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Psychology research for homeschool
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
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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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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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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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
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.
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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
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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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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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
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 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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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
Psychology Activities Sociology Juvenile Justice Research Social Justice
The Juvenile Justice Research Project: Teens Serving Time is the perfect way to teach effective research skills and implement a high-interest research project into your Criminal Justice Course, Psychology, or Sociology classroom! This digital resource also includes research project templates and graphic organizers that can be used with any topic!You'll receive editable research project description sheets with requirements, research forms, source citation handouts, digital note-taking graphic org
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9th - 12th
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Intro to Psych: Myths of Right Brain/Left Brain Theory
Why is the right brain/left brain theory (lateralization) being criticized as psuedo-science by leading psychologists and brain scholars? Students will explore this popularized theory in depth by partaking in a fun survey, experiencing firsthand how split brain patients feel, and analyzing the claims and counterarguments presented by leading brain scientists and psychologists today.
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1) Take a Bell Ringer Survey that tells them supposedly whether they are l
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10th - 12th
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: Willpower & Decision Fatigue Article & Research Activity
The perfect reading and analysis activity on the Executive Functioning! Have your students learn about the concept of Willpower and how Decision Fatigue can affect our choices.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 understandi
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
Recreational Drugs Research Project
In this project students will select, from a provided list, a recreational drug to investigate. Students are then given a detailed list of information to find on their drug, such as: early uses of the drugits effects on the bodylegal issuesusage in societyaddiction treatments Students 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 independently and in my experience the
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9th - 12th
Intro to Psych: Operant Conditioning & Spanking Debate/Research Paper
Should parents use spanking as a discipline tool? After understanding the basics of operant conditioning and researching professional articles on this controversial topic, students will be engaged in a competitive team debate about spanking and also write a mini-research paper that demonstrates their thoughts on this divisive operant conditioning technique.Throughout the lesson students will:1) Respond to a bell ringer that urges them to evaluate the effectiveness of the discipline they received
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Intro to Psych: Evaluating Common Psychological Research Methods
What psychological research method works best? Students will be totally engaged in this lesson that urges them to think about the pros and cons of each type of research method. By analyzing various sources and active participation, students will come to understand research methods common in Psychology like naturalistic observations, laboratory method, survey method, and case studies.
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1) For the Bell Ringer, students will respond to a set of survey questions
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10th - 12th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: DEPRESSION
Depression is a mental illness that has come more and more into the spotlight when talking about school aged students. Where teens used to be seen as naturally moody and temperamental, we now know that depression is serious illness that needs direct, and sometimes medical, interventions. There are a few important things to remember about depression, not the least of which is that it’s quite common and also quite treatable. In this project, students are given a general overview of how inquiry pr
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Psychology Super Bundle: Curriculum Guide, Projects, & Word Wall/Template
Save money with this bundle of curriculum planning guide, six culminating projects, and a vocabulary word wall with a vocabulary learning template. Please click on the individual products for complete previews and descriptions.Curriculum Planning Guide: Thirteen units of study. Aligned to American Association of Psychology National Standards for High School Curricula. Includes essential questions, Marzano Instructional Strategies, and formal and formative assessment ideas. Independent of any te
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Psychological Disorders Project (Unit 8: Clinical)
This ready to go, EDITABLE activity introduces students to the most common disorders as they conduct research about the causes, symptoms, and treatments in order to create a fictional case study of a 'patient' with the disorder. This project can be assigned as an individual or a group activity (or both) and helps students solidify the content as they creatively create a real world example of a patient with their assigned disorder. Students can use the included template or come up with their own
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10th - 12th
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Phobias Haunted Halloween Project for Health & Psychology
What if aliens tried to make a haunted house? This multi-day research activity asks students to use unusual phobias to design a haunted house. This activity includes: an assignment sheet, research worksheet, phobia list, teacher instructions and a phobia key for you. Your students will pretend they are aliens on a cultural exchange to earth who have decided to make a haunted house. One google search later, things are going very wrong! Imagine a room filled with ferns (Pteridophobia) with a w
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Phobia Resource Bundle for Psychology or Health Halloween
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