Problem solving psychology simulations

Also included in: Mystery Activities Bundle | Escape Room | Graphic Organizers | Early Finishers

Back to School Escape Room | Team Building Activities | First Week of School

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Are you ready to kick off the new school year with a thrilling and collaborative experience for your students? Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities will make the first week of school unforgettable as students work together to solve puzzles, decode challenges, and build lasting connections.This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here. Why Choose Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities?Engaging and Interactive: The escape room format adds

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

LifeFluent - Health Education

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Dangers of Drugs & Alcohol Simulation GAME ! High School HEALTH - Peer Pressure

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High school students know that taking drugs and alcohol is risky... but I've created a GOOGLE SLIDES + PDF simulation game to show them realistic consequences for things like underage drinking and prescription drug misuse all the while having FUN learning about it. PLUS I made it super easy for you to set up!Every student will be given a genetics card, personality card, and life experiences card that factor into the consequences for their choices. They must make 9 choices and if they make a risk

Subjects:

Health, Life Skills, Psychology

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Psychology

Also included in: Nutrition Unit + Drugs and Alcohol Unit BUNDLE / High School Health

The Mystery Case- Guide

Created by

Mari M

Description: Step into the thrilling world of crime-solving with "Murder Mystery: The Case of Principal Tiger". This engaging and immersive classroom activity challenges students to become detectives as they unravel the mysterious murder of Tiger Pride High School's beloved Principal Tiger.In this comprehensive murder mystery game, students will work together to examine evidence, question suspects, and ultimately identify the culprit responsible for Principal Tiger's untimely demise. Set against

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Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Peace Path: A Visual Conflict Resolution Strategy

Created by

Always a SPECIAL Day

I have used a Peace Path for the past 8 years of teaching Special Education, and absolutely love it. It is an awesome way to help students work out any issues that arise. I also use it personally with my students if an issue needs to be addressed. It really helps students learn how to work out a problem in a safe way. Just print the pages on card stock, laminate each one, and tape it together. It's very easy to use- two people step on each sides of the path on the footprints and walk through the

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Problem Solving

Grades:

PreK - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

SL.3.1b

Football Escape Room Mystery Challenge | Breakout Game | Teamwork Activity

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular mystery challenge will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through 4 clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game! This football themed mystery works great in the fall during footba

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Anatomy, Biology, Psychology

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Virtual Human Brain Dissection

Created by

My Cool Science Teacher

This is a virtual dissection alternative that allows students to dissect a 3D human brain, record observations, answer analysis questions on the observations and label a sheep's brain with the synonymous human brain structures. The analysis questions are mixed formats between direct questions and critical thinking concluding questions. This activity can be completed completely online or printed out for in-person instruction. It is meant to serve as an alternative method to performing a dissectio

Subjects:

Grades:

9th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

Digging For Fossils - A Cookie Excavation Experiment

Created by

Teaching with Morale

Students will love acting as an archaeologist as they dig for fossils during this experiment! Using simple materials such as toothpicks and cookies, students will learn what it's like to excavate fossils. Students will formulate a hypothesis, collect data, and develop conclusions using this experiment aligned with both Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Teaching tips included! A great resource and hands-on lesson for any fossil unit.

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience

Created by

PBL Learning Lab

Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills. In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to: –Name the Zoo –Create a welcoming sign –Select the animals –Design animal habitats –Create information sheets –Create a budget –And present their work to a "Board of Directors" This experience is designed to be completed without sub

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Science

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Engaging Sociology Simulation! (Activity, worksheets, directions, suggestions)

Created by

Ed Dynamic

I believe this to be the best lesson I have ever created! I hope you enjoy it, too.It includes a slideshow to guide students through the 4 day simulation, 4 worksheets (1:1/Google compatible), a teacher instruction guide, and a printable map of the hypothetical island.The simulation asks students, divided into life rafts, to crash land on an island and attempt to start a society from scratch. Who will govern? What will the rules be? How are they enforced? Who enforces them? How will students res

Subjects:

Government, Psychology, Sociology

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Family Consumer Sciences, Professional Development, Psychology

Also included in: Psychology Full Course Bundle- Everything you need for an engaging year!

Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)

Created by

Ed Dynamic

This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi

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Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Not Your Average Classroom

Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle

Characteristics of Living Things Interactive PowerPoint AND Case Studies

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Fun, animated review of the material as well as TWO case studies exploring the characteristics of life. Students journey to Europa, where they must analyze samples for the presence of life. In the second case study, students discover the tobacco mosaic virus. This extremely fun PowerPoint was created to get kids thinking! No more simple lectures centered around listing the shared characteristics of life - your students will be putting themselves in the shoes of xenobiologists and research bota

Subjects:

Biology, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Simulations

Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These cross curricular mystery challenges will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. This bundle includes over 10 different escape room challenges.Students will work their way through clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect or collect tools to move on to the next challenge. You can use this as an introductio

