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Psychology Lesson Plans and
Resources
Psychology Lesson Plans
Seven lesson plans from The Educator's Reference
Desk. Also, see
Psych
Site
for a psychology dictionary as well
as student activities and resources
for instructors.
Prentice-Hall AP Psychology
Brief lesson plans corresponding to
the PH Psychology text.
Psychology
Portal
Many rsources for teachiing psychology from Saskatchewan
Education.
Teaching
about Mental Retardation: Ideas for
Classroom Activities
Two activities, complete with
handouts, that I use in my Exceptional
Learners class (Education 105) to teach
college students (mostly first-year)
about mental retardation. I believe
the activities would also be appropriate for use
at the high school level, perhaps in a psychology
class.
Human Intelligence: Theories and
Development
Twelve units developed by fellows
of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute,
some of which may be appropriate for
use in a high school psychology course.
Getting to Know Yourself: Developing
and Accessing Intrapersonal Intelligence
Among Early Adolescents
One unit from the above site.
Psychological Testing "What's Your IQ?"
A lesson plan for AP psychology in which students examine
different views of IQ testing.
What Is Intelligence? Designing the New IQ
A WebQuest for high school psychology courses examining
different perspectives on the nature of intelligence.
Learning Styles Jigsaw
An activity using the Jigsaw cooperative learning approach
to teach about learning style models and approaches to assessing
learning styles including those of
Gregorc
and
Kolb.
Teaching
Developmental Psychology
Resources for teaching developmental psychology
including lesson plans on language development and moral reasoning.
Pysychology 30 - Module 1: Introduction to Human Development
Lesson plans from Saskatchewan Education's
Psychology Portal.
Prenatal Development
A WebQuest.
Human Development
A high school lesson plan from the DiscoverySchool.com
in which students learn about
the eight stages of human emotional and psychological development
described by psychologist Erik Erikson. See also
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages
for an activity appropriate for high school or college
students.
Classical Conditioning
An experiment and lesson plan for grades 11-12.
Pavlov's Dog
A classical conditioning simulation. Click on
Read More
for information on Ivan Pavlov and his salivating dogs.
Behaviorism
Tutorial
An on-line tutorial in the basics of behaviorism.
Behavioral Learning Theory WebQuest
See also
Cognitive Learning Theory WebQuest
and
Learning and Cognition WebQuest.
Piaget's Cognitive Development: A WebQuest for Human
Grwoth and Development
A two-week, Web-based project appropriate for college-level
or perhaps AP psychology. See also
Piaget WebQuest.
Understanding
Experimentation in Psychology
A WebQuest for an introductory psychology
course. See also
The Science of Psychology WebQuest,
Careers in Psychology WebQuest,
and
Psychology Theories WebQuest.
Project
Me
A self-esteem unit for grades 8-12.
Dynamics
of Relationships
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Rorschach
Inkblot Test
A high school lesson plan in which students express
their creativity in
making their own Rorschach Inkblot Test. See
also
Inkblot Spots
for a similar lesson plan.
Insanity Defense Plea
A unit for 12th grade dealing with the
insanity defense plea. It includes a mock-trial activity.
Three Major Psychological Disorders
A 3-week unit for grade 12 on bipolar
disorder, schizophrenia, and multiple personalities. See
the menu on the right for week-by-week lesson plans.
Schizophrenia and Its Treatment: Movies in
the Classroom
A lesson plan using the film, "A Beautiful
Mind."
Mental Health 1: Human Behavior
A high school lesson plan designed to
introduce students to the study of human behavior and to
develop their ideas about the importance of understanding mental
health. See also the two related lessons:
Mental Health 2
and
Mental Health 3.
Personality Theories
A WebQuest for AP Psychology. See also
Personality WebQuest
for a self-analysis activity.
PsychQuest Personality
Six online lessons from Saskatchewan Education.
The Interpretation of Dreams
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in which
students learn about Freudian theory. See also
Dream World,
Sigmund Freud and His Interpretation of Dreams,
The Talking Cure,
and
Free Association
for other lesson plans about
psychoanalytic theory, and see
Sigmund Freud: An Introduction
for a concise overview of Freudian
theory and the
Freud Page
for a more indepth resource.
The Psychologist
An online activity in which students research
and describe emotional symptoms suffered by John Merrick.
Sigmund Freud and the Freud
Archives
A comprehensive set of links.
See also the
Sigmund Freud Museum.
Striking Out Stress: A "Gallery Walk"
Activity
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from education
World in which students learn about stress and how to cope
with its effects.
Your Emerging Theory/Philosophy of Teaching
Complete this rating scale to find out if your beliefs
about learning are consistent with those of behaviorism,
cognitivism, or humanism.
