Psychology Lesson Plans and
Resources
High School Psychology Syllabus Resource and Lesson Plans
Thirty chapters complete with lesson plans for each chapter. It
appears to be en entire course.
Welle's Wacky World of Psychology
Twelve lesson plans.
Free
Unit Lesson Plans for High School Teachers of Psychology
Unit lesson plans and teaching modules form the APA.
Society for the
Teaching of Psychology - Teaching Resources
Many resources and instructional materials for a broad range of topics.
TOPSS
- Unit Lesson Plans
Units for high school on the topics of Obesity and Memory. Other
units are available only to
Teaching of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) members.
The Psychology Teachers Resource Guide
A pdf booklet with 50 lesson plans!
Psychology Lesson plans
Many lesson plans from Short Cuts TV.
Teaching
about Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Retardation: Ideas for
Classroom Activities
Two activities, complete with
handouts, that I use in my Exceptional
Learners class to teach
college students (mostly first and
second-year)
about intellectual disabilities/mental retardation. I believe the
activities would also be appropriate for a high school psychology
class.
Human Intelligence: Theories and
Developmental Origins
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.
Developmental Psychology
Teaching Resources
Resources for teaching developmental psychology
including lesson plans on language development and moral reasoning.
Prenatal Development
Two lesson plans for a family studies course. See also
Building a Baby for a lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Developmental
Psychology Teaching Resources
From DevelopmentalPsychology.org.
Human Development
A high school lesson plan from the Discovery Education
in which students learn about the eight stages of human emotional and psychological development
described by psychologist Erik Erikson.
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages
An activity I use in my Human Development class. It is appropriate for high school or college
students.
Memory
A five-day unit for high school psychology.
Classical Conditioning Lesson Plan
See also
Pavlov's Dogs
for information and a video clip. See also
Classical vs. Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
a 2-day lesson plan. See also
Chapter 7: Behavioral Learning Theory: Operant Conditioning.
Skinner's Operant Conditioning
A lesson plan for a high school or college class.
History of Behaviorism
Tutorial
From Sophia.org.
Discovering and Uncovering
Piaget
A WebQuest.
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development: Discussion Activity
An activity I used in my Human Development class.
Ethics and Psycholological Research
A high school lesson plan.
The Human Animal
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 in which students learn about body language, facial
expressions, and gestures.
Mental Illness
A high school lesson plan from Study.com.
Psychological Disorders
An elaborate unit plan for high school psychology from the APA.
Walk in Our Shoes
An eight-lesson unit on mental illness complete with quizzes.
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 WebQuest
For AP Psychology.
Freudian Jigsaw
Cooperative Learning Activity
An activity I used in my Human Development class.
The Interpretation of Dreams
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in which
students learn about Freudian theory. See also
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
and
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for other lesson plans about
psychoanalytic theory, and see
Sigmund Freud - Life and Work,
Sigmund Freud Museum, and
The
Freud Page for more information on Freud.
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.
Motivation
Application Activity
An activity I use in my Educational Psychology class. See the Accompanying
document, Motivation: The Four Factors.
Motivation
A "Sample Lesson Plan" for high school students from Connect
with Kids Network. See also
Motivation Lesson Plan.
Humanistic Psychology
A lesson plan designed to help teachers prepare a one-hour
lesson on humanistic psychology.
Biopsychology
A lesson plan on neural transmitters perhaps suitable for AP
psychology.
Faculty
Psychology and Mental Discipline
A concise overview of this historically important view
of human learning.
APA Dictionary of Psychology
Definitions of psychology terms. See also
Glossary of Psychological Terms.
Center for
the History
of
Psychology
An excellent site for information about the history
of psychology. See also
Classics
in the History of Psychology
(online documents) and
Human Intelligence
(people and ideas related to intelligence,
I.Q., and intelligence testing).
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.
B. F.
Skinner Foundation
A Skinner bibliography as well as information about
Skinner's contributions to psychology.
Jean Piaget Society
The Whole Brain Atlas
From Harvard Medical School. See also.
Sociology Lesson Plans
and Resources
SocioWeb
Resources and links. See also
SocioLog.
Introsocsite: Introduction to Sociology
Units and lesson plans. See also
Resources for Sociology Teachers
which include
Exercises and Resources by Unit.
Teaching High School Sociology
A blog with teaching ideas "written from a teacher's
perspective."
GCSE
Sociology
"Sample lesson plans for Unit 1."
What
Is Culture?
A lesson plan from Mr. Donn.
Culture, What You See and What You Don't
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from PBS.
Culture Race and Ethnicity
A lesson plan from the Government of Australia for their
Harmony Day.
What is
Culture? And How Do We Study It?
Definitions and information from
Culture Quest. See also
Explorations for Students.
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.
An Invitation to Sociology
Lesson plans by chapter.
A Sociological Tour through
Cyberspace
Theory, data, methodology,
statistics, and a guide to writing a
sociology research paper.
Anthropology Lesson Plans and Resources
Anthropology - Teaching Activities
More than 20 lesson plans from Smithsonian Education.
Anthropology Online Lesson Plans
Twenty-four lesson plans from the Illinois State Museum.
Discover Anthropology
Teaching resources from the UK including lesson plans.
Cultural Anthropology
A "Course Guide" from Middlesex Community College in MA.
Anthropology/Archaeology Classroom Activities
Many activities from PBS NOVA Teachers.
What is
Culture? And How Do We Study It?
Definitions and information from
Culture Quest. See also
Explorations for Students.
Common Visions, Common Voices
A high school lesson plan from
EDSITEment.
Discover Anthropology Glossary
Archaeology Lesson Plans and
Resources
Society for American Archaeology - Education & Outreach
Many lesson plans for a variety of grade levels
AIA Lesson Plans
Fifteen lesson plans from the
Archaeological Institute of America. See also
Lesson
Plans: Simulated Digs.
Archaeology Channel
Another site with a great many lesson plans.
Anthropology/Archaeology Classroom Activities
Many activities from PBS NOVA Teachers.
Decoding the Past:
The Work of Archaeologists
An excellent 3-lesson
unit from the Smithsonian Institute.
Try the warmup exercise before downloading the lessons.
Archaeology in the Classroom
Classroom activities for grade 6, also from the Smithsonian. See also
Introduction to Archaeology and Art Artifacts,
Random Strategies in Archaeology, and
Relative Dating in Archaeology.
Dig It!: Discovering Archaeology
A "resource packet" for teachers from Brown University.
Archaeology
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from
Discovery Education.
Learn to Think Like an Archaeologist
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Archaeology WebQuestSee also
Ancient History Web Search.
Archeological Research Project
A performance-based assessment designed for a global
studies class.