[Psychology] year 10 psychology

[Lisa Dooley]

Hi,

Your best bet is to purchase the "Psychology in Action" text, (Macmillan, 
Ricci and Letch).  It covers pretty much what you would be interested in 
teaching and the activities in it are interesting and well-structured.  We 
use half a class set at Mt Waverley and the kids always try to read ahead 
because they like the book.  We also use the Grivas and Lawrie "Psychology 
Experiments and Activities" - a great resource for teaching them how to do 
ERA's, and there are plenty that do not tread on the toes of the Unit 1-4 
courses.
My classes also do Rain Man to cover autism when doing concepts of normality 
and abnormality, 7 UP for longitudinal studies and observation, Body Hits 
and The Human Face for interest (they love them) and for building general 
knowledge in the field.
They produce a brochure on what to expect when seeing a psychologist, a 
poster on Schizophrenia or Depression (high incidence in the community and 
we post them around the school for community awareness) and research an oral 
presentation on a negotiated topic of their choice - anything goes - from 
the psychology of colour, family constellations, stages of grief, clinical 
disorders and pseudoscience; this is incredible to watch and they always 
amaze me with what they work out and how they engage their peers.
We do cover the basic structure and functioning of the brain but mainly do 
work on extending what they already know and do the '1 brain, 2 hemispheres, 
3 parts, 4 lobes' and look at hemispheric dominance (great ERA in the book 
for this and lots of interactive stuff on the Internet).
We do other bits and pieces but that is the basis of what we cover in the 
elective (1 semester).

Cheers, Lisa Dooley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Bairstow" <lisabairstow at gmail.com>
To: <psych at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: [Psychology] year 10 psychology


> Hello!
>
> I'm teaching year 10 Psychology next year for the first time and was
> wondering whether anyone would be willing to share any resources.
>
> This year, the year 10 course examines components of the year 11 and
> 12 classes. I would like to move away from this and find topics which
> will generate the most interest from students.
>
> So, does anyone teach anything on forensic psychology, clinical
> psychology (serial killers etc) or sports psychology?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Lisa Bairstow
>
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