AQA Psychology A level (new 2015 Specification) Shop
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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 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.
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.
This is a full lesson - suitable for 1.5-2hrs worth of teaching time on Correlations for AQA Psychology Research Methods.
It includes:
Correlation definitions
Differences between correlations and experiments
Coefficients
Strengths and weaknesses
The activities included are:
A sheet showing the difference between correlations and experiments
Exam questions (on correlations and experimental designs - previous lesson before this recap)
Sheet showing the issue of cause and effect
A correlation example for them to carry out on celebrity attractiveness
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.
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.
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/revision-for-research-methods-teacher-presentation-aqa-psychology-could-be-used-for-other-boards-11623128
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 lesson is about learning how to compare the approaches for the AQA Specification A2 topic.
It has a few activities comparing the approaches and goes through how to write comparison paragraphs instead of standard strengths and weaknesses.
It has a powerpoint, applied activities, notes sheet for students to use and several sample essays.
Designed to recap the whole issues and debates module for AQA Psychology 2015 spec.
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. Sometimes asking them to complete it before I go through it.
I have uploaded a similar thing for some first year topics and Gender, Forensic and Schizophrenia in second year topics.
Revision carousel activity independent lesson on Biopsychology. I print out the instructions for each station and then print the worksheets. I then instruct the students to work their around the room from station to station completing the activities. They should start with the area they are least confident with.
Activities are mostly summary tables but also includes playdough and making a localisation brain hat (link is here and on ppt for the brain resources - http://ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisphere-hat/)
Also available separately is a summary ppt covering the whole biopsychology module.
Includes a couple of resources I use on open evenings for promoting Psychology.
Serial Killer or Psychologist - I made these into cards with a photo on the front and descroption of who the person is on the back them laminated them. The idea is that the students have to sort the cards into two piles based on appearance alone. I then discuss things like lombroso theory, nature nuture of offending, biological causes (because if there are similarities in faces of criminals it could mean similarities in DNA etc), and offender profiling with them.
True or false statements - I put these in a jar and they pull out one and we discuss it.
A display poster of the topics we cover
Interesting Conditions - just some more unusual conditions that can be discussed
A mirror task shapes - if you buy a couple of small mirrors (the small mirror tiles work well from Ikea) then the students have to do the mirror task done by HM. Draw a line in the small 1cm gap between the lines of the shapes by only looking in the mirror. I do this by blocking their vision to their hand using another sheet of paper (or can use a card board box cut out.
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.
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.
A full lesson (1 hr 30-2 hrs) on Types of Observations for AQA Psychology. This includes:
-A powerpoint which outlines types of observations, evaluation of observations, sampling procedures, behavioural categories and inter-rater reliability.
-A summary table
-Activities on observations
-Exam Questions on Observations
-Ideas for designing their own observation
This is a full lesson including powerpoint, booklet for note taking and worksheet activities for A2 Biological Rhythms in the Biopsychology part of the course. It includes Circadian, Infradian and Ultradian Rhythms as well as Endogenous Pacemakers and Exogenous Zeitgebers.
The powerpoint is over 40 slides long and includes numerous links to video clips, a longer documentary. I give the students a copy of the notes booklet and they complete this as we go through the ppt - saves time on too much note taking. To finish off there are some summary tasks: A crossword and a card sort summary task on biological rhythms.
It will last approximately 3-4 hours of teaching.
Try out this 5* rated lesson on biological rhythms for the biopsychology module.
Full lesson, activities and video links for Aqa Psychology new spec Issues and Debates. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper).
There is also some, exam questions, video links to gender biased adverts and a gap fill which can make up a sample essay on the topic.
Designed to recap the whole Schizophrenia module for AQA Psychology Teacher and Student Versions. . It includes diagnosis and classification, explanations, treatments and interactionist approach. 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.
This can be bought as part of a bundle with Schizophrenia revision activities.
I have also uploaded some revision powerpoints for first year topics too (Psychopathology, memory, attachment) and some second year (forensic)
A document that examines what questions have been asked on previous topics before on AQA Psychology papers (Year 2 ones only).
It plots how many marks have been asked on each sub-topic and then colour codes the topics by how likely there is to be an exam question on them in the next exam:
Red - less likely
Green - Likely
Disclaimer: AQA does not follow a pattern with exam questions and there is every chance even the “red coded” areas can be asked. This is purely for teachers to use to devise mocks etc and I wouldn’t advise giving this to students.
A simple checklist for students on two pages for the whole of the New AQA Psychology specification
Covers Paper 1, Paper 2 and Gender, Forensic, Schizophrenia and debates for paper 3.