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Tom H had this idea:
Cognitive psychology activities and videos - www.gocognitive.net Brilliant website for teaching cognitive psychology with videos and demos (interactive flash programs). Just used the monsters...		 12/03/10
Nikki Espiner had this idea:
My idea is ... to get students to come up with a advertising campaign for key studies (some for the study, some against) it gets students excited & lets them research deeper into the study so they...		 4/03/10
janet forbes had this idea:
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/split-brain/index.html This link takes you to educational games in the Nobel Prize page, which features John Sperry. Very good when you are in the...		 2/03/10
Vicki Wilken had this idea:
I like the walkabout talkabout idea. I often ask the learners to recall something we have recently learnt. I get them to write it all down onto the active learning wheel (a colleague gave me this). I...		 28/02/10
Vicki Wilken had this idea:
We sometimes make paper choice tellers. Remember at school making these? Someone would choose a colour and a number then a triangular flap would be opened to reveal a statement like "you are going to...		 28/02/10
laila dilley had this idea:
My idea is...to start the Eating Behaviour topic with a food tasting session. All students bring in one food they like and one they dislike. The whole class tries these and rates them and you then...		 23/02/10
Karen Wrighton had this idea:
My idea is ... for stress a nice starter for a stress management lesson is using Maltesers. Get the students to relax and pop a Malteser into their mouths - but they must not chew it, just let it...		 21/02/10
Anna had this idea:
For Freud's defence mechanisms I gave the class a story of Amy Winehouse and her "issues." They had to find the defence mechanisms and then make one up themselves on a different celebrity. I lost the...		 19/02/10
Anna had this idea:
Something I tried with Year 13 when tackling Section A of G544...give a pair of students a piece of sugar paper with a research question in the middle. I used current research that had been in the...		 19/02/10
Jenny Turner had this idea:
My idea is ... to remember the correlation between stress and illness from Rahe et al, we show a clip of the cartoony advert fro the telephone directory - a guy sits on a little cloud, singing 118...		 17/02/10
E Roney had this idea:
Have a look at the following website http://classtools.net/ It's got loads of ideas and templates for revision / summaries and so on....		 11/02/10
Alison Wilson had this idea:
Dowload a programme called Tarsia - I believe that it is a maths progaramme. It allows you to make a matching exercise by inputting sentences in 2 halves. The beauty of it is that it is self-checking...		 2/02/10
Linda Mortimer had this idea:
My idea is ask students to write a list of questions that they want answered about a particular topic eg cognitive approach or memory etc. Write their questions on the board and then select the most...		 30/01/10
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Past papers: http://www.xtremepapers.net...		 24/01/10
Wendy Jones had this idea:
Definitions of abnormality - formative assessmnet. Use the website http://goanimate.com. Ask your students to design an animation comparing and outlining the limitations of the 3 definitions of...		 24/01/10
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My idea is ...to use the 'experience in close relationships scale here: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~wei/manuscript/ECR-S.pdf in the 'impact of childhood on later relationships' lesson to get...		 20/01/10
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My idea is ...to show a clip of Little Britain's Fat Fighters for anything on eating behaviour. Cravings is a good one (not John Cravens...)...		 19/01/10
Nikki Espiner had this idea:
My idea is ... if anyone is teaching addiction there has been a programme on called 'my big fat diet show' which has been having case studies on every programme with a person with a food/drink...		 14/01/10
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My idea is ... to record 3 minutes of "auditory hallucinations" i.e. a student reading a script along the lines of "don't listen to him, he lies, don't listen. You're a stupid jack ass etc". Then...		 12/01/10
Shanie had this idea:
Create a class set of laminated Psychologists names, each glued onto a lollypop stick and a list of the names for your own use. Get each student to randomly take a name at the start of the lesson,...		 9/01/10
Melanie had this idea:
My idea is ... use a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory to illustrate operant conditioning. Series 3, episode 6 - The Gothowitz Deviation has Sheldon giving Penny chocolate every time she...		 9/01/10
Emma had this idea:
