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Psychology lessons under $5
TED Talk Mental Health and Wellness Bundle | 8 Lessons
This Mental Health Ted Talk lesson bundle is designed to help educators teach students about mental health and wellness. The bundle includes detailed student handouts and various activities for students. The lessons included in this resource cover important topics such as stress management, coping strategies, and reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness. This resource features TED Talks by mental health experts, providing students with real-life examples and insights into mental health. Th
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Psychology Store Growing Bundle
Psychology or Sociology - "Nature vs. Nurture" - Heredity & Genetics Activity
What does "Nature vs. Nurture" really mean? Lots of students need help with this concept. This simple activity helps clarify the meaning of the terms, provides lots of concrete examples, requires students to contemplate and work with those examples, and helps them understand the true answer to the age-old debate question... that in most cases, the reality is a complex interplay between both factors. It's great for sparking interesting discussions, and works well as part of a unit on personali
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Are you Right-brained or Left-Brained?
Make learning about the brain more fun and more personal! This is a great student-centered activity for any class learning about the human brain. It consists of an easy and effective questionnaire that determines your brain-side preference plus a worksheet designed to encourage reflection and reinforce understanding.
I've been using this activity with my own classes for many years and it always gets enthusiastic engagement from the students.
Works best as part of a unit on the brain, in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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The Danger of a Single Story Ted Talk Discussion and Reflection Worksheet
In this Ted Talk presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the novelist warns students of “The Danger of a Single Story.” While completing this reflection worksheet, high school students realize the problems with single stories which lead to incomplete stereotypes of people of different cultures. This activity prompts lively and poignant class discussion among your students. Great for secondary ELA or Social Studies. Makes a great sub plan.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity BONUS: "CELEBR
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9th - 12th
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Inkblots! Mini-Rorschach Test Lesson w/ PowerPoint
Inkblots! This is an excellent package for a fun and fascinating activity for any students of psychology or health. It includes everything you need for an engaging and enlightening 2-to-3-class-period lesson structured around 4 of Hermann Rorschach's original therapeutic inkblots. It's a new-and-improved version of a lesson I've been using for years, and the kids always love it. I even use a shortened version of it on Parent's Night, and it's always a hit.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Psychology - Fun Activity - Optical Illusions!
Optical illusions are a great way for psychology students to learn about perception! This activity really does make serious learning fun. It will keep ‘em busy and fascinated for a full class period or longer, depending on the level of the students and how much you do with it. If you like, you can just sit back and let the self-contained 8-page packet of interactive and informational mini-activities engage them on its own. Or, you can lead them through it, discussing each section as a group.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Freud's 3-Part Psyche - Id, Ego & Superego
What is your id telling you? How about your superego? How does your ego manage these conflicting forces? Make these abstract concepts real and vivid for your students with a 3-Part Psyche Activity based on Sigmund Freud's famous theory of the id, ego & superego. This package has everything you need for an engaging and fascinating 2 or 3-day lesson on one of the foundational principles of the psychoanalytic approach. It is both teacher-led and student-centered, and it really grabs the kid
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10th - 12th
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Psychology: Classical Conditioning in Advertising Gallery Walk Lesson/Activity
Have you or your students ever fallen victim to classical conditioning embedded in advertising? This engaging lesson and activity will reveal how it happens all the time. This lesson focuses on engaging students by first teaching the concept through relatable examples. After completing a mini-lesson using a short Nike YouTube commercial video lesson that teaches the concept, students practice the concept by finding and sharing examples of their own. The final activity has students complete gall
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Abnormal Psychology Personality Disorders Jigsaw and Discussion
This abnormal psychology lesson covers different Cluster B personality disorders such as anti-social, narcissistic, and borderline. Students will discover how psychologists sort and categorize disorders based on similarities and differences. They will read, compare and contrast, synthesize, then come to conclusions and support their conclusions in writing. This lesson makes it easy for you to engage students in supplemental activities that go beyond the textbook or PowerPoint notes. Each lesson
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Abnormal Psychology *UNIT BUNDLE*
Multiple Intelligences Learning Profile Project
Are you looking for a creative getting to know you project that will help you get to know your students as people AND as learners? Try this Multiple Intelligences Learning Profile Project! Students will learn all about Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and create an individual learning profile worksheet to share with you and their peers. This project is an excellent icebreaker, but can be used for back to school, at the start of a new unit or semester, the day after New Year's br
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7th - 10th
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Social Psychology: Obedience to Authority (Milgram and More)
Why do good people do bad things? This Social Psychology lesson takes a twist on the classic study of obedience by Milgram. Students begin with a questionnaire and four corners activity to debate how they would act in a given situation. Small groups will read various real-world scenarios of obedience to authority and try to conclude what the causes people to obey. Finally, they will doodle their way through a Crash Course video and a Common Lit article about the classic Milgram experiment. This
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Social Psychology *UNIT BUNDLE*
Stanford Prison Experiment: Case Study in Ethics - Engaging Analysis Lesson
Nothing captures students attention more in Psychology or Sociology than the infamous and controversial 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. However, the recent uncovering of primary source recordings found Zimbardo's team coaching the prison guards to ramp up abusive behavior. This has further delegitimized many of the original conclusions on human behavior found in this already controversial experiment. Should we stop teaching this largely debunked study? Not so fast. What we are left with is the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Social Psychology: Bystander Effect (Universe of Obligation, Upstanders)
Whose responsibility is it? This social psychology lesson begins with an article & card sort activity on the Universe of Obligation. Then, students read about bystanders in the historic Kitty Genovese case, and begin to discuss diffusion of responsibility. Finally, students will watch a video and synthesize resources about bystanders, upstanders, and bullying. This lesson makes it easy for you to engage students in supplemental activities that go beyond the textbook or PowerPoint notes. Each
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Social Psychology *UNIT BUNDLE*
Intro to Psych: Understanding Phobias Through Classical Conditioning
How do phobias develop? With approximately 5% of Americans currently suffering from diagnosable phobias, irrational, debilitating fears are more common than we think. Psychologists have been trying to get to the root of phobias and what has been discovered is that classical conditioning plays a vital role in the development of fear. In this lesson students will learn to connect their understanding of phobias to the important process of classical conditioning.
