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
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.
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
AQA Psychology Full lesson for neural explanations (prefrontal cortex and amygdala damage in violent offenders) from the forensic topic.
Includes ppt with video links and suggested articles for reading. Fun tests the students can do to see their tendency toward being a “psychopath” in their thinking.
Help with PEEL evaluation points.
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.
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.
Designed to recap the whole of social influence for AQA Psychology. This includes, obedience, conformity, minority influence and resisting social influence. Most topics are condensed to one manageable slide that can be turned into revision cards - often more detail is included in the notes of the powerpoint.
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 most first year topics and Forensic, Gender, Schizophrenia & Issues and Debates for the second year topics.
Designed to recap the whole psychopathology topic for new spec AQA Psychology. Includes shortened notes for definitions of abnormality, OCD, Depression and Phobias
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. Or I get them to complete bits before we go through it. Another idea - You could delete more text off the student version and they could complete it all themselves for homework before you go through it.
I have also included a set of exam questions on psychopathology and some blank boxed for short plans for essays on the topics for second years.
I have also uploaded an attachment, Memory and some A2 topics (like Sz and Forensic).
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.
A full lesson for the AQA Approaches topic Origins of Psychology
Has a powerpoint and notes sheet that is completed as the powerpoint is worked through.
Several applied activities and videos included
Also has some exam questions and simplified mark schemes so the students can have a go at marking them themselves.
Full lesson, activities for Aqa Psychology new spe c 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). This notes sheet has some activities inbedded in it.
Activities include:
A card sort
A match task for evaluation
Exam Questions
Lesson is designed to last about 90 mins.
This is a full lesson and homework for the year 1 statistics part of the course. It has a ppt covering significance and the 5% level of probability as well as how to do a sign test.
It includes 3 examples of sign test studies to practise on including one where the students carry out their own study and collate the data to show the whole process. Note: One is tricky so can be an extension for stretch and challenge.
It also includes a homework sheet to practise sign tests, drawing conclusions and maths bits and another document of past sign test questions for more practise.
Answers/teacher copies are provided for the examples and homework.
A2 Stats lesson has also been uploaded and this can be bought as a bundle of all my first year lessons for RM.
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.
A couple revision lessons on the approaches - would take me at least 2-3 hours probably to cover this as its a 66 slide ppt with 10 documents in total. Couldlast even more if you get them to try out some of the exam questions and do all the worksheets.
PPT: Has short summaries of each of the approaches and then a series of exam questions, on each approach, to show key exam technique, advice for answering and sometimes sample answers.
Included is a student version with blanks to fill in, or to use to test their knowledge before going over each topic.
Documents: Includes a couple essay answer samples as well and lots of summary quick recall activities (blank table, key word knowledge check, crossword etc).
Full lesson, activities and video links for Aqa Psychology new spec. It includes a powerpoint presentation, with notes sheet (the students use this to take notes from the ppt, rather than note into book/paper).
The lesson includes:
Discussion Starter
Evaluation Match Task
Exam Questions
3 video links
Activities inbedded in notes sheet
Two possible blank essay plans
The lesson should take 1 hr 30 - 2 hrs to complete.
Designed to recap the whole Forensic module for AQA Psychology. It includes measuring crime, explaining crime, offender profiling and dealing with offending behaviour. 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.
I have uploaded a series of revision activities for Forensic too.
I have also uploaded some revision powerpoints for first year topics too (Psychopathology, memory, attachment)
Includes powerpoint and activities for Types of Experiments lesson.
It includes Table for students (blank and partially filled in)
Sample exam questions and a simplified mark scheme for peer assessment
Identifying type of experiment
Also uploaded experimental designs full lesson
This is a very detailled presentation (47 slides) about approaching AQA exam questions.
It covers:
Evaluation
Comparison
Application
Terminology (e.g use of the words reliability and validity)
It gives advice and examples to demonstrate how to succeed in AQA exams. Great for a revision lesson with students.
For AQA Psychology Forensic Topic. This is a full lesson on Atavistic form (Lombroso’s explanation). It includes a fun activity which can be done for open evening- serial killer or psychologist (the descriptions should be stuck on the back of the photos for each card).
After covering the features of Lombroso’s theory they examine their picture to see if their criminal has any of those features.