My idea is ...to use the documentary by BBC horizon 'How mad are you?' to look at the validity and reliability of diagnosese for PYSA4...		 7/01/10
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...if teaching Harlow, use links selected here for images and videos: http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2010/01/video-clips-on-harlows-monkeys.html...		 5/01/10
Karen Holyoak had this idea:
My idea is ...My students love playdough. We use it to reinforce keywords (they have to make a model and the rest of the group have to guess what it is). I've also used it when evaluating a theory. ...		 4/01/10
jude bumby had this idea:
My idea is ...combine stress, Hardy personality, test-retest reliability, validity, correlation, scattergrams. Get students to do Hardy Personality Test p131 Cardwell and Flanagan on 2 separate...		 1/01/10
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...introduce fiction books/ films such as twilight & 'the girl who...'Lisbeth Salander trilogoy by Steig Larson to illustrate various ideas such as genetic predisposition &...		 30/12/09
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...a variation in the ships/shore game for inferential statisitics. Make A4 signs with chi sq, mann-whitney etc & position at different corners of the room. Read a list of criteria eg. I...		 30/12/09
denise fitzpatrick had this idea:
My idea is ... to use the tragic Akmal Sheikh case as a topical introduction to the topic of abnormality. This man was executed in China this week and was believed to be suffering from bipolar...		 30/12/09
RMiners had this idea:
I've just got my yr 13 OCR health and clinical class to carry out some project work for the 4th section on disorders. Students only need to learn explanations and treatments for 1 disorder, so rather...		 29/12/09
Wendy Jones had this idea:
My idea is ... Can your students make the dog drool on demand? A great exercise to use as a whole class or cut and paste the URL on to your VLE. Enjoy. ...		 24/12/09
shahnila had this idea:
My idea is ...It is better to change the thinking of the persons than to change the system, the system will change automatically...		 22/12/09
shahnila had this idea:
My idea is ...There is no compensation to the smallest disturbance in mind, except for the ones who are satisfied internally by themselves...		 22/12/09
Mark Souter had this idea:
My idea is ... To combine OCR Crime and Methods use this site: uses the OJ Simpson Trail ad an analogy for the application of research concepts (Type I/Type II; evidence as effect Size; Reasonable...		 17/12/09
Coleen Norman had this idea:
I am sure that this has probably been done before by many psyc teachers but it worked well for me.  In teaching EWT I prearranged a member of staff to enter the classroom during the lesson and...		 16/12/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
To illustrate paternity uncertainty and 'grandfather uncertainty' (and subsequent reduction in investment).  Silly idea which I may try depending on my mood....  4 students line up with...		 16/12/09
Iona had this idea:
My idea is ... for students to be taken on people watching trips to analyse mothers and children in correspondance to the attachment theories :)...		 16/12/09
Sarah had this idea:
I have just discovered Ruby Wax's Headroom series. Did you know she studied Psychology? The series is an online mental health programme where she discusses various mental disorders with real-life...		 14/12/09
Mrs J Wortley had this idea:
My idea is ...for students to devise a play to perform to the class, using dolls from charity chops. they have to act out the implications of maternal deprivation, e.g. foster care, romanian orphans...		 14/12/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
Give students a problem from The Guardian Evolutionary Agony Aunt to solve using evolutionary psychology & then give them her solution. Did this today with PSYA3 (AQA A) relationships section...		 10/12/09
Liz Ridley had this idea:
My idea has a Christmas theme which is a good revision tool that can be implemented across all areas and years. I am buying paper chains, writing the name of the study on one strip and the...		 9/12/09
Kim Rouvelin had this idea:
The Movie K-Pax with Kevin Spacey is a good one to introduce topics of mental illness, longterm treatment, what is "normal" behaviour, and hypnosis. My students watched the movie last week (before a...		 6/12/09
Helen had this idea:
I'm currently teaching Clive Wearing's grandaughter. Clive's wife is happy to answer questions you or your students may have. Please email me your questions by next Wednesday (9 Dec 09). (Please can...		 4/12/09
lauren binnington had this idea:
When teaching jury decision making i get students to act out being a jury using the study by Pennington and Hastie. I set up a video camera, give them the same story as the original participants and...		 4/12/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
