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8th grade psychology projects
Research Project Social Media's Impact on Teens - Media Literacy Unit Activity
This high-interest research project focuses on a topic that is relevant to our world today – the effects of having exposure to the Internet at a young age and the impact of social media on today’s modern teens!Research topics include social media and anxiety, how social media facilitates the need to present one’s “false self,” cyberbullying and human trafficking, how social media impacts self-esteem, dangerous TikTok pranks and more!Students will choose and research a social media-related topic
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Project-Based Self-Discovery using 16 PERSONALITIES
Using the acronym format introduced by Myers-Briggs for its simplicity and convenience, 16 Personalities is a FUN, "freakishly accurate," student-friendly way for teens to understand themselves. This project-based lesson asks students to create an infographic describing their personality, and can be used in so many impactful ways; Try it out as a back-to-school introductory activity, in your psychology class, or simply to help students reach success through self-knowledge. Have fun!!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Psych / AP Psychology Activity MEGA BUNDLE - All 9 Units - Google Drive
More than 130 individual activities, assignments, projects, and/or experiment analyses for AP Psych / AP Psychology! Enjoy ALL of my rigorous, engaging, and fun classroom activities and projects! Includes Google Drive access to this LIVING BUNDLE that will only grow over time.These activities can be used to help develop skills and engage students throughout the year, or after the AP Test. You decide! See the content list below or in the preview images above.FOR BUYERS: MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD AND
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Psychology Brain Project : Students Pick from a List of Creative Ideas
This is a project description sheet for a creative brain project. I have my students pick from a list of options for them to make a model of the brain, draw or sketch one, make a skit, bake a cake, make a collage, or have a 3 ply poster presentation. When I first started doing psych 10 years ago, I just did physical models, but some students did not like it, so I added options that still demonstrated the same mastery of content. Now there are no complaints! I have a link to a Pinterest page
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Psychology Curriculum Custom Bundle
Multiple Intelligences Learning Profile Project
Are you looking for a creative getting to know you project that will help you get to know your students as people AND as learners? Try this Multiple Intelligences Learning Profile Project! Students will learn all about Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and create an individual learning profile worksheet to share with you and their peers. This project is an excellent icebreaker, but can be used for back to school, at the start of a new unit or semester, the day after New Year's br
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7th - 10th
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Celebrity Mental Illness Research Project | Mental Health | Distance Learning
Celebrity Mental Illness Research Project--Editable on Google Docs✅ Students get to choose from Google Slides or Poster (Google Docs)✅ Project provides step by step directions✅ Project should take about 3 classes (40 minute periods)✅ Goals/expectations are provided for each day✅ Can be used at the Middle School or High School level✅ NO prep needed, this resource is ready to go!✅ Mental Health is an important subject for teens to learn aboutWhat's Included:Google Doc with project instructions &am
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5th - 12th
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US History Geography Back to School Project | 6 Degrees of Separation PBL
Jumpstart your school year with this high-interest, yet rigorous authentic project!Empower your students to play scientist and traveler in this 1-week PBL inspired by Stanley Milgram’s theory of 6 Degrees of Separation and everybody’s grade-school favorite “Flat Stanley." The ultimate field trip and no permission slips necessary!This is the perfect project to kick-off a US Geography Test Series component to your US History course. This kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides.**
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Thematic Inquiry PBL Full Course Bundle Print & Digital
Innocence Project Poster and Gallery Walk Forensics Activity DIGITAL and PRINT
Perfect for Forensic Science, Criminal Justice Traditional In-Person or Digital Learning Platforms. In this activity, students will do research into cases of the Innocence Project and create a poster to share the cases. They will examine how faulty eyewitness testimony as well as other factors led to the wrongful imprisonment of innocent men and women. A Gallery Walk will be used to share posters and give students the opportunity to reflect on the cases. Working in a digital platform? No problem
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8th - 11th
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HS-LS1-1
Also included in: Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Activity Collection BUNDLE
Introduction to Psychology | Digital Deluxe Bundle
Are you a psychology teacher looking for that perfect way to teach your psychology course? Are you a new teacher who needs great activities? Do you need to update your activities, but don't have the time? Are you looking for "state of the art", innovative, and engaging activities to help your students comprehend the basic concepts of psychology? Do you want to convert your class into a "21st century" learning environment? This bundle is EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED!This "Introduction to Psychology De
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Friday the 13th & Other Superstitions: PowerPoint Presentation & Research Task
Friday the ThirteenthStudents love to discuss cultural superstitions, wondering where they came from, what they mean, and debating if there is any validity to them. I originally created this PowerPoint for a fun one-off lesson that I use any time I teach on a Friday the 13th (be it in English or Socials, Psychology, or Art).We go through various superstitions and discover their origins as a class. Students access background knowledge, make predictions, and discuss/debate their ideas. But, ove
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Psychology: Consciousness - Sleep and Dreams Journal
Psychology: Consciousness - Sleep and Dreams Journal
Student’s create a five day sleep journal in order to record their hours of sleep and “follow their dreams.” Assignment comes with journal template, assignment and directions handout, PowerPoint directions and a dream interpretation assignment to be given after journal completion. This fun and engaging project designed for students to become more aware of their sleeping habits and perhaps their dreams. Concepts include, Sigmund Freud’s theory
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Psychology: Consciousness Worksheet Bundle
Psychology Mental Disorder Project
This project guides student in the exploration of a psychological disorder. The project lists 24 choices. They design a cover, research a brief description, with treatment. The highlight of the project is when students write a narrative of the disorder like they are actually struggling with the disorder. This helps students to empathize with people who have psychological disorders.
