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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring All Frontiers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars utilize higher thinking skills to expand their self concept to include physical, cognitive, and affective frontiers. The teacher create activities which allow students to use raw data and primary sources, as well as...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Louis L. Thurstone (1938)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a profile of psychometrician Louis L. Thurstone. Provides information on his education, career, major contributions to psychology, ideas and interests, and publications.
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Primary
York University

Classics History of Psychology: New Methods Intellectual Level of Subnormals

For Students 9th - 10th
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon's work from 1905 serves as an introduction to the classic study on intelligence by Henry L. Minton, University of Windsor.
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Other

Jean Piaget Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about Jean Piaget from this website. The site is dedicated to the study of human knowledge and development.
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Other

Thinkmap Inc.: Visual Thesaurus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The most visual thesaurus you will ever see! Watch words become alive and move in front of your eyes. This resource offers a trial version free, which only allows you to look up a certain number of words before it makes you pay....
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Other

Nova Southeastern University: Charles Spearman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Details the life and work of Charles Spearman. Sections include: Spearman and the Army, Educational and Professional Background, Contributions to the Testing Enterprise, Published Works.
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Shippensburg University

Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Jean Piaget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an excellent resource on the life and work of the Swiss educational psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
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PBS

Pbs Frontline: Sa Ts vs Iq Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is run by Frontline, and provides a nice organized site created after an episode aired about SAT testing and what it really means. Many of the controversies over intelligence testing are talked about here.
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National Institutes of Health

Spatial Short Term Memory Pinpointed in Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine this press release to understand methods used in the science of psychology to pinpoint functions of the brain.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Alfred Binet

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of French psychologist, Alfred Binet, who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale.
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PBS

Pbs: Pioneer in Intelligence Testing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by PBS, gives a brief summary of Alfred Binet's major contributions to intelligence testing.
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Other

Oikos.org: Jean Piaget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The basic reason for this international attention was the unquestionable fact that Piaget was the founding father of a branch of psychology that tries to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, how it grows and how it comes to know."...
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Handout
Donald Clark

Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article--in text and charts--explains the three learning domains devised by Benjamin Bloom.
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Article
Leaf Group

How to Adult: Stages of Development in Adolescents

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the social, cognitive, and physical development of humans during adolescence.