To use scales with costs/rewards to get students to apply economic models of relationship maintenance. They can come up with a 'scoring scheme' for rewards/costs (decide which are which) using some...		 24/11/09
Helen had this idea:
To intorduce the history of treatments of disorders. Show students the slide show from Christopher Payne's Asylum book. There's some fantastic...		 22/11/09
Richard Hood had this idea:
Doing sports psych? Check out this website for a ready made teaching/learning presentation on self efficacy:http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html (hit the 1st link explaining what self...		 19/11/09
elizabeth ward had this idea:
Mindmapping schizophrenia at the end of the topic. I tried this today to create an overview of the different explanations and treatments for schizophrenia and the students found it very helpful. They...		 19/11/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is to get students to explain theories to their gran. Specifically, to get them to explain theories (or models) in non-specialist language, and then tell me where they can replace the 'every...		 19/11/09
kate hampshire had this idea:
I've just done a mock court case of Milgram in the Dock. The students loved it and now know both sides of the debate inside out. They nominate someone to be Milgram and then get themselves into...		 19/11/09
Karren Smith had this idea:
My idea is ... today I got students to draw different people in different occupations: nurse, doctor, carer, judge, racing car driver, gambler etc. They all knew what I was up to, but I asked them to...		 18/11/09
terri collier had this idea:
My idea is ... check out this website for the templates for lots of tv show games.. millionnaire, blockbusters etc.. great fun as a way to test kids...		 18/11/09
terri collier had this idea:
My idea is ... look up random name generator on google.. it is a fab tool for plenaries etc.. looks like a fruit machine and you can paste a class list into it from a...		 18/11/09
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...get the students to make a snakes & ladders board. At the bottom of each ladder is evidence or positive commentary, at the top of each snake is a weakness or opposing findings from a...		 17/11/09
Daisy had this idea:
My idea is ... to watch some of the programme 'freaky eaters' when talking about food neophobia for the eating behaviours topic - it shows this to the extreme and some of the programmes include...		 16/11/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to buy a 'guess who' set & alter images so they're slightly different on either side. This game could be used to illustrate why 'matched pairs' is such an impossible design to use. ...		 15/11/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
I am not sure whether I am the last one to find out about this website ... but just in case It is packed with ideas for various activities pleanry, revision, whiteboard worth having a...		 14/11/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to use the Guardian "100 years of press photography" e.g. relative deprivation from this photo:...		 14/11/09
Thomas Humphreys had this idea:
you tube type in maury phobias, shows phobias of peaches, pickles and cotton wool....		 13/11/09
Thomas Humphreys had this idea:
My idea is ...you tube type in maury phobias - this shows fear of peaches, pickles, cotton wool....		 13/11/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to use delicious to tag articles/blogs/podcasts I read/see with key words so I have a store of relevant material 'out there' e.g. http://delicious.com/simonknight...		 12/11/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...please feel free to access all my old AQA worksheets, handout, revision stuff at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/afta4/files this was all from the old AQA syllabus; some may still be...		 11/11/09
barie smith had this idea:
My idea is ... Another acronym - can use this one to evaluate studies on PY2. Molly Practices Dancing Everyday Method used, Participants, Data collection, Ethics. Comment on each of these in...		 11/11/09
barie smith had this idea:
My idea is ... Not an idea so much as an acronym. Works for compare and contrast on PY1. Lists all the features students need to compare any two approaches. All The Time Spent Revising Does...		 11/11/09
barie smith had this idea:
My idea is ... This works for teaching. revising compare and contrast on WJEC PY1 - may be adaptable for other boards. Write numbers on one set of cards each number represents an approach. Write...		 11/11/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
There is a collection of videos by Zimbardo on a very extensive range of topics at http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html?pop=yes&pid=1523# One in particular about culture which can be...		 6/11/09
Darowska had this idea:
