This shop offers a variety of resources for use with EDEXCEL and AQA A and AS level Psychology, I have taught both specifications and love them both, love the freedom and power of preparation for Edexcel but also love the content in AQA. I have had great success myself with my resources and hope you do to!
This shop offers a variety of resources for use with EDEXCEL and AQA A and AS level Psychology, I have taught both specifications and love them both, love the freedom and power of preparation for Edexcel but also love the content in AQA. I have had great success myself with my resources and hope you do to!
This pack includes an A3 printable resource - which are great laminated! Can be used with dry erase pens or the tiles included .
The image is a final resource, the tiles can be used as they are in the file, added to or changed as you see fit.
The A4 worksheet is great for individual work - to be filled in with either Maslow’s hierarchy for later revision purposes in students notes/files, or used as a task for the student to think about what their own hierarchy would be. This promotes thought about the concept of Humanism. (A powerpoint lesson to accompany this will be up in the next few days and available separately or as part of a pack).
This task allows students to think about Maslow’s ideas of what the hierarchy looks like and what their own would look like, and how the impact of simple things such as food and shelter do have an impact on our goals and what we can achieve. When used alongside a scenario as in the powerpoint this can be a powerful tool to promote discussion and deeper thought about the topic of humanism.
This download also includes a Humanism handout giving an overview of the approach with evaluation points.
The printable section has the tiles which you can add to or remove from, and includes some blank squares which are great to use if students want to add their own ideas in there to. Which can be added as an extension task. You can also add the tiles with the layer names on as an extension and discuss whether these might move if they re-arranged the tiles for themselves.
Its a nice task, to look at how Maslow suggests it should look and then getting students to re-arrange it for what they think it might look like for them.
*I do not own the copyright to the image of Maslow, this was sourced via creative commons on a search engine.
This encompasses 2-3 lessons with opportunity for some of this to be done as homework, it includes review of methodology (quant vs qual) and what approaches are idiographic and nomothetic including examples.
There are extensive writing opportunities which culminate at the end as the elements of a 16 mark essay (AQA). The handout referred to are actually the pages on the topic in the cat/dog books, which i cannot share here as i do not own them.
The complete process will walk learners through both approaches, as well as how to evaluate them, it includes an example essay plan, room for them to create their own as well as 2 example 8 mark essays that can be fused together with 2 additional paragraphs to make a 16 mark essay - these 2 essays allow for close consideration and development of understanding of each approach.
There are also some examples and match up exercises to test knowledge - and the links to an online website (which i do not own or did not create) is attached which is useful to use for revision.
I have also attached at the end some video recommendations for students or teachers to use as part of learning or as consolidation of learning.
NOTE THE FONT I USED IN THIS POWERPOINT AND WORKBOOK IS THE HAND, THIS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE ON ALL VERSIONS OF POWERPOINT AND WORD SO YOU MAY NEED TO RESIZE THINGS IF YOU ARE USING A DIFFERENT FONT.
NOTE THE GAPS IN THE WORKBOOK THAT REFER TO A HANDOUT ARE IN REFERENCE TO USING TEXTBOOKS - THE ONE USED PRIMARILY FOR THIS IS THE CAT DOG BOOK DOUBLE SPREADS.
This bunting has several varieties and colours.
PSYCHOLOGY letter bunting in 3 colourways and fonts
Psychology A-Z in 3 colourways with additional letters for alternates in the alphabet for 6 letters.
Bunting can be cut out to shape or just kept as rectangles, and include images which can be printed in colour or black and white.
i recommend laminating these for strength and longevity.
I do not own the rights to the images used, the clipart images are royalty free. These are A4 size but could be altered in size as these are on a powerpoint.
This workbook covers the AS or first half of topics up to and including fight or flight response.
The pages are numbered for easy class reference and powerpoints will be added soon - there are engaging activities and pages to record lesson notes, presented in an easy to engage with and understand way.
I do not own the rights to some of the images in the book and some of the activities were property of my mentor which she has given me permission to use in my version of this workbook. However, the majority of this workbook is mine and was created by myself.
