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Research Project Social Media's Impact on Teens - Media Literacy Unit Activity
This high-interest research project focuses on a topic that is relevant to our world today – the effects of having exposure to the Internet at a young age and the impact of social media on today’s modern teens!Research topics include social media and anxiety, how social media facilitates the need to present one’s “false self,” cyberbullying and human trafficking, how social media impacts self-esteem, dangerous TikTok pranks and more!Students will choose and research a social media-related topic
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Juvenile Justice Research Project - School to Prison Pipeline - Prison Reform
The Juvenile Justice Research Project: Teens Serving Time is a perfect way to implement a high-interest research project into your classroom! Students will research real examples of teens serving time, examine the juvenile justice system, prison reform, learn about the school-to-prison pipeline, and the impact incarceration has on a young person's life.Research forms are included that can be used for any research task, including digital note-taking templates, research questions, paraphrasing an
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8th - 11th
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Urban Legends, Viral Photos, Fake News | Contemporary Folktales | Fun Activity
This resource will teach your students how to identify contemporary folktales and urban legends! Teach your students how to evaluate online sources - including viral photos, hoaxes, and fake news!Can your students distinguish between fact and fiction? Build your students’ knowledge and provide them with this myth-busting toolkit! This teaching resource includes relevant, high-interest materials that will teach your secondary students how to evaluate websites and how to determine the credibility
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8th - 12th
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Intro to Psych: Brain Psychology & Phineas Gage
Why was Phineas Gage's incredible injury so important to understanding the brain? When an iron rod blasted completely through Gage's skull in the mid 19th century, you would think he would be a goner. Think again! Gage lived to not only tell his story, but be studied by researchers and psychologists interested in the functioning of his unique brain. With this lesson, students will come to understand the importance of Gage's injury to psychology and our knowledge of the brain.
Students will be p
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10th - 12th
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Psychology Final Project "Who am I?" Two Different Project Options
AP Psychology and regular psychology end of the year project to wrap up all that the students have studied of the course of the year.
This creative project will allow students to take a more in depth look at themselves and how their personal experiences relate to a wide variety of psychological concepts.
There are project two options to look at; one takes a more creative approach to self-analysis, while the second option is a purely written reflection. You can choose one to assign or give both
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9th - 12th
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Technology VS Man, Society VS Technology Research Project
This research project explores the universal theme of humanity vs. technology. Technology is featured in dystopian literature and science fiction, as well as virtually implemented in every aspect of our daily lives. With technology advancing at an unprecedented rate, including the rapid development of artificial intelligence, how will this ultimately impact humanity?Students will research contrasting viewpoints on the benefits of technology vs. the negative consequences or potential harm. A pre
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9th - 12th
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Elementary Multiple Intelligences Survey
If you are interested in finding out your student's learning styles based on Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences then this survey is appropriate for your class. There are 40 questions aligned with each of the multiple intelligences (musical, spatial, logical/mathematical, inter-personal, linguistic, naturalist, intra-personal, and bodily/kinesthetic. Students choose two different colors of crayons, markers, or colored pencils to complete survey. One color will be designated for yes (happy face) r
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K - 5th
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Myers-Briggs Personality Type & Career | High School Research Paper Writing Unit
A synthesis research project. Use this unit to help your students explore one of 16 personality types and synthesize information from multiple sources and guide your students through a research paper. Students must include a (1) description of their Myers-Briggs personality type including its characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, and frequency in the population, (2) ideal career and professional options for the personality type, and (3) well-known individuals with the same personality type fro
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9th - 12th
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Friday the 13th & Other Superstitions: PowerPoint Presentation & Research Task
Friday the ThirteenthStudents love to discuss cultural superstitions, wondering where they came from, what they mean, and debating if there is any validity to them. I originally created this PowerPoint for a fun one-off lesson that I use any time I teach on a Friday the 13th (be it in English or Socials, Psychology, or Art).We go through various superstitions and discover their origins as a class. Students access background knowledge, make predictions, and discuss/debate their ideas. But, ove
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Psychology Mental Disorder Project
This project guides student in the exploration of a psychological disorder. The project lists 24 choices. They design a cover, research a brief description, with treatment. The highlight of the project is when students write a narrative of the disorder like they are actually struggling with the disorder. This helps students to empathize with people who have psychological disorders.
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6th - 12th
Intro to Psych: Interpreting Dreams & Evaluating Dream Theories
What do your dreams actually mean? Are they symbolic for our struggles and unconscious desires or are they more biological in nature? Students will explore dreams in-depth and share their dreams with fellow classmates, analyzing how they fit in with existing theories about dreams.
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1) Respond to a Bell Ringer in which students try to determine the meaning of a bizarre dream.
2) Watch a brief video clip about the biological and psychological components of dre
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10th - 12th
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Intro to Psych: Observational Learning & Violent Media Mini Research Paper
Does violent video games and movies cause violent children and teens? Since Bandura's famous Bobo Doll Experiment and the advent of television viewership, parents and society as a whole have been concerned about violent media and the effects it has on young minds. In this three day lesson, students will analyze a multitude of sources on this divisive topic and decide for themselves whether society should be concerned about violence in mass media.