pupils teach each other theories of why people stay or leave relatioships (social exchange theory, investment theory etc). Break the group into 4 smaller groups &assign each a topic. Most...		 6/11/09
Wendy Jones had this idea:
PSYA1 Memory:This year I have decided that my students are going to make their own multistore and working memory model out of boxes, coat hangers and string. The best models win prizes! I'll let you...		 5/11/09
Karen Morton had this idea:
I haven't tried this yet, but will do in the coming weeks. Give it a go yourself. How to use A level students as ‘hemispheres of the brain’. A short explanation of how information...		 28/10/09
jackie moody had this idea:
this is a great website for all things genetic, includes lesson plans and resources http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu              ...		 24/10/09
Colin Murphy had this idea:
My idea is to convert powerpoints into photos you can do this on powerpoint in mac and on keynote and giving them to my students to put on their iphones or ipods....		 22/10/09
Colin Murphy had this idea:
My idea is get the students to do a storyboard for the loftus studies. This helps them to avoid making the horrible mistake of blending the studies together. The results are usually quite brilliant....		 21/10/09
hmh had this idea:
Forensic Psychology - interrogation of suspects. An interesting website to visit for a fun, if not bizarre, interactive course in interrogation techniques is www.zapdramatic.com  (select...		 20/10/09
Peter Gouge had this idea:
Psychology horse racing! Use anything from 2 to 6 horses, representing individuals or small groups of pupils. While pupils design their horse and jockey outfit on post-it notes, design a track on...		 19/10/09
Kim Rouvelin had this idea:
itunes  free podcast calle thepsychfiles.com I have used episode 72 to help my students memorize parts of the brain and I downloaded flash cards and notes to help too Some others are good...		 18/10/09
Emma Langdon had this idea:
Sperry - Split Brain Experiments http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/split-brain/splitbrainexp.html Don't know if anyone has come across this link but it is a really interesting link...		 17/10/09
Simon Knight had this idea:
My idea is ...to ask students to write down as many children's cartoon characters as they can think of, and then look at the occupations they have as a transition between gender schema and the...		 15/10/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
randomiser! an idea to keep the students on their toes..http://classtools.net/main_area/template_loader.php/?fruit_machine cut nd paste the class list in the window and the fruit machine decides who...		 11/10/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
you can make fun worksheet by creating a "wordle" http://www.wordle.net/ I have used it in an exercise where the students had to outline the agancy theory using the words in the "wordle" they found...		 11/10/09
Shanie had this idea:
Students created a puppet show of the Little Hans Case Study.  They were brilliant!...		 10/10/09
Janet Pike had this idea:
My idea is a really good website on Neurons and synaptic transmission. http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations/synaptic.swf...		 6/10/09
Aidan had this idea:
My idea is to use SurveyMonkey.com for the Edexcel social psychology practical. It's free and offers a range of question types. Students can then email people to take the survey....		 5/10/09
Joanna had this idea:
A cheeky way to get your students to write an essay! Give each student in your class a blank piece of paper and tell them they have 60 seconds to write a response to an essay question.  They...		 1/10/09
laura mc had this idea:
Fantastic lesson plan about sleeping disorders can be found on the NIH website.  The lesson resources provide students with case histories and then students must decide on the sleep disorder and...		 29/09/09
Kim Rouvelin had this idea:
My idea is ...i had my intro pscyhe students make caricatures of the "fathers" of psychology with their respective theories on 11 x 17 in posters. No names or words were allowed. then they presented...		 27/09/09
Justin Greer-Spencer had this idea:
Milgram Play Your Cards Right!   Quite simple - once the students know the procedures well, as you know, it's time to move on to the variations, with their different percentages of Pp going to...		 27/09/09
Nicole Moorhouse had this idea:
I went on a course recently, there were many great ideas. One I have used recently was when I was teaching adults sampling. Using the cards from 'Guess Who' you can demonstrate random, opportunity,...		 21/09/09
Belfast Bridie had this idea:
Using the Mr Men and Little Miss! I buy the little books (sometimes BOGOF in Morrisons) and ask the students to relate a character to something in Psychology - some examples: MR RUDE AND...		 15/09/09
Daisy had this idea:
