Tuesday-Wednesday September 30, 2025

Circle: What would be your IDEAL (perfect) job?? 

AP Classroom

First Assessment on Friday October 3rd.  Don't forget that you can get an 80 if you have all the HW completed and bring to class.  Or roll the dice...

Activity: Using your data, create a scatterplot.  Label all appropriate items and make a determination of how strong a correlation your data shows and what it means.

Practice Test: How to take multiple choice tests.

Take Test

Worksheet- Finish the questions

1. What is a hypothesis? What was yours?

2. What is measurable data? What was one piece of yours?

3. What is population? What was your population?

4. What is a sample? What was your sample?

5. What is bias? Was your survey biased?

7. What was they conclusion you can make from your research?

Present Findings 1. What was your hypothesis? 2. What data stood out to you?  3. Look up what to do with you information you gathered if you were to build a scatterplot.  4. Practice Scatterplot.  5. Create your own and be ready to report out.

Test on Friday-Gold on Monday-Green

Hand out Study Guide

Test will be on Perspectives and Research Terms

This will be something you need to study for now.

Study Tips.

Friday September 26 and Monday 29, 2025

Friday September 26 and Monday 29, 2025

Circle: What is you most prized possession? 

AP Classroom

First Assessment on Friday October 3rd.  Don't forget that you can get an 80 if you have all the HW completed and bring to class.  Or roll the dice...

Activity: Finish Data Collection- send to classmates if you don't have at least 10 responses.

Worksheet- Finish the questions

1. What is a hypothesis? What was yours?

2. What is measurable data? What was one piece of yours?

3. What is population? What was your population?

4. What is a sample? What was your sample?

5. What is bias? Was your survey biased?

7. What was they conclusion you can make from your research?

Present Findings 1. What was your hypothesis? 2. What data stood out to you?  3. Look up what to do with you information you gathered if you were to build a scatterplot.  4. Practice Scatterplot.  5. Create your own and be ready to report out.

Test on Friday-Gold on Monday-Green

Hand out Study Guide

Test will be on Perspectives and Research Terms

This will be something you need to study for now.

Study Tips.

Wednesday(GOLD) September 24th, 2025

Wednesday(GOLD) September 24th, 2025

Quick View-What you should know about this unit 0?

Circle: A food you refuse to eat!

Survey: Today you will be collecting data for your survey.  Before you can go you must have all your survey questions and the boxes filled out on the assignment sheet.  Your population is this school.  If you are going into a classroom you need to have teacher permission.  

Due: You need to have your survey data by this Wednesday by the beginning of class.

Survey Project:  Assignment

 Gold Day Friday

Using DATA: Scatterplot

Tuesday (GOLD) and Thursday (GREEN) September 23 and 25th, 2025

Quick View- Syllabus, What you should know about this unit 0?

Circle: What do you wish you had more time to do?

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?

Survey Project:  Handout the Assignment. 

Friday 19, and Monday 22, 2025

 Friday 19, and Monday 22, 2025

Have you signed up for the AP Classroom?!!  You need to do it!!!

Homework is on Google Classroom

New seating chart and activity Monday and Tuesday

Seating Chart Activity: First introduce yourself and the share what is an ASMR sound, visual or feeling that produces a response for you? Better yet share a video or sound from your phone if you can.  Not everyone experiences ASMR so don't feel bad if you don't have one.

Circle: Something you wish was true, like "money grows on trees""nice guy always wins", ...etc

Friday Class: Hand Quiz-Review first

Table Activity: At your table see if you can figure out why that the 3 biggest factors determining assessment tests (STAR, NWEA, SAT) are: Birth mothers marital status, baby's weight at birth and first teacher.  How and why?

Second Question: Books in house?

Research in Psychology: How do we find out information about psychology?

Is this true and how would we know?

Why do we need science?

Astrology?

What we did- Took Quiz, signed up for AP Classroom.  Did Table Activity and Second Question.  For next class the were assigned homework for a formative and will get the research project. 

Wednesday-Gold Thursday Green September 17 and 18, 2025

Wednesday-Gold Thursday Green September 17 and 18, 2025

Quiz over the hand on Gold Friday and Green Monday

Next Class- sign up for AP Classroom

Talk About SAT's and superscoring

Circle: Doritos or Ice Cream

Green Day: 

1. Review-Go over HAND for Quiz on Monday

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Gold Day:

Fill out the hand

1. Review-Go over HAND for Quiz on Friday

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Intro to Psych: Prepare for Quiz-Practice Quiz

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

September 15 and 16, 2025

 Monday and Tuesday September 15 and 16, 2025

Circle: Something you heard or saw at fair?