See also
Explorations in Learning and Instruction: The Theory into
Practice Data Base
for summaries of 50 major theories of learning
and instruction.
Motivation
Three one-hour lessons complete with
a Power-Point presentation and an activity sheet. though
these lessons are designed primarily for business studies, some
aspects could be adapted for a high school or undergraduate psychology
course.
Faculty Psychology
and "Formal Discipline"
A concise overview of this historically important view
of human learning.
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Not really an encyclopedia,
but rather a large, well-indexed
set of links. See also
MegaPsych
for even more links and
Psych Site
for a psychology dictionary as well
as student activities and resources
for instructors.
Archives of the History
of
Psychology
An excellent site for information about the history
of psychology. See also
Classics
in the History of Psychology
(online documents),
Human Intelligence
(people and ideas related to intelligence,
I.Q., and intelligence testing),
and
Resources on the History
of Idiocy
(articles and other resources on
the history of mental retardation).
Web Psychology Lab
An online interactive psychology lab!
Kids Psych
A slick, interactive site for children.
American
Psychological Society - Teaching Resources
A large and well organized
set of links to resources for teaching psychology.
Teachpsych.org
The society for teaching
of psychology. See also
National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.
Funderstanding
Click on "Theories"
and "How People Learn" for info on major learning
theories.
Operant Conditioning
A brief overview.
Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism
- Historical Outline
An overview of the history of behavioral learning theories.
See also
Operant Conditioning in Education.
Behaviorism Tutorial
An on-line tutorial in the basics of behaviorism.
B. F.
Skinner Foundation
A Skinner bibliography as well as information about
Skinner's contributions to psychology.
Jean Piaget Society
Theories of Learning Index
A site devoted to discussions and information on newer
views of intelligence, holistic learning and
teaching including brain-based and holistic learning.
Brain-Based Learning: Practical
Applications
Information on research, the "layered curriculum," and
ideas for applying current research in the
classroom.
Brain/Mind Learning
An overview of 12 basic principles and three interactive
teaching elements. For a somewhat different
set of principles, see
12 design principles based on brain-based
learning research
.
The Whole Brain Atlas
From Harvard Medical School.
Sociology Lesson Plans
and Resources
Social Studies: Sociology
Seven lesson plans from The Educator's Reference
desk. Also
, check out
Sociological
Subject Areas.
If it's related to sociology,
this page has a link to it.
Crime and Punishment
Seven units developed by fellows
of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
covering topics in the theory and practice
of crime and punishment in contemporary
America from the standpoint of politics and
political theory. Four of these units deal with
juvenile justice/offenders and may be appropriate
for a high school sociology course.
Hate Crimes
A WebQuest for 9th-grade sociology.
Introduction to Culture
A high school lesson plan in pdf format
that helps students understand the concept of culture and
understand some of the differences between cultures.
Researching Sociology - A WebQuest
See also
Sociology Internet Activity.
A Sociological Tour through
Cyberspace
Theory, data, methodology,
statistics, and a guide to writing a
sociology research paper.
Sociological Subject Areas
If it's related to sociology,
this page has a link to it.
See also
SocioWeb
and
SocioLog.
Family Sociology Resources
A good set of links for those
doing research or school projects on the
family, family systems, or family violence.
Economic Sociology Editorial
Series
A set of online article.
Anthropology Lesson Plans and Resources
Social Studies: Anthropology
Four lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.
Introduction to Culture
A high school lesson plan in pdf format
that helps students understand the concept of culture and
understand some of the differences between cultures.
Cultural Anthropology
Interdisciplinary lesson plans from EMuseum.
Methods
of Collecting Information
A 3rd-grade lesson plan designed to help students
become aware of anthropology
and the methods used in collecting
information.
Time Capsule
An upper elementary lesson plan designed to help students
understand how to build
a picture of life so that when asked to put
together a time capsule they will
be able to do so and give reasons to support
the chosen items.
Internet Anthropology
A good set of links. See also
WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology.
Archaeology Lesson Plans and
Resources
Decoding the Past:
The Work of Archaeologists
An excellent 3-lesson
unit from the
Smithsonian Institute.
Archaeology
Dig
An elementary lesson plan.
EMuseum's Archaeology Lesson Plans
Nine lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.
Archaeology Lesson Plans
Four intermediate or middle-grade lesson plans from
The Educator's Reference Desk.
Methods of Collecting Information
A 3rd-grade lesson plan using the
book I Can be an
Archaeologist by Robert Pickering.
Learning to Think Like an Archaeologist
A lesson plan for grades 5-8.
You Are the Archaeologist
A WebQuest examining periods of Native American History.
For other archaeology WebQuests, see
Ancient Civilizations WebQuests: Archaeology
and
Archaeology - can You Dig It?
Archeological Research Project
A performance-based assessment designed for a global
studies class.