Student resources to develop writing answers to the 13 mark question. Plus a workbook on the different approaches in psychology.

Simply select a thunk and paste it onto your starter slide. Suitable for psychology students. Useful as a quick starter, though i wouldn’t use thunks every lesson.

Students work in groups to summarise each problem of the theory. Can be adapted to do a carousel activity, display clues on the board for each weakness, students have to read each one and match them up.

Print onto card to create sets for your students. Adaptable multiple uses for these, e.g. students create definitions and examples for each key term. Turn into a game round a board for prizes.

Print out onto coloured card, students summarise each theory and linking study as they work through the unit, should be done without notes. Store in a revision folder separate from class book and notes, then use as a revision resource later in the course. I have these for all units in the new spec. Email if you need them.

This worksheet supports the student in planning and writing their 13 mark essay style answer. It has a mark scheme attached and useful starter and connecting sentences. I used this following the study of the theories about criminal behaviour as exam practice. You could use it as an assessment or just to plan an answer.

Use this as a generic any theory worksheet template. It can be used to summarise, analyse, evaluate knowledge of a theory and has been adapted for psychological theories from the 6 thinking hats.

Use the presentation to teach about experiments and use the activities for students to write hypotheses and test their knowledge of variables.

Useful active learning activity to enable students to familliarise themselves with the various methods in psychological research. Appllicable for any GCSE spec.

An adaptable options assembly presentation used for students and parents prior to the options process.

This can be used as a starter or plenary. Can be done in pairs or solo, you could read over the answers and share student responses. Simple.

This worksheet describes the approaches and debates in psychology which are embedded in the new OCR spec. Students can learn about these through discussions or group work. The second page shows how the theories and studies in the new spec link to the different debates and approaches and has a student task that can run throughout the whole GCSE as students learn to apply the debates in evaluating studies and theories.

Simple but useful room displays. Useful for students to refer to. Or use as simple starter tasks.

Used together these allow students to revisit and recap knowledge of research methods and complete an independent activity to try out writing up research. Easy to differentiate and set targets for more/less able.

Background and context for students to plan, design and carry out a survey to study the link between strictness of parent and obedience levels. Worksheet to support this task.

This is a 4 page student hand out that focuses on the skills required for any A level exam board. Includes a break down of how to evaluate a theory and/or study, includes useful mnemonics for students to develop writing longer answers. Another page has a useful diagram displaying how to unpack the claims and components of a model or psychological theory.

These can be used in all kinds of ways, you could print onto coloured card, cut up and get students to match up the main critic’s point with the explanation. You could also cut them up and give one part to students, then get students to reconstruct the sheet.

These aim to develop student's ability to write longer answers. Not a writing frame, but should enable students to get started on the essay style question. One for Criminal behaviour, the other Obedience.

These 2 worksheets support students to plan and write about Piaget's stage theory and conservation study. One has partially written sentences, students then complete the answer to develop their exam skills on the 13 mark question. The other is about Piaget's stage theory and can be used as a writing frame for students to use with notes to develop extended writing or as an assessment after studying Piaget's stage theory.

This works to revise the theory and has a quick recap then the main task is for students to work in pairs on reconstructing the diagram of the MSM. The blank diagram is for students and should be printed and enlarged to A3. The idea is that students are allowed to “peep” at the original which is fully annotated, then take turns to build up their copy with the correct descriptions of the components of this theory. At the end of the power point there are 2 slides that can be differentiated in lots of ways to support independent writing about the theory.