Check homework for Formative Assessment

Green Day: 

1. Review-Explaining behavior with Psychological Perspectives

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Gold Day: Check homework for Formative Assessment

Fill out the hand

1. Review-Explaining behavior with Psychological Perspectives

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Intro to Psych:

Quiz

Next Class- sign up for AP Classroom

September 11, 2025

Thursday September 11, 2025

Circle: What is one dish/appetizer that is always at family holiday/functions and do you like it?

Homework Check: I screwed up.

Homework for the weekend.  SQ3R pages 38-47  It's a big one so break it up over time.

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem- Your tables job is to become an expert on one of the major Psychological Perspectives.  You will have a scenario that you are trying to understand AND explain why, from your assigned perspective,  they are acting the way they are.  Your will be reporting out to the rest of the class what your perspective thinks is going on.  You must make your explanations simple and straightforward and must check in with the rest of the class if they understand what you said because they are using your information for their notes and vice versa.  If they do not you must explain it a different in a different way.  There is an example page at on the last page of the handout.  At the end the class needs to decide which perspectives or combination of them seems like the best explanation for why the subject is behaving the way the are.  

Assign each table a perspective.  I've labeled them on the seating chart.  After they get their perspective:

Step 1 Decide who is taking on each role.

Step 2 Research

Step 3 Practice presentation.  If you don't understand what you teammate said you need to let them know.

Step 4 Present 

Step 5 Take clarifying questions from group

Step 6 Discuss with you group which perspective or combination seems like the best answer.

If time allows, Starting to SQ3R pages 37-47 which is their next homework assignment.

September 10, 2025

Wednesday September 10, 2025

Circle: Say you’re independently wealthy and don’t have to work, what would you do with your time to feel productive?

Homework Due:  Gallery Walk SQ3R pages 13-19 

Activity: The Hand and Perspectives

Discuss Activity: Evolutionary Psychology

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?  Why is, "Rat always right?"

Today....Assignment

Homework Due on Monday: SQ3R pages 

September 8-9, 2025

September 8-9, 2025

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart Activity:After you find you seat figure out three things you have in common with your table-mates.  You will be sharing this with the class.

Homework is due: Please get your homework out.  At you table discuss the following questions- How long did it take you to complete?  Did you feel like you took more or less notes than you usually would?  Do you feel like you understood what you should be looking for and what was important or not?  Now at you table, go over the homework and share how you answered the questions.

Circle: Your favorite fair food and/or ride?

Google Classroom

Period 1:

Period 2:

Period 3:

Period 5:

period 6:

Period 7:

Homework which we will start in class is to SQ3R pages 13-19 Due next class

Activity: The Hand and Perspectives

Activity: Evolutionary Psychology

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?

Coming up....Assignment

September 4, 2025

Thursday September 4, 2025

Quick View- Notebook, Being responsible, Maturity

Circle: Name and what is ONE pet peeve of yours?

Activity Quiz:

What do you remember about the people at your table?

1. Name a job you wanted to do when you were little

2. Favorite cartoon

3. One place you'd like to visit.

Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 

Your brain is a prediction machine...

Lets look at mental processess? Using your Myers-Briggs profile look at that profile that is the opposite of yours and be ready to discuss how different that world would be for you.  What seems like it would blow your mind?

Understand... At your table-Fundamental Attribution Error

Perspective Activity: At your table come up with a working definition of perspective. 

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psych

Old People- How much different do you think you'll be when you are 70 years old?  When you talk to old people, do you feel like they are happy or sad?  What is one of your biggest concerns about growing old and gray?  What do you think you'll look like when you are old.  Imagine what you think you'll look like.

What do you see?

What did I just do to influence what you saw?  Turn and talk

Activity: How to read informational texts.  Module 0.1 in class.  Module 0.2 for homework.  I will be checking this tomorrow for a formative grade.

Research SQ3R: Be prepared to present out your findings.  What is it?  How does it work? Why is it so effective?  

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is online.  Just type in your 4 letters in the search bar.

4. Briefly write down what you agree with and 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters

September 2, 2025

Tuesday September 2, 2025

Quick View- Notebook, Phones, Being responsible, Maturity, Blog, Google Classroom, Syllabus

Review: 

-Definition of Psychology

-Fundamental Attribution Error

-What does it mean that the brain is a prediction machine?

-Perspective

Circle: Either the grossest thing you have seen served in school cafeteria or your favorite cafe item.

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psychology Perspective...

Activity: How to read informational texts.  Module 0.1 in class.  Module 0.2 for homework.  I will be checking this tomorrow for a formative grade.

At your table: How do you read and remember informational texts so you you don't forget?  Power of Context!

Research SQ3R: Be prepared to present out your findings.  What is it?  How does it work? Why is it so effective?  

Activity: Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why do history teachers teach it?

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is online.  Just type in your 4 letters in the search bar.

4. Briefly write down what you agree with and 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters