AP Psychology Lesson Plan — Danku Week 1, Days 1-5

Weekday Monday 8/26 Tuesday 8/27 Wednesday8/28 Thursday 8/29 Friday 8/30
Topic Introductions Introductions Foundations of Foundations of Quantitative
Psychology Psychology Research: The
Scientific Attitude
&
Experimentation
Objective Explain the Explain the Highlight key Highlight key Describe the
SWBAT goals and goals and figures and figures and purpose and
expectations of expectations of perspectives in perspectives in techniques of
AP Psychology AP Psychology the history of the history of quantitative
psychology psychology research
Administrative Hand out Hand out -Collect signed -Collect signed -Collect signed
syllabus and syllabus and syllabi syllabi syllabi
textbooks textbooks

Subtopics -go over -go over -prescientific -prescientific -the scientific

syllabus syllabus psychology psychology attitude & critical
-expectations -expectations -Buddha, -Buddha, thinking
-Google -Google Confucius, Confucius, -the scientific
method
Classroom Classroom Hebrew Hebrew
-theory v.
-class website & -class website & scriptures, scriptures, hypothesis
course guide course guide Socrates, Plato, Socrates, Plato, -the research
-tests and -tests and Aristotle, Aristotle, process
quizzes quizzes Descartes, Descartes, -experimentation
Bacon, Locke Bacon, Locke -independent
-structuralism -structuralism variable
-functionalism -functionalism -dependent
-psycho- -psycho- variable
dynamics dynamics -extraneous
-behaviorism -behaviorism variables
-experimental and
-humanism -humanism
control conditions
-current -current -placeboes
perspectives perspectives -reducing bias
-big debate: -big debate:
nature v. nurture nature v. nurture
Guided -True/False -True/False -Introduction/ -Introduction/ - The Scientific
Instruction, about about Prologue ppt Prologue ppt Attitude &
Activities & -bookmark -bookmark -Graphic -Graphic Experimentation
Differentiation website and website and Organizer of Organizer of ppt
-Design Your
Google Google Historical Historical
Own Scientific
classroom site classroom site Figures Figures Experiment
-Assign -Assign -Toasting the -Toasting the
textbooks textbooks Greats Activity Greats Activity
-This is Me…. -This is Me….
Form Form
-birth order -birth order
activity activity
Skills & Use of -Google -Google -Screencastify -Screencastify -Google
Technology classroom classroom -Powerpoint -Powerpoint Presentation
-class website -class website YouTube YouTube -application of
-Annenberg -Annenberg -research & -research & new vocabulary
-creative thinking
Learning Learning creative writing creative writing
Homework OB: 1-14 OB: 1-14 OB: 349-359 OB: 349-359 OB: 30-44
WB: 3-14 WB: 3-14 WB: 239-249 WB: 239-249 WB: 27-37