Title: It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Author: Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley.  

Publisher and year: 2014 (20 Anv New edition) by Candlewick 

• This book is all about anything kids could want to know about sex, puberty, and relationships. It provides this information in a fun way for students to read and includes drawings. It covers a range of topics that the modern teen will in counter in their life time, include internet safety, LGBTQ identity and relationships, and communication. This book is the best choice to use in the classroom because it up to date and uses correct terms when teaching young people about sexual health. This book also discusses a wide variety of sexual topics for teachers to pull lessons out of for their students. When discussing particular concepts, the book breaks each chapter down into different sexual health topics. This book also starts with the basic sexual health concepts and moves to more advanced ones. 

• The National Health Education Standards for this book are: 
  • NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. 
  • NHES 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. 

• The Healthy Behavior Outcomes for this book are: 
  • HBO 1: Establish and maintain healthy relationships. 
  • HBO 8: Utilize health services to promote sexual health. 

• Integrating this book into a core topic: 
  • I would use this book in a science lesson with my students in the classroom. This book talks about the different sex (male/female) and how each body changes throughout their life. I would have students create posters or work books that would show the body parts of each sex throughout the years. Each picture would have labeled body parts and a summary of what is overall happening. This would be good to integrate in grades 6 through 8. 

• Common Core State Standards- Life Science: 
  • 6-8 LS1E: In classifying organism, scientists consider both internal and external structures and behaviors. 
  • 6-8 LS1F: Lifestyle choices and living environments can damage structures at any level of organization of the human body and can significantly harm the whole organism. 
  • 6-8 LS3C: Reproduction is essential for every species to continue to exist. Some plants and animals reproduce sexually whole other reproduce asexually. Sexual reproduction leads to greater diversity of characteristics because offspring inherit genes from both parents. 
  • 6-8 LS3D: In sexual reproduction the new organism receives half of its genetic information from each parent, resulting in offspring that are similar but not identical to either parent. In asexual reproduction just one parent is involved, and genetic information is passed on nearly unchanged. 

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