A variety of resources you could use:
PowerPoint
Class activity. Different information sheets are placed around the room. The student can rotate and fill in the worksheets.
Multiple Choice Questions
A variety of teaching resources:
PowerPoint on Content Analysis
How content analysis is carried out
Student activity: Carrying out a content analysis from a ‘Lonely Hearts Column’ (a bit of psychology in it).
A Level Psychology Circadian Rhythms (endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle).
PowerPoint
Research study activity
Exam questions exercise
Exam questions PowerPoint exercise
Exam Notes
Model Answers
AQA A Level Psychology: Forensic Psychology: Eysenck’s Personality Theory of Criminal Behaviour
PowerPoint
Exam notes
EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) students can do.
AQA Psychology: Schizophrenia: Interactionist Approach
Powerpoint of the interactionist Perspective
Evaluation sheet activity
Dice game - whole class activity:
Resources
*Dice (enough for each group work), scissors, and worksheets.
**Teacher’s instructions **
a) Give out the Reading Sheet: Interactionist Approach to Schizophrenia to each student. Allocate enough time for students to read this. Students must concentrate carefully on the information as there will be questions set on this.
b) Each group will need to have a set of questions cards. They will need to be cut out. There are 24 questions set. See Sheet: Question Cards.
c) Students need to be put into group and sat at a table with its pack of question cards in the middle, face down. Each person is allocated a number from 1 to 6. The students work in groups of six, however if numbers don’t allow for 6 have smaller groups with void numbers on the die (i.e. in a group of 4, if number 5 and 6 comes up, the die would have to be rolled again.
d) The group decided who goes first. The first player rolls the die and the person with the number shown picks up the first card and responds to the question. The questions are then taken out of the pack or placed back in the pack at the bottom. The second player throws the die. The person with the number shown picks up the card and responds so forth until it takes to get through the entire cards. The question can be set alphabetically or can be shuffled and answered in no particular order.
e) Scoring is optional. If the group feels the answer is correct, the play gets a point. If it is a wrong answer they score no points. The winner is the one who scores the most points
A Level Psychology AQA
Straighforward lesson:
Powerpoint: table giving an overview features of the different types of experiments: lab, quasi, field and natural.
Using the table, two activity sheet to guess what type of experiment it is.
AQA A Level Psychology: Attachment: Caregiver-Infant Interaction
A variety of resources to use:
PowerPoint: Covers ‘reciprocity’ and ‘Interactional Synchrony’
Worksheet for Key Study: Meltzoff and Moore (1977)
Evaluation for Meltzoff and Moore (1977)
Re-cap PowerPoint
Information sheet
AQA A Level Psychology: Research Methods: Aims and Hypothesis.
Variety of activities to choose from:
PowerPoints Explaining Hypothesis and Aims
Worksheets: individual or class activity (x 5)
Exam Notes: Aims, Hypothesis and Variables
‘Snap game’
Summary
An engaging whole class activity, where questions are set from a PowerPoint, which require students to find the correct answer from the information sheet. First student/pair who gets the correct answer, win. This can be as a knowledge builder or a revision. A student led activity.
Resources required:
Miniature whiteboards, board marker pens, wipes, and worksheet A (enough for each pair/student)
Uploading all my resource! Some of them have taken quite a bit of time to create, but I am trying to offer value for money - so I am keeping them as cheap as possible (they are not perfect, but please consider this before giving me a negative review!).
To exchange or not to exachange?
A fun whole class lesson on IV and DV
Instructions for activity:
Cut out each study and the keywords that have the IV and DV. Mix them up and then randomly give each student one study slip and one keyword IV/DV slip (that does not belong to the study).
The students will need to read the study and attempt to identify the IV and DV.
Next, the students will need to get up and mingle with each other and find the correct IV and DV slip of paper for their study (which another student has). Once the student has found the correct IV and DV, they swap the IV and DV slip of paper (they keep their study).
Now that the student has the correct (assuming it is correct) they need to identify which is the IV and which is the DV.
Even though the students exchange the IV and DV slips of paper, one will still have slip that belongs to someone else.
Type of activity
An engaging whole class activity, where questions are set from a PowerPoint, which require students to find the correct answer from the information sheet. First student/pair who gets the correct answer, win. This can be used a learning tool or as revision. This can be as a knowledge builder or a revision. A student led activity.
Resources
Miniature whiteboards, board marker pens, wipes, and worksheet A (enough for each pair/student)
Instructions
Give each person or pair of students (same table) a miniature whiteboard, board marker pen, a wipe, and worksheet A.
Give out the worksheet A for each student/pair and ask the students to read page 1 (study 1) ONLY (no need to go further). While they are reading, make sure you have the PowerPoint questions ready to be shown on a whiteboard display.
For each page (study) there are several questions. Display the first question from the PowerPoint to the students. For each question it will tell you how many correct words they are looking from the information sheet (this is shown in brackets underneath the question). Once they have found the correct number of words, they right this down on the white board.
The first student/pairs to display the answer above their head wins. They get one point. You will need to keep a score.
Go through all the questions set for page 1. At the left-hand bottom corner on the PowerPoint, you will see ‘End of Sheet 1’ on some of the slides. This means there are no more questions to be asked for that page on the information sheet. The students will now need to read the next information page (e.g., page 2). Once they have read this the next questions are given and so on.
A mix of resources:
Very basic powerpoint with an acriivty for students to guess if the scenario is ISI or NSI.
Self-study booklet with an activity for student to identify the type of conformity and explanations for conformity
‘Show me’ activity for Asch’s Research Study - see below:
‘Show me’
Lesson can be used as ‘learning material’
Summary
An engaging whole class activity, where questions are set from a PowerPoint, which require students to find the correct answer from the information. The first student/pair who gets the correct answer, win the point.
Resources
Miniature whiteboards, board marker pens, wipes, and worksheet A (enough for each pair/student)
Instructions
Give each person or pair of students (same table) a miniature whiteboard, board marker pen, a wipe, and worksheet A.
Give out the worksheet A for each student/pair and ask the students to read page 1 (study 1) ONLY (no need to go further). While they are reading, make sure you have the PowerPoint questions ready to be shown on a whiteboard display.
For each page (study) there are several questions. Display the first question from the PowerPoint to the students. For each question it will tell you how many correct words they are looking from the information sheet (this is shown in brackets underneath the question). Once they have found the correct number of words, they right this down on the white board.
The first student/pairs to display the answer above their head wins. They get one point. You will need to keep a score.
Go through all the questions set for page 1. At the left-hand bottom corner on the PowerPoint, you will see ‘End of Questions’ on some of the slides. This means there are no more questions to be asked for that page on the information sheet. The students will now need to read the next information page (e.g., page 2). Once they have read this the next questions are given and so on.
A variety of teaching resources:
PowerPoint on Official Statistics
Web detective activity (you will need to add on the sheet a couple of websites that students can use).
AQA A Level Psychology: Design of Questionnaires
Releasing a lot of my resources. A variety of different activities / worksheet you can use with your students.
A Level Psychology: The biological approach to treating OCD: Drug Therapy
PowerPoint
Evauation activity
How SSRIs work - flow sheet
Snap game (reading, sheet, questions with answers)
Exam notes
Model answers
A Level Psychology: Biopsychology: Infradian and Ultradian Rhythms
PowerPoint
Worksheet
Information sheet on sleep/wake cycle
Exam Notes
Model Answers (complete set)