Throughout the lesson students will
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Unconscious Defense Mechanisms - Freud
The study of defense mechanisms is a great way to introduce your students to the world of the Unconscious and its influence upon our behaviors. Since we all do them sometimes--and we all know someone who does them almost all the time--it’s something everyone can relate to. Students are often pleasantly surprised to learn that there’s a name for these behaviors that they have observed in other people (and in themselves).
This introspective student-centered activity is simple but very engagin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Seven Modern Perspectives of Psychology Case Study - Google Doc Activity
After spending a few years boring students with lecture notes on the 7 modern perspectives, I designed this activity that was specifically designed to introduce students to the 7 modern perspectives of Psychology in an engaging and efficient manner. This Google Doc analysis activity/lesson uses a 7-minute PSYCHademia video along with a provided graphic organizer to have students explain glossophobia (fear of public speaking) through the lens of each modern perspective. From there, students compl
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity for Perception - If a tree falls in the forest...?
Blow your students' minds with this fascinating lesson that walks them through the facts of psychology to arrive at the astonishing answer to the ancient riddle-question: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? This one-period activity is great for kick-starting an energetic discussion about the nature of reality and our perceptions of it. Students are fascinated to learn that the world outside of our senses is not quite the same as the world
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime TED Talk Lesson
This comprehensive TED Talk lesson delves into the important topic of how childhood trauma can impact health throughout a person's lifetime. The lesson is based on Nadine Burke Harris' TED Talk "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime" and includes several interactive components to enhance learning.The first part of the lesson includes thought-provoking questions related to Dr. Harris' TED Talk, designed to encourage discussion and reflection. The second component is an online acti
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Forensic Files : Prints Among Thieves (science video worksheet / fingerprints)
FORENSIC FILES VIDEO WORKSHEETGRADES: 9-12SUBJECTS: SCIENCE, FORENSICS, LAW, HISTORYSUB/EMERGENCY PLANS: YES!DISTANCE LEARNING: YES!MORE FORENSIC FILES! – CLICK HERE!*Video is necessary for completion of this worksheet.*Please be sure you have access to the video before making your purchase.*Please watch the video in advance of your students to gauge appropriateness.FORENSIC FILES / MEDICAL DETECTIVES: As of April 2022, the entire episode is available free on You Tube which could make it ideal f
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9th - 12th
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Psychology America's Most Notorious Serial Killers
This Power Point serves as an introduction to my Psychology lesson on Anti-Social Personality Disorder. The slide presentation begins with a brief look at the 20 most notorious serial killers in American History: Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, "Son of Sam," Ed Gein, John Allen Muhammad, Derrick Todd Lee, Angel Maturino Resendiz, Herman Webster Mudgett, Belle Gunness, Albert Fish, Richard Angelo, Dean Corll, Richard Ramirez, Coral Eugene Watts, “Boston Strangler,” John
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Developmental Psychology Erik Erikson Activities
Developmental Psychology
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development is an incredibly engaging topic in any AP or regular psychology class. Over the years I have done a variety of activities to help the students better understand the various stages depending upon how much time I have during the unit. I have put all of my activities together in this file for you to use.
Activity #1: Group activity where the students are placed in small groups and assigned a specific stage of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Info Reading Text - Crime and Psychology: 8 Notorious Serial Killers in History
Click here for "Author's Purpose" additional activityThis is an informational reading article about 8 of history's most notorious serial killers. Includes information on Harold Shipman, Belle Gunness, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, and H.H. Holmes. To make this assignment even more engaging, download my assignment "Author's Purpose". https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Authors-Purpose-Reading-Supplemental-Activ
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Crime and Forensics: Serial Killer Bundle
Stereotypes Activity: Who Would You Hire? (Google Slides) Diversity / Inclusion
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
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Diversity and Inclusion Bundle: High School Activities + Lessons
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