My idea is ... to use 'Kim's game' as an introduction to short term memory - items are presented to the students on a tray (the more the better), then taken away by the teacher. Students then have to...		 13/09/09
Daisy had this idea:
Circadian rhythms - my idea is to get students to write about the SCN, melatonin etc in the style of a tabloid newspaper report. They can use studies as evidence and include silly quotes from people....		 13/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
The Street My idea is that if you missed the episode of The Street by Jimmy McGovern that dealt with racism then you should try to  watch it A.S.A.P. I think it was episode 4 or 5.It was an in...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Students review the review   I take a picture of the students trying to look like journalists sporting chewing pens and sporting clipboards. I have a wall display called students review the...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
  Recipe for an essay Students re write their essay plan as recipe to try to get across the idea of proportions eg 5mg of intro including….. 30 mg of  evidence to...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Lollipops Buy the cheapest lollipops you can find in the holidays, to use as prizes.They are less tempting to yourself than chocolate they are cheap and they keep them quiet. I know Mandy Wood ...		 3/09/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Improving Schemes of work I find it’s a good idea to go  through all my  revision notes and reflect on the activities and last min handouts I used at revision time because  it...		 3/09/09
jude bumby had this idea:
1st lesson of AQA A AS course can be used to provide material on strategies for improving memory to be analysed later.  Depending on whether most students know the class or not, either get small...		 2/09/09
Carole Broughton had this idea:
Exercise on Gender differences - AQA spec A I used this to introduce gender differences and also to practice application of statistics. I get the students to do 2...		 31/08/09
Juliette Massey-Smith had this idea:
Excellent website for RELATIONSHIPS topic (and maybe more) http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/society-community.html#Relationships...		 25/08/09
sarah shan had this idea:
Found an article on false memories. It also links to alien abduction (paranormal psychology) http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/dec/04/science.research1...		 18/08/09
Lynsey Parkinson had this idea:
When I was teaching content analysis we used lonely hearts adverts.  Some of the class did qualitative analysis, describing the person and then making judgements, meaning we could criticise the...		 14/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...just had a quick idea that could be used in lots on contexts but maybe only in slightly smaller classes. My idea was to use it with the different experimental designs. Get a load of...		 14/08/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
my idea is get the students to have the ideas. I already have wall/washing line were the students can make requests, that I go over something again or very specific things to revise at revision...		 13/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...this website has an online demonstation o hamilton and gifford (1976) which explores the formation of stereptypes, sepcifcally the shared distinctiveness account. i will be using this...		 11/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...Visit this website to play the tower of hanoi game with up to ten disks. This task is mentioned in the uniview handout on autism which I am using at the...		 7/08/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
my Idea is to get students to reflect on the information they have just been given. have a 'carpet bag' full of objects   a la Mary Poppins. Students pick out an object and have  to...		 5/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
This is an excllent website about cultural differences in child rearing practices and attachment. It also has some downloadable posters which could be useful for internationalism element for IB...		 4/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
This is a good website about feral children with everything you and your students could want to know as a follow up to the genie case study: http://www.feralchildren.com/en/children.php?tp=2 It also...		 4/08/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...when evaluating theories you could literally build a tower of support using paper cups. Divide the class into teams; one team works on support for the theory, e.g.studies which support...		 31/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...to illustrate trace decay I have all the students in the class stand up and pretend to be a neuron. The idea is that they form a engram by putting their hand on the next persons...		 30/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...to demonstrate ingroup and outgroup I set our students a challenge this year called "PGS goes gangland!" They had to get into teams (I randomly selected these) and they had to come up...		 30/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
