2019 results +0.36 L3VA ALPs 3 at A Level. +0.91 P8 score at GCSE using these resources.
Head of Psychology and Assistant Head of Sixth Form at a large secondary school in South Yorkshire, teaching both GCSE and A Level Psychology to Y9-Y13. I aim to produce high quality resources that are easy to pick up and deliver but also provide a variety of activities to optimise pupil engagement whilst ensuring regular assessment tasks to ensure rapid progress.
2019 results +0.36 L3VA ALPs 3 at A Level. +0.91 P8 score at GCSE using these resources.
Head of Psychology and Assistant Head of Sixth Form at a large secondary school in South Yorkshire, teaching both GCSE and A Level Psychology to Y9-Y13. I aim to produce high quality resources that are easy to pick up and deliver but also provide a variety of activities to optimise pupil engagement whilst ensuring regular assessment tasks to ensure rapid progress.
Work booklet given to students to complete independently. Makes an excellent summer project or revision resource. Students had some knowledge of the issues and debates content but had not covered it in any great depth. This booklet therefore contains enough detail for them to have a good understanding of the content but also leaves enough gaps for the students to use their existing knowledge and additional research skills to complete. Knowledge review questions are included at the end of every sub topic.
As always, I recommend students use the Tutor2u and Simply Psychology sites as a point of reference.
Levels of explanation picture credit to Tutor2U Psychology.
Whole lesson (power point and activity worksheet) exploring the contribution of Wundt to the development of Psychology and Psychology as a science.
Lesson includes outline and evaluation of both Wundt and Psychology as a Science as well as exam practice, model answers and reference to exam mark schemes.
Basic, to the point, no frills revision powerpoint covering the whole of the social influence content.
I used this in afterschool revision with Y13 over a period of weeks to recap the year 1 content.
This lesson gives students the knowledge they need in order to outline and evaluate this key study as well as apply their knowledge to scenario based questions.
Highly student led, the lesson includes relevant video clips, fill in the gap activities, recap AO1 questions, application AO2 questions and student led evaluation via mindmap and live writing with WAGOLL evaluation paragraphs included for teacher (or student) reference.
Lesson looking at developing exam technique, particularly unpicking the question and writing extended essay responses.
Resources include powerpoint and two differentiated structure strips guiding students through responding to the question “Outline and evaluate the nature-nurture debate in relation to non-verbal communication” (9 marks)
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Bundle includes approximately 15 lessons worth of content covering the whole of the language, thought and communication specification for the new AQA GCSE Psychology qualification.
Each lesson includes a variety of activities, the majority of which are differentiated and regularly assesses AO1, 2 and 3 through a combination of AfL and summative assessment. Appropriate video clips are used throughout to contextualise and consolidate learning whilst engaging starter activities encourage students to think analytically and hypothetically about relevant content.
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Over 20 hours of year 1 and 2 research methods teaching content with independent study (flipped learning) tasks and exam style questions with mark schemes built in throughout. Scheme of work includes outcomes, key questions, key terminology and adaptations for lower and higher ability.
The lessons are designed in a way to allow more able students to move on to quickly, applying their knowledge by answering exam style questions, freeing up teacher time to focus on consolidating the knowledge of weaker students.
The completed booklet acts as an excellent revision resource to help students plan for their linear exams.
Specification content covered includes:
Experimental methods
Variables
Aims and hypothesis
Sampling
Experimental design
Pilot studies
Ethics
Descriptive statistics - measures of dispersion and central tendency, graphical displays and use of a table.
Distributions
Levels of measurement
Statistical testing including calcuating the sign test
Probability and significance
Using critical values tables
Type 1 and type 2 errors
General note from the author: Feedback is more than welcome. I am more than willing to update and resend resources that buyers are less than satisfied with.
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This bundle contains all the resources needed to deliver the Brain and Neuroopsychology topic of the AQA GCSE specification.
Included is at least 14 hours worth of teaching with regular formative and summative assessment throughout. Each lesson includes recap activities, engaging starters and student led activities with differentiated support resources to ensure all students find the lessons challenging but accessible.
There is a big focus on practising the application of knowledge to new scenarios that GCSE students typically struggle with.
Interim assessment and markscheme is also included.
Lesson covering Hebb’s theory of learning within the Neuropsychology topic on the new AQA specification.
