This pack contains a full set of lessons for the topic of DRUG ABUSE. They have been designed for Year 10 but are also appropriate for Year 9 or Year 11. The lessons are designed for 3 x one-hour sessions but could be broken down into shorter sessions for form time activities, or delivered in one session during a curriculum enrichment week. Each pack contains: Scheme of work Student activities Teacher resources PPTs

STUDIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing a selection of key studies that are commonly used in specifications and/or as supporting evidence for the main theories. This is an editable 16-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. All the content includes the main principles of the study in terms of their aim, procedure, results and conclusions. Studies included are: 1 Bartlett (1932) War of the Ghosts -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to memory inaccuracy 2 Saacchi et al. (2007) Changing history: doctored photographs affect memory for past public events. -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to pretrial publicity 3 Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of auto mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. -Reconstructive memory -Schema Theory -Application to eyewitness testimony 4 Steyvers and Hemmer (2012) Reconstruction from memory in naturalistic environments. -Reconstructive and Episodic memory -Schema Theory -Application to memory inaccuracy 5 Peterson and Peterson (1959) Short-term Retention of Individual Verbal Items -Multi-store model of memory -Short-term memory duration -Application to rehearsal and interference 6 Bahrick et al. (1975) Fifty years of memory for names and faces: A cross-sectional approach -Multi-store model of memory -Long-term memory duration -Application to forgetting 7 Murdock (1962) The serial position effect of free recall -Multi-store model of memory -Primacy and recency effect -Application to rehearsal and STM/LTM distinction 8 Baddeley (1966b) Working memory model: The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long-term memory for word sequences. -Multi-store model of memory -Encoding in short-term and long-term memory -Application to learning information From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and powerpoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. To match with this I also have a THEORIES OF MEMORY booklet containing the main features of the most common theories and explanations of memory. (If you are looking for AQA GCSE Psychology I have a separate full resource pack available that includes all booklets, handouts and ready made powerpoints).

THEORIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the main features of the most common theories and explanations of memory. This is an editable 42-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. All the content includes the main principles of the theory / explanation and evaluative points. Topics included are: 1 What is cognitive psychology? 2 Encoding 3 Storage 4 Retrieval, recognition, and recall 5 The multi-store model of memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968) 6 The working memory model of short-term memory (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974). 7 Episodic and semantic model of long-term memory (Tulving, 1972). 8 Reconstructive memory and schema theory, (Bartlett, 1932). 9 Brain regions and long-term memory 10 Forgetting: Displacement, context, and interference 11 Memory Inaccuracy From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and powerpoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. To match with this I also have a STUDIES OF MEMORY booklet containing a selection of key studies that are commonly used in specification and/or as supporting evidence for the main theories. (If you are looking for AQA GCSE Psychology I have a separate full resource pack available that includes all booklets, handouts and ready made powerpoints).

ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the a broad overview of the ethical principles involved across psychology research. This is useful for an overview of ethics and developing the understanding of ethical issues as a wider issue and debate in Psychology. This is an editable 20-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. Topics included are: Ethics over time 1 The historical context of ethics when doing research. Ethics in sensitive topics 2 Ethics that may arise as a result of socially sensitive issues include privacy, confidentiality, poor methodology, equitable treatment, and ownership of data. 3 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for participants is explored when considering testing obedience of participants Ethics within specific groups 4 The implications of findings in of studies to inform working practice with vulnerable groups 5 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for participants is explored when considering brain damaged patients. 6 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues of using children in research Ethics when undertaking research 7 The management of ethics in of studies using a variety of methods to ensure codes of practice are maintained for participants. 8 The ethics of doing research such as ethical issues for animals, is explored when considering the use of animals instead of human participants. From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures.

NATURE NURTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB A teacher resource booklet containing the broad overview of the nature versus nurture debate across psychology. This is useful for an overview of nature versus nurture and developing the understanding of nature versus nurture as a wider issue and debate in Psychology. This is an editable 17-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. Topics included are: 1 What is nature versus nurture? 2 Researching nature and nurture: twin studies 3 Interactionism 4 Topics in the nature nurture debate -Aggression -Memory -Obedience -Gender -Personality 5 Why is nature versus nurture even an issue or debate? 6 Assessing the nature versus nurture debate From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and PowerPoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures. If you are planning for teaching the wider issues and debates across Psychology, I also have an ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY booklet containing a the main features of ethics used across specifications and/or as ‘dip in content’ to add to sections across the main topics in Psychology.

Quick Revision for GRAVEDS evaluation skills Psychology A Level / GCSE / iAL / IB This set of resources is designed for 5 minute revision guides to the main ideas of GRAVEDS (Generalisability, Reliability, Application, Validity, Ethics, Designs and Sampling) to help students evaluation their core studies across any Psychology course. It is an editable set of PPTs which contains an overview of the features of each component of GRAVEDS and an example of using each skill for a well known psychology study. There is also a word document which can be used as a summary handout for students or printed as a wall display prompt. These are narrated PPTs that last around 5 minutes, so you can just run them with sound as a lesson starter, but you can always delete the narration if you prefer to deliver them during a lesson. The pack contains: 8x PPTs, one each for: G Generalisability quick revision R Reliability quick revision A Application quick revision V Validity (Internal) quick revision V Validity (External) quick revision E Ethics quick revision D Design (experimental research designs) quick revision S Sampling techniques quick revision 1x summary for a wall display or student crib sheet The narrated PPTs can also be accessed as videos on YouTube on ‘SocialScience911’ if you wanted to utilise those for student’s to watch for homework tasks.

This contains assessments for AQA A Level Sociology (new specification) RESEARCH METHODS. Each assessment is a 10 mark ‘Outline and explain’ style question, in total there are six assessments, complete with a generic marking grid. The format can be easily adapted with changes to the question itself to expand the pack to cover all methods. Included is a 10 mark Outline and explain two advantages of: Covert observation Documents Questionnaires and a 10 mark Outline and explain two disadvantages of: Covert observation Documents Questionnaires

This is a resource pack for the first few lessons of AQA GCSE Sociology (new specification) to introduce students to new concepts and ideas, along with what to expect in the course. This pack usually takes me just a couple of lessons to deliver as part of a Year 10 induction week. It includes: Teacher booklet Student booklets PPTs Activities This can be adapted for other GCSE Sociology specifications, and can also be used or adapted if you have ‘taster’ lessons with Y9 into Y10 when they are picking their GCSE choices (or Y11 into Y12 if you offer GCSE at Sixth form). (You could also probably scale this up for Y12 A Level Sociology if you wanted to adapt the content and add the extra depth to cover the A Level standard). *If you are teaching Sociology, I have other resources available for the GCSE, and AQA & OCR A Level topic areas. These are full topic packs that are ‘ready to go’, so are especially helpful for anyone who is a PGCE student or NQT.