Psychology Lesson Plans

This lesson has students read articles by Alice Walker about the Civil Rights and write what they know, want to know, and later what they learned. In this psychology of the Civil Rights movement lesson, students write a pre-organized paragraph and reflect on the readings and discussion.

In this lesson students explore student psychology by reading an anger management story. In this conflict resolution lesson, students discuss the different causes for angry outbursts and define a list of psychological vocabulary terms. In this lesson students read a story about a boy who is overwhelmed with emotion and deals with it as best he can.

Learners develop an oral or PowerPoint presentation on a career area in psychology.  In this psychology careers lesson, learners use Internet sources and books to research one career in the area of psychology.  Learners then create a presentation which discusses 9 aspects of this career, including the nature of the work, working conditions, training, etc . . .

In this lesson students learn about psychology.  In this unconscious mind lesson, students examine the life and theories of Sigmund Freud.  In this lesson students define psychoanalysis, the conscious mind, the unconscious mind, Freudian slips, the ego, the id, the superego and the Oedipus Complex.

This lesson has students investigate why some people choose an avatar different from their own personality. In this psychology lesson, students explore three different virtual worlds to collect information. They analyze results and formulate a conclusion.

Students discover human psychology by analyzing bullies.  In this conflict mediation lesson, students discuss what makes bullies act cruel and ways to appropriately deal with one.  Students share stories of times they were bullied and how to protect yourself from cyber-bullying.

Students discover the names, differences, and symptoms of various psychological disorders through small groups and entire class games and discussion.

Students discuss the nature of mental disorders. They research what abnormal behavior is and the perspectives of psychological disorders. Students practice diagnosing cases from the DSM-IV casebook.

Students explore the career areas from personal experiences of people in the psychology profession. In this career lesson, students invite career presenters to their class room to discuss their career field. Students ask the participants questions from a given questionnaire and create video presentations for the career discussion.

Students can engage in a variety of classes that can be found in a higher education Psychology class. Some of the activities include: Research new and old technology in brain imaging.Listen to lecture and take notes while forming a conclusion.