Student+Led+Seminar+Final+Project

=Final Psych Unit! Student Led Seminar= Hello and welcome to your final unit of Social Studies! For this unit, you are going to do my job for me! Hooray! All kidding aside, it's amazing how fast this semester has gone and how many topics in Psychology that we haven't been able to cover! In order to make sure that you have some knowledge of the following Subjects:


 * - Sensation and Perception (2-3 people) ** Marlee, Samantha and Wesley / Ben, Dong Jin and Avi
 * - Motivation and Emotion (2-3 people) ** Josh and Julian / Raina, Josh, and Patrick
 * - Life Span Development (3-4 people) ** Min Jae, Joon Sik and Do Hyun /
 * - Memory (2 people) ** Mako and Divya / Min Jeong and Yoon Ah
 * - Consciousness (sleep and dreaming included) (2-3 people) ** Nick, Rich, and Dave / Ayesha, Chloe and Amira
 * - Intelligence (2 people) ** Seth, Nehal, and Urvi / Kim, Thomas, and Sophia
 * -Social Psychology (2 people) ** Megha and Lucy/ Komali and Zain

You will choose your groups and topics and will be given topics on a first come, first serve basis. So hurry up! Once you have your partners and topic to teach the class about. Here is the information you need:


 * For each lesson you MUST answer the following questions: **


 * 1) What are the learning goals/main things you want students to be able to do by the end of the lesson?
 * 2) What are the most important concepts to know about in order to understand the topic (Ex: people, experiments, major discoveries)?
 * 3) Why is this topic a part of the field of psychology (study of human mind and behavior)
 * 4) ** Lasting Impact. ** How has the topic affected the way people think today? Why is it important to know about?


 * Specific Requirements:**


 * 1 ** . **LESSON PLAN (80 points)**: You must have a typed lesson plan that answers the questions on the previous page and follows the template you will be given later. The lesson plan will also outline what you will be doing for each step of your lesson and how long each step will take.


 * Where to start: ** The first thing you need to do is figure out what main lessons you want everyone to learn. The simplest way to do this is to READ THE TEXTBOOK! You do not need to have students read for your lesson BUT you should in some way summarize the ideas of the text. Your book is actually quite good at summarizing main ideas and important lessons for all of the above topics so use it!

Write the main topics you will discuss and think of questions you can ask about each topic. Then, start to fill in the sections of the lesson plan that correspond to your goals and questions. Once you have the main ideas of your lesson and understand your topic, you can start to think about other reserouces internet/activities/movies/music/games that you want to add to engage your students. Lesson Plan Template: Lesson Plan Rubric:


 * 2. ACTIVITY (25 points): Included in your lesson plan will be an activity to help keep your classmates’ attention. Your activity should support your lesson and help make it a bit more fun! ** (in my lesson I did the beach activity to simulate the principles of classical conditioning)

- Examples: Popcorn Reading - Graphic Organizers and Worksheets to help students organize information from your presentation. - Film Clips - Interactive Games - Debates - Poems - Imagination Exercises - Etc.

Score Based on following criteria: (points awarded on the left of each description)
 * 25 - ** Activity is interesting and really helps me understand the topic.


 * 20 ** - Activity is mostly appropriate and its materials are mostly relevant to the topic.


 * 15 - ** Activity is somewhat appropriate and its materials are a little relevant to the topic.


 * 10 - ** Activity is hardly appropriate and its materials are barely relevant to the topic.


 * 5 - **Activity is not appropriate and its corresponding materials are not relevant to the chosen topic.


 * 3. A POWER POINT (25 points) ** to help you organize your lesson throughout the period. **Note: Be sure to post your powerpoint on this wiki!**
 * Power Point Rubric: **

3. Power point has all of the key terms and main concepts and ideas of the lesson. _/ 10

 * 4. PRESENTATION (100 points) ** The effectiveness of your overall presentation will be **GRADED BY YOUR PEERS!** In other words, you will be giving your classmates a score and you will be graded based on a rubric that will be given to you. Your score will be based on how effective your lesson is in helping your classmates to learn.

Peer Rubric:


 * FINAL TEST/ASSESSMENT (10 points) ** In order to tell whether or not your classmates learned from your lesson you must give them some sort of final assessment. This should be 10 multiple choice, true-false, or fill in the blank questions that will be part of your final test! You **must** submit these questions to Ms. Currey **before you present!**


 * REFLECTION (10points): ** After you teach your lesson, your classmates will give you feedback about how well they think you helped them to learn about your topic. Once you have graded your final assessment and have feedback from your peers, you will evaluate the effectiveness of your lesson. What do you think you would do differently if you had to make a lesson again?


 * TOTAL PROJECT POINTS: 250 POINTS! **

Example Lesson Ms. Currey Showed you in class! AMAZING! [[file:Learning ppt 2010.ppt]]

 * Period 2 Test: [[file:Psychology Period 2 Student Led Seminar Test.docx]]**


 * Period 4 Test: [[file:Period 4 Psychology Student Led Seminar Test.docx]]**