GCSE psychology- development- lesson 3. Piaget's stages of development in education.

This is lesson 3 of a series of lessons covering the development topic. This lesson focuses on linking Piaget’s stages of development to education. There is also emphasis on the research method observations in this lesson. The powerpoint consists of a total of 10 slides and is designed to fill a 90 minute lesson. This lesson goes alongside the development workbook which is also available in my shop.

Included:

• a starter activity based on the psychological problems topic, this acts as a retrieval practice task.
• recap- what are Piaget’s four stages of development?
• three slides explaining how Piaget’s developmental stages have been applied to classroom practices.
• student task- fill in the blanks activity, students should be able to do this based on what has just been explained. A screen shot of this worksheet is included on the powerpoint, but the actual activity is within the booklet.
• link to research methods- explanations of different types of observation as well as their strengths and weaknesses.
• student task- testing Piaget’s stages. Students are encourages to design a task which will test Piaget’s stages, detailed instructions are included on the powerpoint along with a short video clip which gives students an example.
• Plenary- scrabble game, students should try to come up with the highest scoring key term from the lesson.