For the Hofling study (which has to be done in detail for edexcel), I had the students write letters and diary entries. They wrote a diary entry from a nurse who had been obedient and then regretted...		 30/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...to teach the bandura study (which has to be done in depth for Edexcel)I had the students make Bandura's three laboratories (from coloured paper but I made my own model with a show box...		 30/07/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
My idea is :- Not fully developed yet but I heard about it on the radio. There exists apparently such a thing as a lending library of stereotypes. If you live in the great city of London I believe...		 30/07/09
Helen Gibb had this idea:
Whenever I get an idea for a new activity I code it Red  Really fun for them a lot of planning for me. Something they wont forget. An event Yellow A staple but fun classroom...		 30/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...this website has a good activity for introducing covert racism; http://www.sciencecases.org/racism/racism.asp...		 26/07/09
sarah shan had this idea:
Psychological mind game - the cube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIC3zBUn_80&feature=related Good starter for introducing psychology or just to warm up their brains...		 24/07/09
sarah shan had this idea:
To get the students to produce a canvas painting based on a study to help remember it then display the art around the room. They could be used for the following year or sold to raise money for the...		 24/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
About to embark upon new voyage into the world of IB (International Baccalaureate), my really quick idea is that I will create laminated A4 (landscape) sheets for each of the aspects of the IB...		 17/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...As a celebration at the end of our induction programme, we had a 'history of psychology cocktail party'. I made nice invitations for all pupils and provided red and white sparkling pop....		 16/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...if you haven't found this site already, its totally brilliant. But beware, you may become addicted for a while, I did. Its great for little tests that you can do under different...		 16/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...I can’t take credit for this one as it was my friend Helen Gibb’s idea (Blandford School, Dorset) but we have both used it. At revision time we created washing lines in our...		 16/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
My idea is ...I have been using a website called survey monkey with the pupils to create online questionnaires, (type it into Google for full web site name). It’s completely brilliant....		 15/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
I have organised our own criminal psychology mini-conference for the past two years through contacts with our local university. We have had three speakers each time and also a research project where...		 15/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
Another idea relating to Child psychology (edexcel Paper 3). As my daughter is in nursery at the moment, I arranged for our rising year 13s to each visit the nursery and conduct a 35 minute...		 15/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
We are working on Child PSychology at the moment (A2 Edexcel) and as so many of my friends are either pregnant or have babies, I invited them all to come and be interviewed by the students. We bought...		 15/07/09
Mandy Wood had this idea:
For our cognitive psychology experiment (Edexcel Paper 1), I took two of our AS groups to the City Museum, which is next door to the school - lucky us!) and allowed them 5 minutes in each of the 5...		 15/07/09
Laura Rudd had this idea:
Idea for sperry (OCR) If you have visual learners in your class, they will enjoy this one. Get a brain mould (some good ones from this website...		 13/07/09
Mark Souter had this idea:
My idea is ... Get over to 'The Psychfiles'- http://www.thepsychfiles.com/ - and if you have iTunes (other Podcast engines are available!) subscribe. This site has loads of good ideas and an...		 12/07/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
Radio 4 broadcasted a programme "The Criminal Mind" on Monday. It explains the latest research on the biological approach to criminal behaviour. It lloks at the effects of neglect and violence in...		 8/07/09
Deb Gajic had this idea:
My idea is ...to host a murder mystery party for my year 13 students. As part of their studies of Forensic Psychology, I thought it might be a fun activity. Games cost between £10 - £15 from ebay. ...		 7/07/09
