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Students were split into groups and sent in to different classrooms around the school to act as real life ethnographers! Students loved this hands on activity and had a great time watching and interacting with other classes (cultures) while they filled in their data collection sheets. Once all data was collected, we discussed their findings as a class. This activity was a truly memorable experience that has stuck with them over the course of the school year!

Students and teachers alike will LOVE this interactive and hands on activity. All you will need is a piece of fabric for the TOUCH sensation and a scent that you can spray in the room for the SMELL sensation. There is a short introduction on Wundt and him impact on modern day psychology and then the activity begins to immerse students in tactile learning! All instructions are in the PowerPoint!

This is an in class project with six options that connect the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off with developmental psychology. Students viewed the film and took notes in class, were then assigned a character to analyze, and chose a style of presentation from a list of project options to allow for creativity for a variety of styles of learning. Students loved the freedom that this project allowed for and the finished products were amazing!

This bundle includes everything that teachers need for a film project on the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in connection with a unit on Developmental Psychology!

This project bundle includes the archetype chart that students will use as they watch the film to keep them focused as well as a student project sheet with explanations, details, and instructions for completion!

Culture- What Does It Mean? This was a great introduction to cultural anthropology that laid the groundwork for the basic concepts while also allowing students to brainstorm on their own to realize all that they already knew about cultural differences! There is a link in the notes of a great Ted Talk video (How Culture Drives Behavior) that engaged students, made them laugh, and helped to deepen in class connections as we explored it as a class!

This lesson discusses kinship and family ties across different communities and in different cultures! Students will become familiar with basic terminology supported by examples throughout. There is an embedded link to a video on kinship structures that the teacher can play for students to see examples of each type of structure in real life around the world. The teacher can then pause the video throughout to support the clip with in class discussion and connections to student generated examples!

This project uses the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as a medium for students to view Jung's different archetypes in a fun and relatable way! Students watch the film in class with a chart that they use to jot down which characters they feel fit into the different archetypes. They are then assigned a character from the movie as the focal point of the project! The final product is something that you will want to put on display!

I used this note presentation as an introduction to ethnography as part of my unit on Anthropology. I paired it with a simulation of ethnographic research in the classroom! This set of notes allowed for students to develop an understanding of ethnography in an easy to learn and applicable way! There are YouTube links in the notes section throughout the slides to help support student learning through visual examples!

This is a great introductory lesson on Anthropology! The teacher can use the slides to review some of the basic concepts of the unit with examples as well as show students a variety of pictures to help them to categorize different branches of anthropological study.

This lesson serves as introductory notes on Behaviorism and includes an introductory video link for students to watch as teacher pauses to discuss, an interactive game to bring the content to life, and an exit ticket making this a great, complete, first lesson! This directions for the game are in the notes section of the slide titled "Game."

This lesson introduces Piaget and his theory of cognitive development. There are video clips integrated into the presentation to show students real life examples of children at each cognitive stage as it is discussed throughout the presentation to help students better understand the content. The video clips included are public domain and used for educational purposes. There is also a short matching activity to check for student understanding before the exit discussion questions at the end!

These notes can serve as a perfect, basic introduction to Feudalism in Europe during the Middle Ages. The teacher can begin by asking students to look at the image on the title slide and share any prior knowledge that they have. Once the students share what they know already, the teacher can use following slides to build student knowledge from the ground level adding in as much detail as desirable with further explanation! The note stack includes pictures, maps, easy to follow notes, and video l

This is an introductory PowerPoint note presentation that introduces students to the unit with information, two short in class interactive activities, and a debrief discussion to make it a perfectly well rounded first lesson!

This is a small group activity for students that provides them with facts about each philosopher, asks them to discuss the facts, and complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting their philosophies. This is a great supplemental in class activity where students can work together! This activity includes group discussion questions as well that the teacher can use to check for understanding.

This presentation was used after the students viewed the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off to help them to make deeper connections to our Developmental Psych unit. This presentation served as a great way to get the class thinking and interacting with the material while also making sure that they were prepared to complete the assigned project!

This is a history specific essay self reflection for students to complete to track their progress over the course of different units. It is a great resource for students to keep to review at the end of the school year to see how they have improved as well as for teachers to use to review student feelings and progress.

A bundle of ESL Introduction to the Renaissance notes and note sheet for entry level ESL students (with Spanish translations).

This can serve as an introductory activity, supplemental in class activity, or homework assignment to reinforce in class learning about the theories of Skinner and Bandura. This is perfect for a unit on Personality Theories for a high school psychology class.

This is a short personality test for students to take as an introduction or a follow up to a lesson on Adler and Jung! This is a great bell ringer or exit ticket for students to help them to connect to the material that they are learning about in class in a personal way with results included!