Lesson includes a recap of prior knowledge (neurons, synapses, fight or flight) and then introduces students to the concept of brain plasticity. Activities include key term mix and match, read and summarise, application to contemporary examples, supporting video clips and extended reading homework to stretch the most able.
Two lessons looking at the main assumptions of the psychodynamic approach, the case of Little Hans and the evaluation with links to determinism.
Lesson contains fill in the gaps, a fun practical activity to get them thinking about the unconscious, a homework flipped learning activity, an AfL whiteboards activity and small exam style questions incorporated.
Learning objective:
To be aware of how addiction can be defined including chemical and behavioural addictions.
To know what you will study in addictive behaviours.
To have an understanding of what addiction is and be able to evaluate the definitions.
Extension: To have considered the difference between an addiction and an excessive enthusiasm
Skills: Effective participators Team work Evaluation
Includes an introduction to the specification content, defining and categorising addiction, examining the difference between addiction and an excessive enthusiasm, ASL true or false activity and flipped learning homework worksheet.
Suitable as an introductory lesson to the perception topic of the new AQA GCSE.
The PowerPoint goes through the difference between sensation and perception and includes activities such as fill in the blanks, AfL whiteboard tasks and a practical activity to demonstrate how once sense influences the perception of another.
One lessons worth of content covering content required to outline and evaluate Piaget’s theory at GCSE level. Starter activity encourages students to explore teleological arguments and to consider whether language dictates thought or vice versa. Includes independent reading and comprehension of AO1 task, whiteboard assessment check and mix and match evaluation activity.
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Over 20 hours of lesson content including interactive activities, regular assessment and progress checks, videos to contextualise knowledge and a whole topic intervention pack for those falling behind or with attendance concerns.
Resources covering the following sections of the specification:
Sensation and perception
Depth cues
Gibson's theory
Gregory's theory
Factors affecting perception (student led activity booklet)
Revision lesson
Intervention booklet (or homework/revision booklet)
Exam style questions
Lesson covering the James-Lange theory of emotion for the new AQA GCSE 9-1 specification.
Lesson includes whiteboard recap of prior learning (fight or flight and nervous system - relevant to today’s lesson), engaging starter to introduce students to the concept of emotion, and a series of student led tasks including gap fills, AO2 application style questions (with helpsheet and sentence starters available for lower ability), research support analysis and colour coded PEE evaluation.
Introductory lessons in the development unit developing student knowledge of early brain development. Students are engaged through wholly student led tasks developing their knowledge of key terms, key brain areas and the influence of nature vs nurture.
Experience teaching these lessons (2x50 minutes) highlighted the fact that it is meant to challenge the most able through the use of extended reading and newspaper articles but can be easily differentiated down with weaker students only completing some of the nature/nurture tasks. The thinking and discussion questions can be used as plenary/starter to assess progress between lesson 1 and 2.
Resource is part of the Language, Thought and Communication topic within the GCSE AQA Psychology specification.
An engaging and student led lesson covering Darwin’s theory of non-verbal behaviour. This fully differentiated lesson is designed to gradually build on student’s knowledge whilst simultaneously developing examination skills. Previous students have found this lesson very accessible with assessments showing a good understanding of Darwin’s theory.
Lesson 1 Learning objective:
To explain the neurological explanation of nicotine addiction – Grade D
To give evidence to support this explanation – Grade C
To evaluate this explanation including issues, debates and approaches – Grade B/A
Lesson 2 Learning objective:
To apply knowledge of the neurological explanation of addiction to exam style questions
Recapping synaptic transmission (Year 1 content), outline of initiation, maintenance and relapse according to the neurochemical explanation with videos describing how addiction works and links to websites showing the excitation of the reward pathway. Includes supporting research and evaluation including key issues and debates. Lesson 2 looks at applying knowledge to answer a 16 mark response with mark scheme provided.
Two lessons looking at labelling a neuron and the steps of synaptic transmission. The first lesson looks at building knowledge whilst the second lesson contains differentiated activities to assess their understanding.
Powerpoint activity tackling the discussion of gender bias.
Students were set a preparatory task the lesson before to make notes on the different types of gender bias. Therefore this lesson focuses on consolidating this knowledge and the discussion of the debate.
The final activity guides students through planning a 16 mark response to this question.