Forensic Psychology & Serial Killers Packet: 3 PowerPoints, 2 Activities ++
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The Forensic Psychology Packet includes both the Forensics Psychology lesson and the Serial Killers lesson. Each of these have a PowerPoint with embedded video clip links, illustrated Student Guided Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. In addition there is also a Serial Killers Case Study Activity, a Video Reflection Activity on John Wayne Gacy, and a Rorschach Inkblot Images PowerPoint presentation.
The PowerPoints are fully editable. The Notes & Worksheets are editable Word Docs too. This will allow you to modify the lesson to your individual classroom needs. PDF versions of the notes and worksheets are also included. (You cannot copy or modify any part of this lesson to offer others for free or for sale.)
The Forensics Psychology lesson covers the following topics:
- Psychologist
- Psychiatrist
- Role in criminal arena
- Role in civil arena
- Forensic Psychology History
- Eyewitness accounts
- False confessions
- Current Forensic Psychology
- Limits of psychological testing
- Rorschach Test
- Thematic Appreciation Test
- Progressive Figure Drawings
- Personality Inventories (MMPI)
The Serial Killers lesson covers the following topics:
- Definition of a Mass Murderer
- Definition of a Serial Killer
- Motivations of Serial Killers
- General Serial Killer profile
- US Serial Killers by decade
- U.S. and International trends
- Jack the Ripper
- Jeffery Dahmer
- John Wayne Gracy
- Ted Bundy
Serial Killer Case Study Activity Description
This is designed to be a group activity. The class is split up into groups. Each group is given an article about a particular serial killer. The groups then reads through their article, and fill out the Serial Killer Case Study Activity Handout. The handout has the following areas to be filled out:
- Name of case
- Date
- Background
- Modus Operandi
- Killings and Sentence
After the students fill out their handouts they brief the class about their case.
There are 13 separate Serial Killer Articles included. These are the names:
- Albert Fish
- Andrew Cananan
- Bell Sorenson Gunness
- Charles Manson
- Coral Eugene Watts
- David Berkowitz
- Ed Gein
- Gary Ridgway
- Herman Webster Mudgett
- Jeffery Dahmer
- John Wayne Gacy
- Richard Angelo
- Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
This assignment is a Video Reflection of the documentary about John Wayne Gacy, AKA “The Killer Clown.” The video is approximately 45 minutes long.
Gacy “was an American serial killer and rapist. He sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" because of his charitable services at fundraising events, parades, and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself.”
This video is available on YouTube for free. The link to the video is included with the download.
Several years ago I stopped using accompanying worksheets to videos I show in class. Too many times students are more focused in answering the questions, rather than absorbing what they are watching. But, I wanted the students to be actively engaged with the video. So, I started using “Video Reflections”.
The video reflection handout has two columns on it. Student write what they have learned on the column on the left. They write down any questions they have on the column to the right. At the end of class, each student needs to tell the teacher something they learned, or a question they have.
When given a choice, most students would rather have this type of assignment, compared to a worksheet.
Rorschach Inkblot Images PowerPoint
Resource includes a PowerPoint and a two page handout of the ten inkblots of the Rorschach test printed in Rorschach's Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates, together with the most frequent responses for either the whole image or the most prominent details according to various authors.
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