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The Psychology Teacher's Resource Guide Unit PlanThe Psychology Teacher's Resource Guide Unit Plan
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The Psychology Teacher's Resource Guide

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The activities in a comprehensive teacher's resource guide provides budding psychologists with opportunities to design experiments to study behavior, apply their knowledge of research variables, critique online behavior surveys, and much more.

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CCSS: Adaptable

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child psychology, scientific research, socrates, rene descartes, plato, john locke, aristotle

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social studies

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  • The guide may be used as the basis of a high school psychology course or individual lessons may be incorporated into an existing curriculum

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  • The 132-page teacher's resource guide includes 50 standards-based lesson plans, electronic resources, and assessment tools

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  • Each lesson identifies the standards addressed, the objectives, materials and preparation requirements, all necessary handouts, and assessments
  • Lessons are designed to adapt to any textbook

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RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1 SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a

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