GCSE psychology- development, Lesson 4- Piaget's theory of cognitive development

This is lesson 4 of a series of lessons covering the development topic. This lesson focuses on Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and the development of intelligence. This lesson goes alongside the development workbook which is available in my shop. This powerpoint has a total of 11 slides and is designed to fill a 90 minute lesson.

Included:

• a starter activity on the psychological problems topic, this acts as a retrieval practice task.
• a slide outlining the key words being used in the lesson with their definitions.
• Piaget’s explanation of understanding the world, referring to key concepts such as ‘adaptation’.
• an explanation of schemas, including two video clips showing how schemas are formed.
• student task- a fill in the blanks activity. This outlines piaget’s theory.
• student task- this task requires page 8 of the edexcel psychology gcse textbook. The task involves students writing, explaining and drawing ilustrations to help them understand key concepts used in Piaget’s theory. (The table is included in the booklet, a screen shot is on the power point)
• key question - student assessment. The question is included on the powerpoint, along with the answer, students should self mark this afterwards.
• strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s theory. Students are giving the different explanations and they have to decide whether they are strengths or weaknesses. They should do this using colour coding. All instructions are on the power point. Extension question included.
• plenary- students should try to work out the key terms on the powerpoint.