The activity gets students to apply their knowledge of the bottom up approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling to 2 crimes cases. They have a 2 maps, 2 lists of crimes. They have to work out, using geogprahical profiling: If it is a marauder/commuter (they would need to have been taught this but most teachers do as part of geographical profiling). Where their home base is Building up an offender profile based on the evidence they have. This resource includes: 2 maps (best printed A3 doubled sided) - publisher 2 lists of crimes (best printed A4 double sided) - word - be careful, teacher answers are on the last page. Powerpoint introduction and instructions for the activity. This took my 4 classes 20-30 minutes. They loved doing it and it will definitely become a staple of my teaching. It is based in Peterborough but will work anywhere. Best taught straight after the AO1 on geographical profiling and before AO3.

This is a task used to get students to apply the AQA Psychology A Level Relationships topic to the film Love Actually. It’s become a staple of my course and is up there with the sweet neuron lessons, sampling with Skittles lessons. This idea being that they: Watch the film, Love Actually. As they watch they write down examples of Evolutionary explanations, Factors affecting attraction and theories of romantic relationships, as shown in the film. Then afterwards the teacher will go through some examples on the board of this to support them through the group work. The students will be put into groups and create an overview sheet on one particular topic (Filter Theory for example). They will then create a sheet referring to key terms and concepts, using examples from the film. I usually give them a lesson to start then the rest is homework. For obvious reasons, this download does not include the film. At various points this can be found on streaming sites. At time of putting this resource up it can be found on both Amazon Prime and Britbox. It is periodically on Netflix (often in the run up to Christmas). It’s a great pre-Christmas activity and allows you to have display work at the end of it. This file includes: Note sheet for students to fill in with examples from the film (A teacher cheat sheet to help prompt the students). I’ve also included the names of the main protagonists and pictures to help students. I’ve also included the times I would try to skip over in the film (roughly, please watch before showing students) as there are a few sex scenes in which may be a bit awkward to watch with your classes! Times can be found on the teacher cheat sheet. It also includes headings for the display. To get the full effect please download the following fonts (Helvetica and Helvetica Light (which mirror the Love Actually font) for the display titles. You can convert them but they won’t have quite the same effect. I’ve also included a couple of photos of the displays produced by my classes (in progress). You could get them to do it individually if you wish. https://www.fontsplace.com/helvetica-light-free-font-download.html https://freefontsfamily.com/helvetica-font-family/ If you have any questions please email me at jwilson@arthurmellows.org

Activity to label structure of a neuron. Colour coded table including part, description and function. Cut and stick exercise. Made for A Level Psychology but no reason it couldn't be used for other sciences. (Answers included)

I have created a revision booklet for Paper 1 OCR GCSE Psychology 9-1 (new spec). This has a variety of activities to help students revise the content for: Criminal Psychology Development Psychological Problems There is no research methods in this booklet. I have decided against putting it in this booklet as I feel it would be best as a stand alone booklet due to the fact it is in both papers. There are many research methods booklets available and little changes in research methods so people will want to use their own. Also, I have NOT included the studies in here. The reason is that I have a separate studies booklet that I get my students to fill in across the 2 years for homework. I have included this for you to use (if you wish). This is a page for each study for students to fill in. There are a variety of crosswords, word searches, gap fills, cryptograms, double puzzles and others. The criticisms involve note taking. There is also a front cover, you may wish to do your own, hence why it is at the end. A side note: I am a teacher (not a full time author, or part time for that matter), just like you! It has taken me roughly 20 hours to make this booklet, if you are expecting a bound revision booklet then please look elsewhere. This is mainly to help students revisit content alongside the Billingham book. Equally you are paying to be able to print as many copies of this for your own students as you like. Please do not reupload! Many thanks! If you have any questions please feel free to message me. I will eventually produce a booklet for Paper 2.

This is a series of resources to get students retrieving information from the memory and psychopathology. There is a bit of variety including: Bingo (2) Crosswords (2) Work out the picture (1) True/False (1) Pyramid Builder (2) Take 1 from each column (1) Anagrams (1) Odd one out (1) Sort the PEEL paragraphs (1) This is the answer, what is the question? (1) Characteristic card sort (1) And others I use this at the start of other topic lessons to force students to recall information about previous topics.

4 carousel activities (1 at each station) for students to complete to work out positives and negatives of the biological explanation of unipolar depression.

This is a sorting activity. Students put into groups and have to sort the slips into Approach, Name and Year, Aim, Procedure (1,2, or 3 slips), Results (1, 2 or 3 slips), Group design, Research method, 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage. There are also 7 red herrings that don't fit in any of the groups. To help students, keep checking their red herring pile. Tell them if they are right or wrong on the red herrings every so often. Students had great fun doing this. I put up a prize for the winning team. Took around 45 mins but students enjoyed it and took a lot from it. There are two attached files: one in colour for the teacher to distinguish between the different approaches) and one in black and white for students to sort through. Great for paper 3, comparing the different approaches and classic studies. It covers, Sherif, Baddeley, Raine, Watson and Rayner and Rosenhan Any questions, message me. Thanks

I put together 3 overview sheets covering Top Down and Bottom up approaches to offender profiling. There are 2 sheets on AO1 and 1 sheet covering AO3 (all word documents). Photocopy as many as you like for your students but please don’t share with other teachers. These took roughly 3 hours to make!

A workbook to complete in order to summarise each of the studies needed as part of the OCR GCSE Psychology course. APRCE template for each study. Each page has the same format where studies need to fill in information relating to the study. We set this for homework as a consolidation activity. Front page contains information that relates to our school but is uploaded as a publisher file and so can be deleted/adapted to your own school.