Throughout the lesson students will:
1) Respon
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10th - 12th
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Human Brain PowerPoints and Activities BUNDLE
HUGE HUMAN BRAIN BUNDLE!!This bundle includes PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, varied activities, a WebQuest and an assessment/project to assess your classes understanding of the brain. These resources focus on different areas of the brain including the lobes, association areas, general parts of the brain, nervous system, brain injury, brain plasticity, brain disorders and diseases as well as resources about the curious case of Phineas Gage!POWERPOINTS:- Brain Injury/Brain Plasticity/Phinea
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mental Health Disorders Project (Psychology or Anatomy and Physiology)
This project can be used as part of a Psychology Unit and also has strong tie-ins with material covered in a Brain and Nervous System Unit. In the project students will select, from a provided list, a mental health disorder to study. Students are then given a detailed list of information to find on their disorder and are asked to present their findings using words and diagrams in either a poster or digital format. An easy to use teacher marking scale/rubric is provided. Students will work indep
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9th - 12th
Intro to Psych: Nature v. Nurture Online Avatar Project
What are the competing arguments in the Nature v. Nurture debate? Nature or Nurture has always been a fundamental question in the study of psychology and continues to be heavily researched by experimenters and psychologists today. By way of an online scavenger hunt and online avatar creating site, students will demonstrate their profound knowledge of this essential debate in psychology.Students will do the following during this lesson:1) Respond to a Bell Ringer that ask them to consider whether
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10th - 12th
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Psychology Research Methods Project & Rubric
In order to apply their learning of psychological research methods to the world around them, students will form their own questions and conduct their own research to answer them. Students will create a presentation of their research and findings and share it with the class. Included:Individual instructions and research guide Group instructions and research guide Presentation rubric specific to this project2022 APA National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula:Scientific Inquiry and Res
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Science of Psychology - Introduction to Psychology Activity Bundle
Self-Directed Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan for High School Psychology
Are you looking for project based learning lesson plans for high school psychology that are engaging, fun, and lead to deep and meaningful learning experiences for all? This self-directed project based learning experience is all of that and then some.Each student will choose one psychologist, either historical or present-day, and design and lead their own project-based learning experience around that psychologist. They will work within the community, complete an authentic final product of their
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Mid-Level Experience High School Project-Based Learning Bundle
Psychology Adolescent Development Guide/Pamphlet Project
Every year in my Psychology class, I assign students to create a guide for other teens and/or their parents. Most of the time these guides are aimed at younger students and most of the time my students choose a topic for their guide where they have had real-life experience.
This project is always one of the favorites because students really like to help other people who could be struggling with some of the same issues they had in their adolescence.
This project has a list of topics students coul
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9th - 12th
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: Understanding Procrastination Article & Research Activity
The perfect reading and analysis activity on the Executive Functioning! Have your students learn about Procrastination and how it affects our lives.High school students need executive functioning skills for all kinds of school and personal tasks, such as prioritizing responsibilities and using time effectively, studying and completing assignments, following through on commitments, and making healthy choices. With this package (and series), students gain an understanding of what executive functio
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
Sleep Disorder Webquest
If you are looking for a no-prep (or sub) student-led activity, look no further! Students will work through an individual webquest on 6 "common" sleep disorders.The sleep disorders are: -Insomnia-Narcolepsy-Sleep Apnea-Night Terrors-Sleep walking-Restless Leg SyndromeAll links are included (Mayo Clinic) and questions are in order.
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10th - 12th
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Intro to Psych: Creating An Online Day Care Center Project
How do you create a developmentally appropriate day care center? Using both Piaget's & Erikson's stages of Cognitive and Psychosocial Development, students will have a blast creating a professional looking online day care center in this project!Throughout the lesson students will:1) Respond to a Bell Ringer that asks students to analyze a video clip of a boy who was raised in a chicken pen and determine what stages of development he has successfully gone through.2) Participate in a photo gal
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10th - 12th
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Psychology Class: Project Outline BUNDLE
Psychology Class: Project OutlinesPresentationsResearch OutlinesGreat Supplement for any Psychology Class!
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Phobia Research Project
Inspired by reading an informational piece about glossophobia (fear of public speaking). Students would each choose a different phobia, conduct research, make a project, and present it to the class.
The two years I've done it, I did two variations. To shorten the time it took, I only gave students an option to do a poster. Then when it was due, they did a gallery walk of all the posters instead of individual presentations that took 2-3 days. Also, the longer project included an interview port
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6th - 9th
Psychology The Trolley Problem Moral Philosophy Ethics
We were talking about Kohlberg and morality and one of my students asked me about "trolley" problems. That was my inspiration! If you are not aware of "trolley problems" they go something like this... "A trolley has lost its brakes and is headed down a track and will kill 5 people. You can flip the switch and only one person will be killed. What do you do?" Of course, there are a million variations of these kinds of problems too. While not strictly psychology I think these problems are interesti
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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