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
A comprehensive revision guide covering all aspects of the Learning Theories A Level unit, suitable for the Edexcel A Level Psychology 2015 specification.
Contemporary study included: Capafons.
Revision guides are also available for Cognitive, Biological, Social, Clinical and Criminal units.
Former A Level student: “I am so grateful for the hours and hours that you put into making those revision guides, because they were the most helpful thing to use, and you should sell them because they are far better than any textbook I have bought!”
Edexcel A Level Psychology key term glossaries:
Paper 1 - social, cognitive, biological, learning, methods
Paper 2 - clinical, criminological
Command words
A comprehensive set of revision guides covering all aspects of the Paper 1 A Level units, suitable for the Edexcel A Level Psychology 2015 specification.
Social
Cognitive
Biological
Learning theories
Revision guides are also available for Clinical and Criminal units.
Former A Level student: “I am so grateful for the hours and hours that you put into making those revision guides, because they were the most helpful thing to use, and you should sell them because they are far better than any textbook I have bought!”
This is a component guide for BTEC Tech Award Health and Social Care Level 1/2 - Component 2 Health and Social Care Services and Values, Learning Aim A: understand the different types of health and social care services and barriers to accessing them. The document contains:
Assessment criteria
Command word definitions
Specification content (from BTEC)
Verna and Sam Williams case studies (from BTEC)
Assignment brief task instructions (from BTEC)
Section 1 guidance - explanation of how services meet needs A.1P1/A.1M1/A.2P1 (local examples provided for Kent and can be edited for your local area)
Section 2 guidance - explanation of barriers A.1P2/A.1M2/A.2P2
Section 3 guidance - analysing/assessing the suitability of services and barriers A.2M1/A.2D1
Marking guidelines (from BTEC)
The booklet contains checklists for what students need to include alongside tips and example paragraphs for guidance.
Please note that this document is intended as an overview of the work that students are required to produce for their portfolio work. This is not a booklet that would teach students the component taught content. This will support students in ensuring they have covered the required content when writing up their portfolio submission.
This is a component guide for BTEC Tech Award Health and Social Care Level 1/2 - Component 1 Human Lifespan Development, Learning Aim A Understand human growth and development across life stages and the factors that affect it. The document contains:
Assessment criteria
Command word definitions
Assignment brief task instructions (from BTEC)
Title page and introduction guidance
Section 1 guidance - growth and development over time A.1P1/A.1M1/A.2P1
Section 2 guidance - factors affecting development A.1P2/A.1M2/A.2P2
Section 3 guidance - comparing the impact of factors across three life stages A.2M1/A.2D1
Section 4 guidance - assessing the changing impact of factors across three life stages A.2D1
Learning aim A checklist
Marking guidelines (from BTEC)
The booklet contains checklists for what students need to include alongside tips and example paragraphs for guidance.
Please note that this document is intended as an overview of the work that students are required to produce for their portfolio work. This is not a booklet that would teach students the component taught content. This will support students in ensuring they have covered the required content when writing up their portfolio submission.
This is a component guide for BTEC Tech Award Health and Social Care Level 1/2 - Component 1 Human Lifespan Development, Learning Aim B Investigate how individuals deal with life events. The document contains:
Assessment criteria
Command word definitions
Assignment brief task instructions (from BTEC)
Interviewing friends/family guidance
Interview consent forms
Section 1 guidance - explanation of life events and their impact B.1P3/B.1M3/B.2P3
Section 2 guidance - explanation of support given B.1P4/B.1M4/B.2P4
Section 3 guidance - comparing and assessing adaptations and the role of support B.2M2/B.2D2
Learning aim B checklist
Marking guidelines (from BTEC)
The booklet contains checklists for what students need to include alongside tips and example paragraphs for guidance.
Please note that this document is intended as an overview of the work that students are required to produce for their portfolio work. This is not a booklet that would teach students the component taught content. This will support students in ensuring they have covered the required content when writing up their portfolio submission.
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 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.
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
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 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!
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
BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 Health and Social Care - Components 1 and 2 portfolio guidance documents.
Component 1 Learning aim A
Component 1 Learning aim B
Component 2 Learning aim A
Component 2 Learning aim B
Each document supports students in creating their portfolio submissions.
See individual items for full descriptions,
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.
Question and answer revision quiz cards relating to content from Edexcel A Level Psychology -
Social
Cognitive
Biological
Learning
Clinical
Criminological
Research methods
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 - Clinical Psychology:
Schizophrenia
Anorexia
Studies - Guardia, Carlsson, Rosenhan
Other - four Ds of diagnosis, classification systems DSM/ICD, diagnosis reliability/validity/cultural impacts, research methods, Bradshaw (case study), Vallentine (interview), practical, key question
Can easily be adapted if you have studied different optional content.