Psychology trip for weaker students....

Just wondered if anyone out there in this excellent community had any bright ideas for a psychology trip to enthuse and support weaker students.

We get flyers all the time for G&T masterclasses etc from our local universities, but would like to do something for the lower end i.e. those predicted D/E's.

I hear the zoo suggested a lot for animal behaviour but our year 12's do not currently study that. Any ideas welcome!

There are quite a few suggestions on this thread http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/discuss/view/47/  but again many are Zoo related.

I use the zoo trip for observational research methods rather than animal behavious per se. It really brings home concepts such as behavioural categories, coding schemes, time sampling, event sampling, inter-rater reliability etc. The students plan and complete their own structured observation,

Joy

I am currently organising a trip to the Royal Bethlehem hospital. South London. They taylor make trips to include a chat by a psychiatrist, looking at really old case notes and looking at the museum which shows old methods of dealing with mwntal illness.  One colleague said it worked well with Year12. My most successful trip was to the sleep lab at surrey Uni. They talked about sleep problems, showed the students the sleep labs which brings home the methodological issues and then wired up two sleepy students and let them go to sleep while we watched the monitor. We also played on reaction timers as they had a lab set up for cognitive task tests.  I also understand some universities now have excellent facilities in labs and can produce informative trips..