Resources from a Head of Psychology teaching Edexcel A Level and GCSE Psychology, with previous experience teaching BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 Health and Social Care
Resources from a Head of Psychology teaching Edexcel A Level and GCSE Psychology, with previous experience teaching BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 Health and Social Care
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 1 - Social Psychology.
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 - Criminological Psychology:
Theories of crime
Understanding the offender
Treatments for offenders
Jury decision making
Eye witness testimony
Loftus and Palmer
Howells
Practical investigation
Key question
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 1 - Cognitive Psychology.
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 2 - Biological Psychology.
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.
Symptom definition and definition cards for schizophrenia and anorexia, to support Edexcel A Level Psychology Clinical Psychology.
This can be used as a matching card sort game, a pair-match game or just as revision cards
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 and/or Edexcel AS Psychology Paper 2 - Learning theories
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.
Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology, but could be used for any Psychology specification at A Level or GCSE - Edexcel, AQA, OCR etc.
Study revision framework-
Description: aim, procedure, results, conclusion
Evaluation: generalisability, reliability, applications, validity, ethics
Conclusion (practice for essay style conclusion - adaptable for different specifications)
Theory revision framework-
Description: claims, components
Evaluation: supporting evidence, opposing evidence, different theory, application
Conclusion (practice for essay style conclusion - adaptable for different specifications)
I send students these blank frameworks at the beginning of the year and leave a master copy in my classroom for students to print/photocopy enough for the year. They complete these frameworks either in lesson whilst learning a theory/study, or as a homework revision consolidation task. It encourages students to be concise whilst note taking, but ensures all essential criteria for the exam are covered.
Unit checklists for Edexcel A Level (or AS) Psychology - can be given to students when beginning each unit, to be used as a checklist to cross off when they have studied each topic. Or could be used as a revision tracker.
Includes unit checklists for:
Social
Cognitive
Biological
Learning
Clinical
Criminal
A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 3: Psychological Problems.
Unit checklist
Content summaries
Key term glossaries
Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge
A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 4: The Brain and Neuropsychology.
Unit checklist
Content summaries
Key term glossaries
Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge
Knowledge questions
A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 2: Topic 9: Sleep and Dreaming.
Unit checklist
Content summaries
Key term glossaries
Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge
A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 2: Topic 6: Criminal Psychology.
Unit checklist
Content summaries
Key term glossaries
Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge
Individual unit learning journeys - GCSE and A Level Psychology - Edexcel
This is a PowerPoint of slides which contain unit overviews for both **GCSE 9-1 Edexcel Psychology and Edexcel A Level Psychology. **
Each slide contains the unit name, a visual overview of the main topics and a description of the “journey” within the unit - what the students will study, the main focus of the unit and how the knowledge can be used in further study.
Each slide could be displayed to students at the beginning of the unit, the slides could be printed for a pack at the front of students’ exercise books/folders, or the slides could be printed for a classroom display and displayed in the sequence of teaching.
The optional units included are sleep and dreaming and criminal psychology for GCSE, and criminological psychology for A Level.
Option evenings display resources
Subject information leaflets
Taster session PowerPoint
Promotion assembly PowerPoint
£4 when purchased separately - £2 as a bundle!
Please see individual items for full descriptions
This is a detailed document to highlight AO1 AO2 and AO3 skill descriptors, separated into different tiers for years 12 and 13 students. The resource contains mark scheme information alongside student friendly descriptions and examples. This could be displayed in the classroom or printed for students’ exercise books and folders. This is suitable for Edexcel A Level Psychology.
This is a PLC (personalised learning checklist) for Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Psychology. Please note that the optional units covered in this resource for Paper 2 are Criminal Psychology and Sleep and Dreaming.
The resource has two sheets, one suitable for a two-year curriculum and one suitable for a three-year curriculum.
The Excel spreadsheet has all sub-topics from every unit, and a column for each term of the course for students to colour using a RAG confidence rating. This could be printed and kept at the front of students’ books/folders and coloured in by them, or of course it could be shared as an electronic resource and completed by changing the colour of the cells.
This bundle is suitable for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Psychology specification and includes the following:
Assembly PowerPoint to promote the GCSE course to year 8/9 students
Taster session PowerPoint used in conjunction with a “brain hat” activity (brain hat worksheet not included as this is not mine - but easily found online for free)
Subject overview leaflets to hand out during options evenings, taster sessions or assemblies
Options evening display resources
Full descriptions of each resource:
ITEM 1: Assembly PowerPoint to promote the GCSE course to year 8/9 students
PowerPoint presentation for a brief overview of the course and student suitability for GCSE 9-1 Edexcel Psychology. This PowerPoint could be used for a year 8 or 9 assembly, or could be used at the beginning of a GCSE Psychology taster session.
ITEM 2: Taster session PowerPoint used in conjunction with a “brain hat” activity (brain hat worksheet not included as this is not mine - but easily found online for free)
This is a PowerPoint to support a “taster” session with year 8 or 9 students, before they choose to study Psychology at GCSE level. This PowerPoint is suitable for the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE Psychology specification. The PowerPoint encourages students to define Psychology themselves, discusses a definition of Psychology, briefly overviews the course topics and structure and then supports students to engage with a brain hat creation activity.
*Please note that the 3D brain hat worksheet is not included in this resource, as this is not my work - but it is readily available for free online from a quick search. *
Please note that an extension activity directs students to use the Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Psychology textbook - this can easily be removed if you do not have the textbooks accessible for students.
ITEM 3: Subject overview leaflets to hand out during options evenings, taster sessions or assemblies
ITEM 4: Options evening display resources
This is a selection of printable pages to create a options evening display to advertise GCSE 9-1 Edexcel Psychology to year 8/9 students/parents thinking of studying the course.
The document includes:
An overview A4 page for each unit (criminal and sleep optional units included here)
A4 brain image (or can be printed in A3) and unit titles (could be stuck around the brain image with string)
QR code for the Pearson GCSE Psychology website
Quotes about why students choose to study Psychology
A4 page overview of what Psychology is
A4 page about what the course requires
A4 page about assessment
GCSE Psychology labels
Just print, laminate and you’re ready to go!
A Level (or could be used for GCSE) Psychology writing frames posters, for display in the classroom or for use in student exercise books/folders. Designed with Edexcel in mind, but could be used for any specification.
The poster pack includes:
Describing a study using APRC
Evaluating a study using GRAVE
Describing a theory using CC
Evaluating a theory using SODA
Writing a paragraph using PEEL
Essay types (Edexcel A Level specific - remove if using other specifications)
Concluding an essay