This is the second lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers identifying monocular and binocular depth cues and recognising them. LO1: Identify some of the ways we understand distance in our vision. LO2: Describe how different depth cues work. LO3: Recognise depth cues in different situations. The activities include a starter, explanations and examples, a worksheet and finally a question allowing the students to applying their new knowledge to unfamiliar situations. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the fifth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a comparison between the principles of Gibson’s and Gregory’s theories of perception, including evaluations. LO1: Recall the key points of two theories of perception. LO2: Draw parallels between two theories of perception. LO3: Apply knowledge of theories of perception to exam-style questions. The activities include starter questions,recalling knowledge from the previous two lessons, comparing elements of said knowledge, and finally guided practice in the responding to exam-style questions. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the eight lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a culture as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Identify ways in which motivation can influence our perception. LO2: Describe Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study into motivation and perception. LO3: Evaluate Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study into motivation and perception. The activities include quick quiz of 5 starter questions to recall elements of the previous lesson, a class discussion covering motivating factors for the students and then the creation of a storyboard to describe Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study. Finally, the students construct an evaluation of the study using the mark scheme to an AQA exam question. Students select the points they wish to include and expand upon each whilst linking their ideas together to form coherent evaluation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the second lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe the aim of Baddeley’s 1966 study into memory encoding. LO2: Understand how Baddeley carried out his study into memory encoding. LO3: Evaluate Baddeley’s study. The activities include recall questions as a starter, some short video clips, AQA exam-style questions, a memory task for the students to complete, notes and diagrams and finally a plenary question. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the sixth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Recreate Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts reconstructive memory study. LO2: Describe the findings of Bartlett’s study. LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Bartlett’s study. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a worksheet and a evaluation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the seventh lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe the theory of reconstructive memory. LO2: Explain real life examples of reconstructive memory. LO3: Discuss the strengths and limitations of reconstructive memory. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a short video to watch and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the fifth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe Murdock’s Serial Position Curve study LO2: Explain the results of Murdock’s study. LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Murdock’s study. The activities include recall questions as a starter, some short video clips, AQA exam-style questions, a memory task for the students to complete, notes and diagrams and a graph to produce. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the fourth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe the features of the MSM LO2: Explain examples of memory using the MSM model LO3: Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the MSM The activities include recall questions as a starter, some short video clips, AQA exam-style questions, tasks for the students to complete, notes and diagrams. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the eighth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Describe what interference is, in terms of memory. LO2: Explain real life examples of interference in memory. LO3: Discuss the strengths and limitations of the theory of memory interference. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, exam style questions and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the tenth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: Define the term ‘false memory’. LO2: Describe a study into false memories. LO3: Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of a study into false memories. The activities include a starter question, independent tasks for the students to complete, notes, and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the seventh lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a culture as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Identify ways in which emotion can influence our perception. LO2: Understand methods of investigating emotion and perception. LO3: Evaluate McGinnie’s study into emotion and perception. The activities include an introduction to the lesson with a class discussion about how the emotion of Christmas affects our behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Students then transform the description of McGinnies study into a story board before beginning the evaluation. To construct the evaluation, students will sort sets of statements into groups that then need to be sequenced to produce a coherent evaluation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the ninth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a expectation as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Identify ways in which expectation can influence our perception. LO2: Describe Bruner and Minturn’s study into expectation and perception. LO3: Evaluate Bruner and Minturn’s study into motivation and perception. The activities include some interactive activities which will get the students thinking about expectation, reading and the links between the two. A video follows this about min-heard song lyrics - again, based on expectation. A definition of expectation is given before the students must summarise the methodology and findings of Bruner and Minturn’s study. Finally, the students construct an evaluation of the study on their worksheet. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the tenth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a expectation as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Recall the four factors that affect the perceptual set. LO2: Summarise the key points of these theories and/or studies. LO3: Apply our knowledge of these factors in answering exam-style questions. The activities include having the students transform information on the theories, studies and evaluations behind the four factors affecting perception into much reduced summaries (a ‘thinking hard’ skill). If pressed for time, students could work in groups to share the workload. Students then choose from a set of AQA exam-style questions based on the four factors affecting perception. The relative difficulties are clearly labeled on the presentation. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the Ninth lesson in the topic of MEMORY in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. Updated January 2023 The lesson covers encoding, storage and retrieval of memories and introduces the topic. LO1: State what is meant by context. LO2: Describe Godden and Baddeley’s experiment. LO3: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the experiment. The activities include recall questions as a starter, a memory task for the students to complete, notes, a short video to watch, a psychological study to summarise and an evaluation to complete. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

This is the sixth lesson in the topic of PERCEPTION in the AQA GCSE Psychology course, 8182. The lesson covers a culture as a factor which affects the perceptual set and includes definitions, descriptions of a study and evaluations. LO1: Define the terms perceptual set and culture. LO2: Describe and explain the ways in which culture affects perception. LO3: Evaluate the cultural factors affecting perception. The activities include an introduction to the terms ‘perceptual set’ and ‘culture’ with an activity which has the students consider what culture is before moving on to reading about Hudson’s study and then checking their understanding with a short quiz. Finally, student work through guided practice in constructing evaluations of the theory and study. I designed this as a double lesson (100 mins) but can be delivered over two shorter lessons. My lessons follow the textbook ‘AQA Psychology for GCSE’ from Illuminate Publishing.

I designed this Christmas themed lesson based on an idea from the Perception topic (emotion as a factor that affects perception). Learning objective 1: Identify ways in which emotion can influence our perception Students will be required to think about how their excitement and feelings towards Christmas change as 25 December approaches. Through class discussion, students will exchange ideas on why Christmas excites people. Learning objective 2: Explain the results of studies into the effects of emotion on perception Students will answer two short exam-style questions (5 marks total) about a simple investigation into how the emotion revolving around Christmas affects children before and after the event. Learning objective 3: Carry out an investigation to explore the effects of emotion on perception Students will take part in a simple investigation where they look through a list of 25 words. They have to select the 6 words that they prefer out of all of the others. 6 of the words are Christmas themed. Students may be influenced by the time of year to choose these words without realising. They will then look at the class’ result and draw conclusions.

This lesson is suitable for the AQA Chemistry and the AQA Combined Science Trilogy GCSE courses. It is a full powerpoint presentation complete with LOs, student-led practical activities and animations. This lesson has been designed to last approximately 60 minutes and follows the format of starter, core activity, development activity and plenary. The worksheets and exam questions referred to in the lesson are also included. Learning objectives (part 1) Identify the different ways we have represented the atom throughout history Describe features of these different atomic models Summarise experimental data that has led to changes in our understanding of atomic structure This lesson meets the following specification points: Learning objectives (part 2) Identify the structure of an alpha particle Describe how alpha particles were used to disprove the plum-pudding model Discuss the ways in which new evidence leads to new scientific theories This lesson meets the following specification points: AQA Chemistry 4.1.1.3 Development of the model of the atom (common content with physics) AQA Combined Science Trilogy 5.1.1.3 Development of the model of the atom (common content with physics)

This lesson contains everything that your students need to know about how to perform a selective Life Cycle Assessments as per the AQA specifications for Chemistry (8462), Combined Science Triology (8464) and Combined Science Synergy (8465). The lesson takes your students through how to evaluate the environmental impact of each of the different stages of a product’s life cycle as well as how to critique the usefullness of any given LCA. The lesson resources include the teaching presentation, information sheets and past AQA exam questions.