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6th - 12th
Theories of Human Development: Full Unit
A complete unit of products to teach and reinforce theories in Human Growth & Development. These PowerPoints, notes, activities, and projects include the information for Erikson, Maslow, Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Skinner, Pavlov, and Bandura.❗What is inside?❗47 Slide PowerPoint covering 8 different theorist3 Pages of Notes to PowerPointTheorist Puzzle Sort Class ActivityMix & Match Theorist Review + Answer KeyTheorist Pop-Up Village Project + Grading Rubric out of 40 points25 point Goo
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7th - 12th
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Deviant Behavior and Disney Assignment
The following is an assignment/project in which Sociology students are instructed to re-write a Disney/Pixar movie by assigning a main character various acts of deviant behavior and then creating a "Case Study Character Analysis". I call it "Deviant Disney".This project is both creative and imaginative and allows Sociology students to apply acts of Social and Criminal Deviance as well as Theories of Deviance in a way in which students enjoy.The story requirements ask students to assign a charact
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Agents of Socialization Reading, Activity, & One Page Project: Print & Digital
This item starts with a page and a half reading going over various agents of socialization. There are questions for the students to answer related to the reading.Next are three read-aloud elementary books for the students to listen to so they can pick up on how the books are assisting with socialization and for the students to see what the hidden curriculum is.Finally, there is a one pager project for the students to complete highlighting one specific agent of socializationKeys are included!Mul
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Socialization Unit for Sociology: Print and Digital
Defense Mechanism Skits
This ZIP file includes an editable Microsoft Word document that contains skits for students to apply and practice Freudian defense mechanisms. Kids really love this topic as they can easily identify examples from their own life as we discuss them. There is a PDF version included as well.For this activity, students are put into groups of three or four and assigned one of the defense mechanisms covered (projection, repression, regression, sublimation, rationalization, denial, reaction formation,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Superhero Paper - Psychology and the Brain
This ZIP file contains an editable Microsoft Word document (as well as a PDF version) of an assignment used to help students review brain parts during the Biological unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering the brain structures and their functions in class.Students are asked to write a "superhero" paper while incorporating psychological knowledge. They invent a superhero and supervillain who have obtained superpowers due to brain abnormalities or accid
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Custom Bundle - One Semester Psychology Course Bundle
This product can be used to teach Psychology for one semester. The bundle contains eight popular units to give students a well-rounded understanding of psychology at a high school level in one semester. You can always visit my website at learningthesocialsciences.com to see my weekly lesson plan overview.Units:-Introduction to Psychology-Motivation, Stress, and Emotions -Developmental Psychology-Personality -Learning & Conditioning-States of Consciousness -Psychological Disorders-Social Ps
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8th - 12th
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Intelligence and Testing Webquest
This is a zip file that contains a webquest (both in an editable Microsoft Word document as well as a PDF Version) designed for a Psychology or AP Psychology course during the Testing and Individual Differences unit.The webquest has two parts. The first page asks students to read and report on a variety of research regarding topics in the Intelligence realm - bell curve and standardization, birth order and IQ scores, Flynn effect, Mozart effect, etc. The second page has students take a variety
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Developmental Application Project for Psychology
This project is meant to accompany a Development unit in a Psychology or AP Psychology class. It contains:-- an environmental/evolutionary development page, where students take a genetic profile and examine how they've been exposed to social learning theory in their lives-- a social development page, where students explain how they've passed through each of Erikson's psychosocial stages, ask their parents for information on their attachment style as babies, and determine their parent's parentin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mental Illness Research Project | Mental Health | Health Education
Mental Illness Research Project✅ Students get to choose from 4 different options✅ Project provides directions for all options✅ Project should take about 3 classes (40 minute periods)✅ Goals/expectations provided✅ Can be used at the Middle School or High School level✅ NO prep needed, this resource is ready to go!✅ Mental Illness and Mental Health are important subject for teens to learn aboutWhat's Included:Can print OR post to Google Classroom⭐⭐⭐TPT CREDITS!!!⭐⭐⭐Don't forget to leave feedback! W
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6th - 12th
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High School Psychology: Resource BUNDLE
High School Psychology: Resource BUNDLEINCLUDES:OutlinesProjectsQuizzes/TestsViewing Guides and MORE!Great for AP/Regular Psychology/Sociology
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Phobia Research Project
Inspired by reading an informational piece about glossophobia (fear of public speaking). Students would each choose a different phobia, conduct research, make a project, and present it to the class.
The two years I've done it, I did two variations. To shorten the time it took, I only gave students an option to do a poster. Then when it was due, they did a gallery walk of all the posters instead of individual presentations that took 2-3 days. Also, the longer project included an interview port
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6th - 9th
Redesigning a Social Institution (A Student Inquiry Project w/ Class Slides)
Many people, for generations, have complained about how school works. And how hospitals work. And how the court system works. And on and on! Turns out we are all pretty good at complaining. In this project, though, students will get the chance to actually reimagine, redesign, and remake one of those social institutions, or another of their choice!This project empowers students to be creators of their own learning, while learning about basic institutions that are structuring society. What this pr
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6th - 12th
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