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Curriculum:
Unit 0: Foundations of Psychology
0.1: The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments:
How to think like a scientist: ask questions, look for evidence, and avoid jumping into conclusions.
Activity: Debate game, where teens receive humorous “myths” and must argue for/against them by using logic!
Module 0.2: The Need for Psychological Science
Why psychology matters: it helps us understand why people avoid “just guessing”
Activity: Guessing Game - Have teens predict behavior (like solving the puzzle the fastest) and then compare it to real results.
Module 0.3: The Scientific Method
Steps to test an idea: question, hypothesis, test =results
Activity: “Marshmallow Experiment" used with candy or cookies (predict how long people can resist from eating them
Module 0.4: Correlation and Experimentation
Just because two things happen together doesn’t mean one caused the other.
Activity: Funny chart match (ex: ice cream sales + sunburns) they talk about why they’re linked but not the cause and effect
Module 0.5: Research Design and Ethics in Psychology
How to run safe experiments without hurting people.
Activity: Act out “unethical” vs. “ethical” experiments and let students redesign them to be safe and more ethical.
Module 0.6: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Numbers can trick us, always ask what they really mean.
Activity: Show humorous “stats” like (“90% of teens love pineapple pizza”) and talk about why that might not be true.
Unit 1: Basics
Module 1.1: Interaction of Heredity and the Environment
Who you are comes from both your genes and your environment
Activity: Nature vs. Nurture Game - make the kids write down what traits you’re born with or learned
Module 1.2: Reviewing the nervous system
Your brain and nerves are your body’s communication system
Activity: Human telephone: info gets passed down so the kids can see how information is passed and how important it is for it to be accurate AND precise
Module 1.3: Neuron and Endocrine System
Neurons send signals and hormones send messages in your body.
Activity: Relay race (pass down an object super fast) to show how fast neurons have to transmit information into your brain
Drugs change how your brain works
Activity: Simulation like spinning around 15 times and trying to walk in a straight line
Module 1.4: Neuroplasticity
The brain can rewire itself and scientists use tools to study it
Activity: brain puzzles and memory games
Different brain parts do different jobs
Activity: Brain parts labelling
Left/right brain can handle different things and brains can adapt
Activity: try using different hands to draw and write things)
Module 1.5
1.5a: Consciousness
Being awake, aware, and in control
Activity: Mindful/meditation mini-session
Sleep states and Theories
Sleep isn’t “off time” your brain cycles through stages to rest and grow.
Activity: Make a comic strip about a stressed teen who scrolls and doesn’t get enough sleep
1.5c: Sleep loss, Sleep disorders, and dreams
Lack of sleep hurts health, dreams are known as brain activity with meaning.
Activity: Dream Journal + talk about common themes of dreams that occur often.
Module 1.6
How your senses bring in info from the world
Activity: blindfold activities like tasting stuff or touching objects
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