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.

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

A revision framework for students to complete (please note this is a revision booklet for students to complete, not a revision guide) - covering description and evaluation of all Research Methods topics required for Paper 3. The Word Document contains a title page, extract from the specification and revision framework pages with subtitles such as description, strengths, weaknesses and examples. This could be set as independent work for students to complete as a revision activity after being taught research methods in the classroom, and is a great resource for virtual learning/an extended homework project. It could also be completed as a group or whole-class activity in the classroom.

PowerPoints for three one-hour lessons to introduce year 11 students to the topics covered within A Level Psychology and an accompanying scheme of work. The resources were created with reference to Edexcel, however the general themes will be relevant to most specifications and the PowerPoint can be edited as required. These PowerPoints have been used both in the classroom with students working in small groups, supported by current A Level students, and virtually during lockdown with students working independently and emailing the teacher their research proposals. LESSON 1 - Social Psychology An overview of obedience and Milgram’s research and students design their own obedience study LESSON 2 - Cognitive Psychology A memory test and discussion of eyewitness testimony applications and students design their own memory study LESSON 3 - Learning Theories An overview of Bandura’s bobo doll study and students design their own social learning theory study

This is a revision framework booklet for students to complete to summarise the main knowledge required for Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 - Clinical and Criminological Psychology. Please note this is a template for students to complete - not a revision guide. The booklet contains revision frameworks for all theories, studies, treatments etc. for Clinical and Criminal units. This can be easily edited to adapt for any different contemporary studies you teach. It also contains revision frameworks for the two key questions and two practical investigations. Finally, it has a key term glossary for each of the units too.

Frameworks for revision sheets for students to complete for any study or theory. Suitable for any specification and GCSE or A Level.

A comprehensive revision guide for Edexcel GCSE Psychology: Paper 1: Topic 5: Social Influence. 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 2: Memory. Unit checklist Content summaries Key term glossaries Links to websites and videos for support/stretch and challenge

A two-page document to define the command words used for Edexcel AS/A Level Psychology. The document contains the definitions provided by Edexcel alongside student-friendly breakdown of what this requires from them and examples. This could be printed and stuck at the front of students’ books/folders for easy reference.

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology, Paper 3 Section C 12marker preparation. Contains: Lesson PowerPoint Essay titles Worksheet + free follow-up lesson/extended homework activity PowerPoint Students work in groups to apply theories to unseen scenario questions, and evaluate their usefulness in explaining the scenario, to prepare them for AO1/AO2/AO3 scenario evaluate 12markers for Paper 3 Section C, referred to as “DEAC” essays in the PowerPoint.

Designed for Edexcel A Level Psychology to help students prepare for their A Level Paper 1, in relation to the Individual Differences and Developmental Psychology topics from all Paper 1 units: Social, cognitive, biological and learning theories. I used these resources over a series of 5 online virtual lessons, two for students to create a summary for individual differences, two for students to create a summary for developmental psychology and one for practicing related exam questions. The tasks could obviously be adapted to be group tasks for face to face teaching. Differentiation provided through structured support sheet and detailed exemplars. Lesson pack contains: PowerPoint presentations to support students in reviewing the content and creating their own summaries (x2) Support sheets to help students summarise the content (x2) Detailed exemplar grids with all ID and Dev Psych content summarised (x2) ID/Dev Psych practice exam questions Word Document

For Edexcel A Level Psychology (2015 new spec) - “Topic on a page” unit revision summaries. A3 posters designed for students to use to trigger further knowledge recall. Units and contemporary studies included - Social - Burger Cognitive - Schmolck Biological - Brendgren Learning - Capafons Clinical - Guardia Criminological (optional unit) - Howells Uploaded in Word Document format so that content can easily be edited by teachers (for example for different contemporary studies to be swapped out). Acronymns used: APRC = aim, procedure, results, conclusion SODA = supporting evidence, opposing evidence, different theory, application

Editable printable template for Psychology student double-sided key rings. Replace with your school name and student graduation year. These have gone down very well with students and are a cheap but effective end of year gift to give out before examinations or at a results day. Simply buy some blank rectangular key rings which can be bought in bulk from websites like Amazon or Ebay, and place inside two cut outs - one image and one school name.