resource |
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Hand washing machine
Format: Interactive Audience: All ages Details: Teaches the importance of good hand washing. GlitterBug Potion fluoresces brightly under UV illumination. Any potion not washed off by the use of warm water, soap and rubbing will continue to show up as fluorescing areas on the hand. Book this resource |
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Our wonderful body- germs and what they do
Format: DVD Details: When space explorer Zork becomes curious about why Earth people get sick, he learns it’s because of germs — very, very tiny creatures that can get inside the human body. “But then, why aren’t Earth people sick all the time?” he wonders. His question is answered when he sees how the body is able to keep most germs out and how it can destroy germs that do get in. Sometimes, though, a few germs stay alive long enough to start multiplying very rapidly. That causes an infection, which makes people sick. |
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Giant microbes: personal hygiene
Format: Model Publisher: Giant Microbes Inc Audience: Ages 5+ Details: Kit containing 4 'giant microbes' - stuffed toys designed to look like microbes but one million times actual size. Kit contains: common cold model (Rhinovirus); sore throat microbe (Streptococcus pyogenes); flu (Orthomyxoviridus) and stomach ache (Shigella dysenteriae). Each model comes with card of facts about the microbe and its effects. Designed to be used as a teaching aid in personal hygiene sessions for children and young people . Book this resource |
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Caring for myself - a social skills storybook
Format: Book Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Date: 2007 Audience: Ages 3+ Details: For a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), even everyday activities like brushing your teeth, washing your hands or visiting the doctor can cause anxiety and stress because of the sensory, cognitive and communication impairments they experience. 'Caring for Myself' is an entertaining and educational social skills storybook that will help children with ASDs to understand importance of taking care of their bodies. Book this resource |
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Bug Busting Kit- teaching/demonstration purpose only
Format: DVD and demonstrative items Audience: 3-11 Details: DVD illustrating how to use the Bug Busting wet combing method to erradicate head lice. Kit also includes demonstration kit and explanatory leaflets. |