This take on a very famous board game encourages students to not ask about appearance but more in-depth information to guess who their opponent has. This is a nice end of year task that makes revision fun and gets students thinking about what to ask and how.
Great to print and laminate and easy to store and carry.
All you need is a board for each player to use (dry erase markers if you are laminating them) and then another board printed out and cut out to make the cards that players choose their psychological figure from.
A lot of fun!
This resource is for AQA Psychology specification.
This resource is best printed in A3.
They are double sided resource sheets which provide essay points and all relevant information for all issues and debates
And include a 16-mark essay plan to help students prepare for exams.
These work well in conjunction with the cat/dog books but also can be used as standalones.
They include examples for year 12 and year 13 and include a diagram for each debate which shows where the approaches sit on each debate which is a useful tool.
This is a template for an evaluation ladder. Each ladder has a point which you can fill in or for stretch and challenge have students complete. They then have room for evidence and explain. Ideally they should be able to fit this into this as an exam paragraph shouldn’t really be longer than what can be fitted here (dependent on handwriting size of course).
You can also print this out as A3 as a table exercise, and rotate it so one group writes a point then the next has to evidence. This leaves more room for students to work and collaborate.
Good tool to use to ensure that students are writing complete paragraphs and understanding a point is not worth a point unless you evidence and explain it.
As for linking, this is lightly greyed out and has a smaller area, this is more high level student as not all students can manage to do this, I always advise as long as you PEE then you are good, but the option is there.
There is a topic, student name and mark box so you can do some peer marking or have it as a homework exercise, though its also a good revision tool in upcoming revision sessions - exams are looming ever closer!
This resource is a lesson to consolidate learning on validity and reliability with some hands on activities to get students actively thinking and putting in to practice valid and reliable measuring tools and considering their usefulness.
This resource includes a powerpoint, handout with space for students to write notes on the activities and the activity workbook student and teacher version. All you need is scissors and rulers, possibly glue and some spare plain paper. Students seem to really enjoy and get engaged in this lesson and it really seems to help them work out the difference between the two concepts.
There are two of the student workbook files, one labelled student file, another that is the teacher version, the only difference is that the photos for Lombroso for validity analysis have an additional page with the answers on should you not know who the people in the photographs are - . the only one not a criminal is 14, who is an actor from the Hills have eyes, the others are all criminals but some may not fit Lombrosos atavistic form theory which is where the discussion about validity gets really interesting.
This lesson is a nice taster for the criminological module that gets students thinking about crime, considering real cases and thinking about what crime is and if it is universal.
These dominoes cover Attachment - caregiver-infant interactions and the stages of attachment, including research by Meltzoff and Moore and Schaffer and Emerson and are a nice alternative to flashcards that make recall more interactive and done in pairs rather than alone.
2 pages of dominoes which can be printed and laminated for long term use and can be edited for use with other topics.
This resource is for the first 1 hour lesson in Criminology focusing on the awareness of crime and covering white-collar, moral and state crime. This lesson is 1 of 2 on this subject.
This resource includes powerpoint and lesson plan, as well as the first of the definitions cut outs to begin creating a wall of useful definitions for the subject. It also includes part 1 of a 2 part poster covering the 5 crimes covered in this unit - this is an a3 poster, but could be printed a4 and includes space to write on examples of crimes or add on post it notes with crime examples on and is designed for individual teacher creativity - it covers only definitions of the 3 crimes covered in this lesson but is useful as a visual prompt reminder.
There is no home work for this lesson and part 2 will be up shortly.
This lesson is for the key question for learning theories, comprising of a brief powerpoint that highlights some of the materials to use for AO1 and AO2.
Includes 2 sets of flashcard files - a mini version and a larger version - i have 7 printed, laminated and attached with a ring which students use in class, but they can have a set of their own which would be useful for revision and is a good introduction on how to make flashcards work.
This essay culminates in writing the essay.
Lesson includes a link to a quizlet of the flashcards with an option to test - as this is coming up on the 2022 exams this could prove useful.
