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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine their thoughts on the origin and meaning of dreams on a personal basis. They compare and contrast different models of the nature of dreams. They maintain a dream journal over a specific period of time. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the study of human behavior and develop their ideas about the importance of understanding mental health. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore seven basic story lines and apply these story lines to news articles in the New York Times. They write reports comparing the plot of a news article to novels, plays and movies with which they are familiar. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students discuss health topics they would like to know more about. They read an article interviewing a psychoanalyst. They resarch any questions they have about a specific scienctist. They write their own newspaper article using questions and answers in the voice of their chosen scientist. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students view a PowerPoint presentation about the psychodynamic perspective in human development. They study Sigmund Freud as the key theorist in this method of personality development. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students in a high school remedial English class read "Of Mice and Men". In groups, they develop their own definition of intelligence and discover how it is used in language. They use the internet to research the body and mind connection and discover how nutrition and drugs affect the brain. To end the lesson, they expand on the definition of intelligence to include more than good grades. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students are introduced to the concept of surrealism in art. Using that information, they create their own surreal composition landscape. They explore the ideas of dreams and the subconscious by creating a collage. They review the concepts of foreground and backgrounds. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students brainstorm about the physical, emotional, and social developmental milestones of human beings. They complete a timeline as a class that begins with birth and ends with death. Students identify whether each milestone is physical, emotional, social, or a combination. They are explained that psychologists have studied the relationships between these milestones of human aging and emotional and social development. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students test Freud's theories about the originsof dreams. They conduct an experiment on a family member who is asleep. Students are explained that the experiment requires the students to be present for part of the time their volunteers are asleep. They are also explained that they should create a stimulus that does not wake up the volunteer but that may nevertheless be heard or felt by each sleeper. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students experience and study how to turn dreams and nightmares into creative unique works of art. They research and review the concept of surrealist art and the movement led by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams and how to bring them to life. Each student recalls a dream and sketches it out to observe and critique. Full Review »