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Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Offering excellent tried and tested resources for the AQA Psychology Specification for A level. Including revision activities (summary powerpoints and revision cards) and also full interactive lessons. Any questions message me at psychologywithrebecca@gmail.com
Full topic summary for revision for AQA Psychology - Includes wundt, cognitive, biological, behaviourist, social learning theory, psychodynamic and humanism approaches.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes I make them complete the slide independently first, to see what they know before going through the teacher version.
There is a similar resource but with loads of exam questions and advice for answering them throughout on this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12814124
Resources for two-three lessons on the cognitive approach, includes vidoes, worksheets, activities and powerpoint.
Students have a notes sheet that they complete while going through the ppt.
1. Mental processes, including inferences and schema’s. This is packed with fun activities for students to try out to show them their mental processing (including loads of videos).
2. Comparing the mind to computers, cognitive neuroscience and evaluation of the cognitive approach (using the GHG book) and a match task to consolidate PEEL paragraphs.
Also included is some exam questions to use as a test for students and some good student responses and a summary crossword with answers. Plus a sample 16 mark answer essay.
A series of revision activities for a summary lesson or revision lesson at the end of the topic.
1 - Key Term Cards. Great for playing bingo, describing to a partner, pictionary etc
2 - Crossword and answers
3 - brief points test
4 - applied exam questions
5 - blank summary table for students to complete
A full set of resources for revision for research methods
A set of revision cards that can be printed double sided and cut up to make a pack of quick recall question and answer cards. They are great for independent or pair revision of key content.
a revision presentation that takes students back over all key aspect of the RM topic with prompts to complete pages of activities in the activity booklet as you go.
Research methods activity booklet - to be completed to work on all aspects of research methods. Can be done independently or as part of taught sessions using the revision powerpoint.
series of resources for revision
NOTE: All these can be purchased independently from each other as well.
Designed to recap the whole of social influence for AQA Psychology. This includes, obedience, conformity, minority influence and resisting social influence. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards - often more detail is included in the notes of the powerpoint.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for most first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia & Issues and Debates for the second year topics.
Designed for AQA but could be used for other boards. This is a booklet of activities the students work through for revision on research methods. I have included answers for the statistics section of the booklet.
Includes:
Hypotheses
Variables
Ethics
Sampling methods
Research methods
Validity
Reliability
Statistics
Data
Distributions
Features of Science
I have included a PDF version and a word version. The word version doesn’t always keep all its formatting when it is opened on different laptops so I would stick with the pdf version.
This was designed to work with a teacher presentation that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13215262
Designed to recap the whole of first and second year biopsychology for AQA Psychology. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for all first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia and Issues and Debates for the other second year topics.
This includes revision summary ppts for all paper 1 A2 topics.
Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards. Also included a key terms recap revision sheet as a bonus.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Sometimes asking them to complete sections before I go through it.
This is a full lesson resource for case studies and content analysis for AQA Psychology. It covers the description and strengths and weaknesses. It has an activity to carry out a quantitative content analysis on some made up lonely hearts ads. They can do an inter-rater check as well to ensure consistency between two observers.
It includes a ppt and a notes sheet with activities throughout to check learning. The students complete
the notes sheet as we work through the ppt so they have some bits to fill in and activities to complete.
Designed to recap the whole Forensic module for AQA Psychology. It includes measuring crime, explaining crime, offender profiling and dealing with offending behaviour. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
I have uploaded a series of revision activities for Forensic too.
I have also uploaded some revision powerpoints for first year topics too (Psychopathology, memory, attachment)
Designed to recap the whole memory topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shorten notes for MSM, WMM, EWT, Types of LTM, Forgetting.
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class.
Also included an applied activity to get them to apply their knowledge of memory concepts to 6 example scenarios.
I have also uploaded an attachment and Psychopathology one.
Designed to recap the whole psychopathology topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shortened notes for definitions of abnormality, OCD, Depression and Phobias
I give the students a copy of the student version (usually 2 slides to page) to complete and annotate while I go through the teacher version as a class. Or I get them to complete bits before we go through it. Another idea - You could delete more text off the student version and they could complete it all themselves for homework before you go through it.
I have also included a set of exam questions on psychopathology and some blank boxed for short plans for essays on the topics for second years.
I have also uploaded an attachment, Memory and some A2 topics (like Sz and Forensic).
A really interactive session on Eye Witness Testimony with lots of activities and videos throughout the session. Includes having the students become “real” eye witnesses as well.
Designed for year 10/year 11 students as a taster for A level Psychology - could really be used with any exam board but was made with AQA in mind.
All instructions are in the notes sections of the ppt slides.
Adaptable in length - can last anywhere from 30 mins - 60 mins really depending on how many of the activities are done in the session.
AQA Psychology Detailled Scheme of Work
Has links to literacy, Numeracy, EDI and Employability where appropriate.
Video links and activity ideas. Lots of the lessons mentioned on this are on TES as well.
Covers A2 and AS - Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 (topics Gender, Forensic and Schizophrenia).
It is for the dates 2021-2022.
Full lesson resources for a challenging part of research methods - Features of science.
There is a detailed 40 slide powerpoint and activities included.
Activities:
-An essay plan structure to help students plan this as an essay
-A table activity which is good for revision
-A notes sheet - I get students to fill this is out while I go through the powerpoint so they aren’t taking too many notes.
For AQA Psychology. This is a set of 72 revision cards with questions and answers for students studying AQA Social Influence. It includes A01 questions and A03 questions.
They can be used independently or in pairs, alternating answering and asking questions. They should be printed double sided or stuck onto the back of each other.
I also have sets for both first year and second year topics and they can be bought as a bundle for a discount.
For AQA Psychology. Full lesson and homework exam questions for the working model of memory, which takes me 1 hour 30 mins - 2 hours to complete. It covers all the key elements on the ppt and included is a notes sheet which the students complete as we work through the lesson to save on note taking.
Also included are ideas and resources for at least 4 experiments to try with the students to show them elements of the model (e.g word length effect, dual performance task, visual spatial sketchpad and articulatory suppression).
Numerous activities also included:
- A Match Task of Key Terms
- An Evaluation Card Sort/Match Task
- A Gap Fill
- Homework short answer Questions
- An Essay Plan for an Applied Essay
This is a full lesson for OCD treatments. Designed for the AQA Psychology Psychopathology module. It should take 1.5-2 hours. It covers SSRI’s and BZ’s and makes use of the Cat book for evaluating.
It includes:
Powerpoint for teaching
Assessment questions and mark schemes on OCD and definitions of Abnormality
Gap Fill for whole of OCD
Synaptic Transmission recap for understanding how drugs work.
This is a full lesson for OCD Explanations (including genetic and neural explanations). It is designed to take 1.5-2 hours.
It includes:
Powerpoint for teaching
Notes sheet - for students to complete while working through the powerpoint
Match task for evaluation
Essay Plan Blank for students
Sample Essay to show students
This includes:
Revision powerpoint (teacher and student version)
48 revision cards
Exam Questions
Crossword
Summary sheets
Domino Cards
There is a similar set of resources for the Forensic Topic.