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

LifeFluent - Health Education

Stereotypes Activity: Who Would You Hire? (Google Slides) Diversity / Inclusion

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Not sure where to start with the topic of prejudice and stereotypes with your upper middle school/high schoolers? This resource has you covered! Students can see some of the biases and prejudices they might hold and reflect on ways they can be open to the people around them, empowering students to combat stereotypes.With this engaging activity/simulation you start by asking students to review 7 candidates looking for a job in your company. The catch is, they start with only the name! In each rou

Subjects:

Health, Life Skills, Psychology

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Also included in: Diversity and Inclusion Bundle: High School Activities + Lessons

Class Escape Problem Solving Game

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer - scissors or paper cutter - white c

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

English Language Arts, Psychology

Herd Behavior: The Game (Google Drive Document)

Created by

Mrs Cantrells Class

This game compliments the idea of "following the crowd" well. Students try to answer the questions with what they think the majority will say. They then reflect on the activity through asking themselves why they made the decisions they did, and then connecting it back to their own lives. It's a fun way to simulate herd mentality and how humans are wired for it!Product includes printable response page, link to an article to read beforehand, pre-playing discussion questions and reflection question

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Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Games, Simulations

Psychology: Meditation and Hypnosis Activity

Created by

The Comfortable Classroom

As students learn about altered states of consciousness, this lesson will allow them to experience what that really feels like. For many students this will be the closest they have ever come to true meditation. You will walk them through a systematic body scan relaxation activity, then read them the guided visualization script. This is a common script I used with my classes and my own kids, but I also vary the script in many ways each time. This resource includes lesson plan with learning target

Subjects:

Health, Psychology, School Counseling

Grades:

10th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Also included in: Psychology: States of Consciousness *UNIT BUNDLE*

Holidays Around the World Escape Room | Math Fact Practice | Zodiac Calendar

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These holiday challenge activities will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 challenges in order to earn each passport stamp while learning about holidays celebrated around the world at the same time!This would be an excellent culminating activity to a Holidays Around the World unit or a stand alone activity to fill t

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Psychology, Social Studies - History

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Psychology Motivation Survey (Need for Achievement, Power, and Intimacy)

Created by

Danis Marandis

This ZIP file (which contains an editable Microsoft Word document as well as a PDF version) is a survey is designed to be used during a motivation and emotion unit in an AP Psychology or Psychology course. Students take a 15 question survey that measures whether they rank low, moderate, or high in their Needs for Achievement, Power, and Intimacy. Questions are based on research behind each of the three needs. Scoring rubric is included. By purchasing this file, you agree not to make it publi

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Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

Stranded: Island survival icebreaker/team-building

Created by

Gov Games and Lessons

Thieving monkeys. Angry ghosts. And there's SOMETHING in the jungle. Can YOU survive the island until help arrives?Many students have played the classic critical thinking game in which they prioritize a list of items to survive on a remote tropical island. But there's two major drawbacks of this original version. First, most of these games reward a clear preference for certain items ("What do you mean you didn't take the compass?"). Second, the game basically ends as soon as the students m

Subjects:

Back to School, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Games, Simulations

Sensation and Perception: Sensory Stations Lab

Created by

Amy Breaux

Take your kids out of the classroom, set up the 7 station activities, then facilitate while they do all the work! In this activity, TLW explain the concepts of threshold and adaptation, describe the visual sensory system, describe the auditory system, describe other sensory systems, such as olfaction, gustation, and somasthesis, and describe the importance of binocular clues. The students LOVE this activity! I have used it as a formal observation and got excellent reviews from my administrator

Subjects:

Other (Social Studies - History), Psychology, Social Studies - History

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Project Based Learning Bundle

Created by

Lisa Taylor Teaching the Stars

PBL Lessons will engage your students as they create simulations of real live event learning tasks. Students will engage and think critically as they go through these projects. Students love learning when it is real, relevant, and engaging!How to Start a School Newscast is a guide to help teachers or administrator start a school newscast. STEM Starting a School Post Office will introduce students to many important economics concepts as they start and run a School Post Office Simulation. Studen

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Projects, Simulations

High Engagement Murder Mystery Classroom Activity! (Murder at the Dance)

Created by

Midnight Lessons with Macey

This "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery game will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" at the homecoming dance. This interactive activity includes all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery game in the classroom!Setting the Scene: During the homecoming dance, the dead bod

Subjects:

Drama, English Language Arts, Problem Solving

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Economics , Environment, Psychology

CCSS:

Also included in: High Engagement Murder Mystery & Whodunit Classroom Activities GROWING BUNDLE!

The Tragedy of the Commons Simulation (Slides, Worksheet, Instructions)

Created by

Ed Dynamic

This engaging and fun game demonstrates very clearly the concept of the "Tragedy of the Commons" in a fun game followed by a quick class slides presentation. The product includes the class slides that walk the class through the simulation, a teacher instructions guide, a student worksheet for following along with the game, and a pdf print-out to create the "slips of paper" used in the simulation.This game is a class favorite that creates a lasting memory of our inclination towards competition ov

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Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education

Types: