This is developed for sociology but with minor alterations could be used elsewhere in the curriculum. This resource could also be used in teacher training/mentoring on how to teach students how to write essays. It provides step by step instructions and has a task at the end. You need to provide your own exemplar essay or download one of mine to use with the tasks at beginning and possibly the end too

This presentation explores the characteristics of a science and explores the debate about whether psychology is a science It contains graphics images, opportunity for debate and tries to present arguments the student may use

This is a PPT based on earlier AQA spec but updated for new EDEXCEL psychology learning theories key issue

Introductory lesson on the learning approach for new Edexcel spec

Using images and questions introduces the different types of validity which psychology strucent have to understand. 20 slides and nearly as many questions for debate

This is an end of unit lesson on adoption studies to go with the biological approach specifically: The environment of adoptive children is not the same as that of their biological families They have genes in common. Can be used to assess the extent to which behaviours such as aggression are the result of nature (genes) or nurture (environmental influences). This is done by comparing the children to their biological parent and their adoptive parent. If the children are more similar to their biological parents this supports nature. If they are more similar to their adoptive parents this supports nurture

This presentation covers the various types of graphical presentation which students need to know in first year A level

Made to go with the new Edexcel psychology research in context but would be equally useful for OCR and AQA. This lesson pairs up with the repvious lesson on lab experiments which I have uploaded.

This was developed to go with the psychology research methods in context for new Edexcel psychology syllabus but would be suitable for AQA and OCR too. It is a mixture of presentation and exercises to re enforce learning.

A lesson on research design using sticklebricks as an illustration of independent groups and why repeated measures can't always be used...

a bad questionnaire for students to criticise

Introduces all the types of validity psychologists need to know using 20 slides and 20 questions.

Single lesson suitable for all new UK psychology specs but delivered for Edexcel

This is a single lesson designed to give an overview of the cognitive approach to psychology. It is not specific to any exam board

This presentation covers all the bases for agency theory with solid real world examples which will help students remember the key elementd

This lesson is suitable for all new specs in psychology but this was delivered as part of Edexcel psychology

This is a lesson with activities to introduce qualitative methods. These is a lot of content in this so you may want to split into two. The basic content could also be adapted for psychology too. Students need to understand PERVERT for an exercise included here but it is fully explained in a slide you can use or print out as a "mat" for lessons

Short (2.4 minutes) discussion starter on why there may be cross cultural variations in attachment

It is a video presentation. It is designed to help the student explore issues with the definition of abnormality, specifically relativism and social construct.