This double sided placemat was designed for a student in my creative writing and english literature classes that has dyslexia, she has an alphabet in front of her on paper to help her form the words she wants to write and I designed and made this and laminated it so she could put it in her file and have it for every lesson instead of the scrap of paper she kept losing. This was a great success for her and formed part of my QTLS entry.
This powerpoint provides a one hour lesson for AS revision, using the revision clock and providing an overview of required knowledge for each topic - in this sense it becomes a handy revision tool for students to navigate to sections from the links in the menu to areas they need to focus on.
Also useful for A2 learners revising the topic for final exams.
This is a large powerpoint as it encompasses all materials for this module.
This is a resource i created to print on astrobrights paper or on white paper, each month is customisable with your own imagery, i just used some clipart creative commons (i do not claim ownership of the images). These are just curated and include one empty label for you to customise for yourself.
This resource includes a flow chart poster in A3, as well as an acitivity that includes both an easy and hard level, or AS and A2 level worksheet task.
The activity document contains an instruction sheet for easy and hard as well as a blank flowchart for both difficulties.
The idea is to fit all the terms into the flowchart to complete the structure of a psychological study:
Great as an introduction for AS - the sections are colour coded and match up with future resources, this enables sectioning of the materials and easier delivery and understanding. This can be delivered as a starter to get students thinking or at the end of delivery to check learning and understanding.
Great as an overview for A2 after delivery of second year content, at this stage they should be able to complete the flowchart with ease.
Included is a blank A3 resource with cards for each of the elements that students can use in a more hands on way in groups, arranging the cards on the flowchart where they think they should go - there is an easy version with coloured cards and a hard version with boxes without colour. The different versions will stretch and challenge and can be used to cater to different levels of ability and learning.
More resources will be added on research methods, these will be colour coded to the specific areas on the flowchart.
This bundle is a lesson on sampling techniques including:
1.Power point lesson
2.Teacher guidance notes
3.Student workbook
4.Match up AFL sampling techniques scenarios - done as part of powerpoint or on paper/activity
5.Sort your sample palette - alternative to buying paint palettes
6.How to… work out mean, median, mode and percentages
7.Sampling techniques/research methods homework - including bar chart interpretation and percentages
8.Revision tools document which has 1 page which is to be split to create revision cards and 1 page for a spidergram revision tool which i do at the end of every lesson for a few minutes (there are 2 tools so students have choice of which to make)
These resources used together create a lesson on the different types of sampling techniques - but also involves calculating percentages as well as drawing and interpreting data from bar charts. And encourages thought around advantages and disadvantages of each technique.
The homework sheet could be done in class as an end of lesson AFL to be handed in for marking.
Its a simple lesson but effective in delivering the concept of the 5 sampling techniques, how they are used, and gets students thinking about the concept of samples and how they represent society as a whole - useful particularly when it comes to social influence later on where the studies had male participants.
This resource aims to help students who struggle with STEM questions, enabling them to write the question on the sheet then split the psychology and find the example in the stem and write it in another box alongside it. This enables the student to practice examining the stem for the psychology required to answer the question, and then to look at the STEM example and find the example that goes with the psychology,
This resource enables students to be able to separate the study from the psychology.
The worksheet has space to write out everything they know about the study and then below how that relates to the psychology from the question.
Sometimes students find it hard to think about what the study entailed and the psychology of it, and then to use that knowledge to answer a question - this enables students to practice pulling apart studies in relation to specific questions.
This download has 3 files - 1 is an instructional example file, the second is a worksheet with question and conclusion fields and the third is a simple sheet with no question or conclusion fields, useful for practice - such as writing information about studies across the top and then writing what psychology it relates to at the bottom, such as arguments it supports, approaches it belongs to etc.
A nice simple worksheet to use to help students focus on what a question is actually asking them. A colourful way to organise and break down knowledge in order to understand what is needed to answer a question.
This is a great AFL tool as students can fill them in for exam questions and hand them in, this can help identify where the student needs to make improvements and can help them in better planning for answering exam questions.