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.
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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.
Lesson covering the key study Von Frisch with engaging starter, carousel activity to discover the key components of the study and an AO2 exam style question for students to answer.
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.
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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.
TWO LESSONS!
I taught this as lesson 1 and 2 of the language scheme of work. It gives students a good insight into the difference between communication and language as well as the functions of animal communication and how that differs to human communication.
Activities include a practical starter, carousel activity, whiteboard plenaries, drawing venn diagrams and reference to exam style questions through a differentiated plenary.
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)
Two lessons worth of content covering AO1, AO2 and AO3 content for the Sapir Whorf hypothesis including reference to variation in recall of events and recognition of colour (separate yet linked spec point). Includes thought provoking starter activity, relevant and facilitating videos and differentiated AO3 activites.
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.
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.
Everything you need for delivering Year 1 and Year 2 approaches!
This resource includes all PPT slides, work booklet and full scheme of work for the approaches topic of paper 2 with issues and debates interleaved throughout. The SOW clearly identifies hierarchical outcomes, key questions and vocabulary, learnign activities, homework opportunities as well as how resources can be adapted to suit higher and lower ability students.
The resource covers:
Wundt
Biological approach
Behaviourism
SLT
Cognitive approach
Psychodynamic approach
Humanism
Comparison of approaches
Nature-nurture debate
Idiographic-nomothetic
Holism - reductionism
Determinism - free will
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.
Resource aimed at the AQA GCSE Psychology specification.
This resource include two student responses to the question “Outline and evaluate Gibson’s direct theory of perception (9 marks)” with a simplified mark scheme for students to use.
The “suggested content” section of the mark scheme is blank for students to use their notes to complete. Worked well as a pre-assessment lesson to introduce essay skills.
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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
Resource includes exam style questions ranging from 1 mark 'identify' questions to 9 mark 'describe and evaluate' essays including associated mark schemes.
Please note these mark schemes are not generated by AQA but were produced by myself as a result of hours of research looking at specimen papers and mark schemes relating to the new specification. This has involved my interpretation of mark schemes for questions that do not appear on the specimen paper on their website.
Two lessons work of content covering the body language section of the new GCSE specification.
Powerpoint includes activities to develop AO1, AO2 and AO3 skills including analysis of visual and written scenarios, differentiated evaluation and an independent approach to AO1 knowledge. Students are then given a creative literacy based task encouraging them to further apply their knowledge.
Powerpoint and resources covering the personal space content of the new AQA GCSE specification across two lessons.
The lesson includes opportunities for independent and collaborative learning with regular assessment of knowledge and links to exam style questions, including application questions and extended writing responses to assess AO1, AO2 and AO3 skills.
Activities are differentiated throughout the lesson.
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.
This lesson covers the function of eye contact as a feature of non-verbal communication.
It includes a practical starter and second practical activity (mini experiment), a description of each function of eye contact with supporting videos to consolidate and the evaluation of the usefulness of research into eye contact through a matching activity.
There is an exam focus towards the beginning of the lesson, breaking down exam questions and analysing responses as well as an exam/assessment driven differentiated plenary complete the structure strips for support.