terri collier had this idea:
My idea is ... at the end of a lesson get each student to put a question about the lesson into a baloon and blow it up. at the start of the next lesson play "pop the question" as a recap. loud and...		 3/07/09
Jemma Wood had this idea:
I stick statements to balls from a child's ball pool. I then make the whole class stand up and throw a randomly picked ball to each one at a time. This might be an assumption of the social approach...		 2/07/09
Juliette Massey-Smith had this idea:
A quite useful website with interactive activities that can be used as starters or plenaries... http://sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/psychology/pages/physiological/physiological.asp...		 1/07/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
One of my students showed me a (maily) free software to produce quizes .... I have downloaded it (without difficultiy) and it seems a bit more "jazzy" than the hotpotato programme... Worth a try?...		 29/06/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
I have found a useful website with lots of useful psychology resources http://www.psychologistworld.com well worth a look...		 29/06/09
sarah shan had this idea:
The new scientist  june 27th- article re: perception- the brain perscieves a tool such as a tooth brush as an extension of the arm (limb)...		 28/06/09
sarah shan had this idea:
My idea is ... instead of buying a light box for SAD you can simply replace a table lamp bulb with a daylight lamp or flourecent lamp....		 25/06/09
sarah shan had this idea:
My idea is ... to use photos of members of staff looking angry and ask pupils to rate them to see who looks the most aggressive and why. This could be a starter activity for the aggression topic....		 25/06/09
sarahjane power had this idea:
My idea is I found the following source AMAZING: www.thepsychfiles.com Michael Brittons work is great, particulary his MAPPR audio mapping of concepts. You can also buy a mnemonics book for the...		 22/06/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
 I have found some good quality resources on http://www.freewebs.com/bpsnotes/psychology.htm well worth a look...		 18/06/09
Deb Bennison had this idea:
My idea was to find Charley Brown/Snoopy cartoons. Easy to google. Then print them onto an A3 sheet for the students to cut out the figures, minus the speech bubbles, to make a new series of pics...		 17/06/09
sarah shan had this idea:
My idea is ... I have found a good website that have lots of information and videos about many topics such as:- sleep, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, addiction, stress and probably more ...		 14/06/09
Karoline Wellborne had this idea:
My idea is to give out a series of instructions e.g. fold a piece of paper three times, tear it into strips, etc and make each step more outlandish. By the end they are standing on their desks,...		 1/06/09
RMiners had this idea:
My idea is to introduce Freud's theory of the mind... I get students to write (secretly) on a piece of paper what they would do if they could do anything at all, with no social, moral, ethical,...		 29/05/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
I am not sure if you know already but just in case you don't: Windows Vista has a voice recognition programme built in. To run it go to start in the search window type "speech" then click on the...		 17/05/09
Peter Gouge had this idea:
Speed dating. Students have 10 mins to learn any area or study which they will later teach. After this time, pupils have 3 mins to talk about what they learnt, then they swap and hear about what...		 16/05/09
Michael Griffin had this idea:
I have discovered you can download (and keep) videos from BBC iplayer. Search for ipdl.exe on google, download and enjoy!...		 13/05/09
mohsin had this idea:
Speed learning an idea which i learnt during my PGCE year from a very talented colleague. Basically this idea is the same as speed learning but instead of getting people getting to talk...		 11/05/09
Nikki Owen had this idea:
I've been beavering away making audio revision tracks for the OCR core studies, set to music. The idea was to encourage students to listen to them on their Ipods so that they can revise on the move,...		 30/04/09
Jamie Davies had this idea:
To introduce psychology or to get students to evaluate everything they hear use the attached file with loads of 'psychological misconceptions' on it to create packs of 10-20 cards each one having a...		 12/04/09
Eileen Richardson had this idea:
My idea is ...I got my student to make Skinner boxes. We used cardboard boxes from packs of A4 printer paper. Students were told that their boxes were to be aimed at lazy pet owners whose pets could...		 9/04/09
Joanne Haycock had this idea:
I got my students to do a Content Analysis on adverts for Day Care Settings. They made their own checlist of items in groups. Then they all analysed 10 ads I had copied out of a local magazine. They...		 2/04/09
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...make stress response with playdough. Draw outline of body & make organs, pathways, hormones etc in playdough then annotate diagram. Take photo then display....		 1/04/09
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...'who am I' stereotype. Write stereotype on post-it, stick on foreheads then ask questions to guess. Gets prejudice out if the way & students enjoy it!...		 1/04/09
Lisa had this idea:
My idea is ...watch uk version of law & order episode 2 'unloved'. 14 year old accused of murder. Loads of psychology - nature-nurture, free-will determinism, genetics, self-fulfilling prophecy etc....		 1/04/09
Katie Allan had this idea:
My idea is ...use the first episode of 'the midnight man' with James Nesbitt for an introductory lesson on phobias. He has phengophobia (fear of daylight)...		 28/03/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
I have found a great website for edexcel resources: http://www.stephpalmer.co.uk well worth having a look...		 25/03/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
Not so much an idea than an announcement. HM died the following link takes you to an article about his life. It also reveals his real...		 10/03/09
john had this idea:
My idea is ...use Goanimate for kids to create cartoons of famous studies www.goanimate.com kids seem to enjoy it.....		 2/03/09
Jo Gotts had this idea:
My idea is ...for a quick plenary on any subject as an afl tool. I have A3 sheets of paper with an outline of girly pants or boxers or they could draw their own. They have to write a 'brief' summary....		 27/02/09
amina nakhuda had this idea:
An excellent toolkit that I use to help be get Active Teaching and Learning ideas Scroll down to page 11 of the pdf file and there are about 70 excellent classroom ideas for all year groups ks3, ks4...		 26/02/09
Elisabeth Brookes had this idea:
I have found a free software to make mindmaps. I have used it and it is fairly easy to use  You can get it from http://www.edrawsoft.com/freemind.php...		 25/02/09
Nicole Read had this idea:
My idea is ...when doing conditioning with GCSE get them to make a Skinner box! I did this with a group of lower level learners and they loved it! it was themed the mystery lesson. They came in and...		 24/02/09
lauren binnington had this idea:
My idea is digital storyboards. If you have a study, or anything that you would normally get students to draw a storyboard of, instead get them to bring in old toys, such as lego figures or sylvanian...		 21/02/09
Helen Kitching had this idea:
My idea is to introduce Piliavin I give each student a scenario where the decision is to help or not i.e. 'you are a 30 year old man driving down the M4 and you see a young girl of about 14 years...		 13/02/09
kim higgins had this idea:
An idea for helping students to revise a topic. Split the students into 4 or 5 groups and ask each group to design a page for a revision booklet. Give each group a small area of the topic to cover....		 13/02/09
Joanne Haycock had this idea:
For an introductory session for new students I printed off a series of pictures - a brain, picture of a baby, picture of a prison etc   I asked them to consider in groups why the photo...		 10/02/09
dorothy coombs had this idea:
This one is for students studying Bandura Ross and Ross but who don't like the idea of traditional forms of "role play".  No actual acting is involved! Ask one student to take on the role...		 10/02/09
Jenny Baines had this idea:
My idea is ...use laminated cards with key issues on, e.g. for OCR the cards include Ethics, methodology, type of data collection, reliability, validity, behaviourist persepective, psychoanalytical...		 5/02/09
Louise had this idea:
Obedience to an authority figure: Milgram. At the beginning of the lesson ask all the students to stand up, best done without too much emphasis such as as you're about to take the register. Start...		 22/01/09
Louise had this idea:
To get across Freud's defence mechanisms and how they use them in real life, students put together short role plays in which they can use any combination of defence mechanisms they like. The rest of...		 22/01/09
karen cooke had this idea:
Piliavin fun annimations http://goanimate.com/go/movie/07eaenfhMPpU?utm_source=emailshare&uid=0Dx98Jw4hkEQ...		 22/01/09
karen cooke had this idea:
My idea is ...to get students to use this website to create animations of some of the core studieshttp://goanimate.com/go/movie/07eaenfhMPpU?utm_source=emailshare&uid=0Dx98Jw4hkEQ...		 22/01/09
Jamie Davies had this idea:
Evaluation Issues Exercise. The students get a sheet (there’s about 18 all together so depending on class size 1 each or some may have to share) which is one of the themes, perspectives or just...		 11/01/09