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Teaching activity
Call My Bluff Icebreaker Activity
Here's a great icebreaker activity for the start of term, to get students introducing themselves and talking in small groups.
Gender Specific Toys
This video could be a superb introduction to teaching aspects of gender. The programme recreates a famous 1970s experiment on kids and gender presumptions.
Guess Who: The Psychology Version
Do you want a fun revision game to help students remember all the different psychologists? Why not play Guess Who!
CSI Psychology: Turn Your Classroom into A Crime Scene
Teaching Forensic Psychology? Then why not turn your classroom into a crime scene and let the students carry out an investigation.
Questions & Resources from the "New IB Psychology Syllabus – Are you Ready?" Webinar
Over 50 teachers attended the first in a new series of tutor2u IB webinars. The first webinar provided an overview of the new specification, including what's changed and what the new exams will...
Grade Boosting Burgers for Tasty Essays
The tutor2u evaluation pads are having a noticeable impact on the quality of A Level Psychology student answers - according to this lovely testimonial from Shareen Ashraf!
Free Revision Crosswords for Social Psychology
Would you like a series of crosswords based explicitly on the key terms in the spec? Would you like multiple versions for differentiation? Would you like a set of three social psychology crosswords...
I love resources. I horde them away happily and think “that will be so useful for X topic”, and then when it comes to it, I don’t really use them…
Guess The Correlation Game
Teaching correlation coefficients might not be the most interesting aspect of psychology; however, an online ‘game’ might help to add an element of competition in the classroom.
Breaking News: A Great Tool For Teaching Evaluation
Creating news headlines can be a great way to generate discussion or teach evaluation.
Introducing the Burger Evaluation Pad
Writing effective evaluation is an important skill in A-Level Psychology. In fact, evaluation is so important that it’s worth 36-38% of the entire A-Level. While there are many evaluation...
Lights, Camera, Action! A Shocking Rendition of Milgram
While providing real electric shocks in the classroom might NOT be an option, this doesn’t mean that you can’t replicate the Milgram experiment in other ways. This role play of Milgram (who is...
Thinking Tables: Graffitiing Desks for Learning
There’s nothing like graffiti and vandalism in the classroom…all in the name of learning of course. Just one of the excellent ideas posted in our Facebook Community this week has been aptly named...
Eggsperiment with Attachment
A new fun and creative teaching strategy is taking our Facebook Community by storm! Teaching Attachment with eggs…that’s right, you did read that correctly. Pictures highlighting this novel way to...
Visualise This: Using Technology to Model Research Method Answers
Last year I read about using visualisers in the classroom to model essay writing. Having spent some time thinking about how I could use visualisers to support A-Level students in Psychology, I...
STEM Starter: Minority Influence
This week's STEM Starter describes Paul's attempt to convince Mary, Mel and Sue of his new diet.
Marking Mocks: Time-Saving Strategies
Teachers are currently spending hours and hours marking mock exams, and the common theme on Facebook at the moment is how to reduce the time spent marking. This inspired me to write a short blog. ...
Using Play-Doh In Biopsychology Lessons
There are very few teaching strategies that I haven’t tried. However, I must confess that I have never used Play-Doh in the classroom.
STEM Starter: Relationship Breakdown
This week's STEM Starter describes a painful divorce between Brad and Angelina and the helpful advice of Clooney.
STEM Starter: Explanations of Attachment
This week's STEM Starter describes the relationship baby George has with his mother Kate and father William.