Classroom Activities for Teaching Psychology

This activity is designed to get students to acknowledge the binary stereotypes they hold regarding gender.

This activity will help students to identify national, state, local, and school resources for gender identity support.

This activity will help students to identify school resources for support.

Students will explore historical examples of gender expression fluidity and reflect on how gender expression has changed over time.

This activity highlights the complexity of gender as a construct.

This activity invites students to consider examples of and messages about male, female, and nonbinary individuals through print and electronic media.

The students will take the VIA Youth Inventory in order to identify their strengths and connect their strengths to examples in their own lives.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts of growth mindset; grit; and resilience explore the relationship between the concepts.

These activities can help students further explore and understand character strengths.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts of growth mindset, grit, and resilience and explore the relationship between the concepts through children's books.

In this activity; students will identify where they currently fall on the fixed to growth mindset continuum.

Students are asked to explore behaviors that can support individual and community well-being through investigation and reporting.

This test of optimism will help your students see their overall levels of optimism.

This activity addresses mindfulness and the benefits that mindfulness can have on well-being.

Students will investigate the six variables used to measure happiness.

Students will learn about the benefits of practicing gratitude.

Introduction to the idea of self-regulation and reprogramming habits by identifying different elements associatedwith habit formation and habit change.

Mindfulness activities, such as meditation and rhythmic exercise that encourages a flow of repetitive motion, can lead to an alteration in the brain’s structure.

Students will learn how habits are developed when the brain strengthens associations between cues, routines, and rewards.

In this activity; students will complete a short inventory designed to assess their current levels of gratitude among three dimensions.

In this activity; the students will be introduced to the concept of character strengths and the different virtues.

This activity asks students to look at different terms and sort them into ways of measuring in psychological research.

Students will participate in an inventory measuring their 'grittiness. They will create a connection between the theory of grit and their own lives.

Students will participate in an activity designed to demonstrate neuroplasticity, how the brain rapidly adapts to learning new skills.

Activities and lesson plans for teachers, including two-day lesson plans from recent past winners of the APA TOPSS Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Awards.