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Gray Step

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In this activity, learners discover that it's difficult to distinguish between two different shades of gray when they aren't separated by a boundary. Learners will be surprised when two slightly different shades of the same color look different if there is a sharp boundary between them. But if the boundary is obscured, the two shades appear indistinguishable. Use this activity to help learners explore how the eye-brain system condenses information through a process called lateral inhibition.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Exploratorium
Provider Set:: Science Snacks
Date Added:: 04/27/2023

Hemispheric Lateralization: Are You Left- or Right-Brained?

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Hemispheric Lateralization: Are You Left- or Right-Brained?

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An online brain dominance inventory provides students with information on their brain dominance and information processing style. This relates to perception and learning styles.

Subject:: Business and Communication; Economics; Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Starting Point (SERC)
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model

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Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model

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Hodges’ Health Career (Care Domains) Model provides a conceptual framework upon which users can map problems, issues and solutions across four knowledge domains: Interpersonal; Sociological; Scientific; & Political (Autonomy). The public may also be taught to use the model, enabling engagement, understanding and concordance in planning and outcome evaluation.

Brian Hodges' original notes, a resources page and links (800+) are included. Additional material on health informatics and the potential role of visualization in care assessment and evaluation can also be found.

In April 2006 a blog related to Hodges' model was created: 'Welcome to the QUAD':

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

The blog includes a bibliography and a growing archive of posts that are also tagged. There are plans to create a new website using the content management system Drupal. There is an eclectic mix posts that includes examples of using the domains of the model.

You can contact Peter Jones at h2cmng @ yahoo.co.uk and through twitter:

http://twitter.com/h2cm

Subject:: Applied Science; Arts and Humanities; Business and Communication; Communication; Computer Science; Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems; English Language Arts; Health, Medicine and Nursing; Political Science; Psychology; Social Science; Sociology
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture Notes; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Personal initiative
Provider Set:: Individual Authors
Author:: Brian E Hodges Peter Jones
Date Added:: 05/11/2023

How to develop self-awareness

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How to develop self-awareness

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Guidelines about how to structure non formal learning sessions about self-awareness for adult learners with disability: a collection of effective practical exercises.

Subject:: Education; Psychology; Social Science; Special Education
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Date Added:: 05/12/2023

Human Growth and Development: Lecture Slides

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Human Growth and Development: Lecture Slides

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This set of lecture slides was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant with an accompanying question library for tests and quizzes. The course uses the free and open Human Development sections of Boundless Psychology. Topics covered include:
Nature vs. Nurture
Piaget
Attachment
Freud
Erikson
Kohlberg
Childhood Development
Adolescent Development
Adulthood Development
Late Adulthood

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Lecture Notes
Provider:: University System of Georgia
Provider Set:: Galileo Open Learning Materials
Author:: Ellen Cotter; Gary Fisk; Judy Orton Grissett
Date Added:: 06/14/2023

Human Growth and Development: Question Library

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Human Growth and Development: Question Library

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This set of questions for use with quizzes and tests was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant with an accompanying PowerPoint lecture set. The course uses the free and open Human Development sections of Boundless Psychology. Topics covered include:

Nature vs. Nurture
Piaget
Attachment
Freud
Erikson
Kohlberg
Childhood Development
Adolescent Development
Adulthood Development
Late Adulthood

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: University System of Georgia
Provider Set:: Galileo Open Learning Materials
Author:: Ellen Cotter; Gary Fisk; Judy Orton Grissett
Date Added:: 06/22/2018

I Bacini Culturali e la progettazione sociale orientata all’Heritage-Making, tra Politiche giovanili, Innovazione sociale, Diversità culturale

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I Bacini Culturali e la progettazione sociale orientata all’Heritage-Making, tra Politiche giovanili, Innovazione sociale, Diversità culturale

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Il volume rappresenta la tappa finale della prima stagione di implementazione del Progetto ABACUS (giugno 2019 - settembre 2020), sostenuta dal finanziamento pubblico garantito dalla Regione Siciliana e dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. In tal senso, la pubblicazione raccoglie sia una sezione di materiali di discussione critica sul percorso progettuale e sui primi esiti maturati, sia una ricca parte di contributi tematici offerti da referenti istituzionali, studiosi ed esperti, docenti accademici e ricercatori, professionisti e rappresentanti di organismi del Terzo settore Sono state così affrontate ed esaminate differenti tematiche e problematiche socio-culturali e socio-economiche, e prospettive e approcci metodologico-operativi tra loro affini e convergenti, che si sviluppano a cavallo delle politiche sociali, giovanili e culturali, della progettazione sociale e culturale, dell'innovazione sociale e della diversità culturale, in differenti contesti socio-territoriali siciliani e italiani, con una particolare attenzione per quelle iniziative che rappresentano casi paradigmatici in cui le istanze istituzionali, della ricerca, dell'educazione e della formazione si incontrano con le aspettative dei pubblici differenziati e, specialmente, delle giovani generazioni, anche sull'orizzonte della innovazione dell'occupazione giovanile.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Anthropology; Applied Science; Archaeology; Architecture and Design; Art History; Arts and Humanities; Business and Communication; Career and Technical Education; Communication; Computer Science; Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems; Culinary Arts; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Ecology; Education; Educational Technology; English Language Arts; Environmental Studies; Ethnic Studies; Graphic Arts; Higher Education; History; Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers; Hydrology; Information Science; Languages; Law; Life Science; Management; Marketing; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; Public Relations; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Special Education; Visual Arts; Visual Arts and Design; World Cultures; World Languages
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Case Study; Diagram/Illustration; Primary Source; Teaching/Learning Strategy; Textbook
Date Added:: 04/05/2023

Introducing Introductory Psychology Students to Quantitative Analysis

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Introducing Introductory Psychology Students to Quantitative Analysis

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An assignment that involves introductory psychology students in the analysis a data set on personality traits and their relationship to measures of happiness and well-being.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Introduction to Human Development (GHC) (Open Course)

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Introduction to Human Development (GHC) (Open Course)

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This open course for Introduction to Human Development is an adaptation of PsychologyWiki materials and was created under a Round Nine Textbook Transformation Grant.

Authors' Description:

In our transformation of PSYC 2103 Human Development we decided to divide the content into three units.

Unit 1: Overview, History and Biological Beginnings
Unit 2: Early Childhood to Adolescence
Unit 3: Young Adulthood to Death
Each unit includes:

Learning objectives
Things to consider: questions students should be thinking about while engaging with the content
PowerPoint Presentation
Readings from a variety of open text books
Activities
Supplemental readings and videos
If you have questions or would like access to the question/test bank please contact either

Elizabeth Dose, edose@highlands.edu

Katie Bridges, kbridges@highlands.edu

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: University System of Georgia
Provider Set:: Galileo Open Learning Materials
Author:: Elizabeth Dose; Katie Bridges
Date Added:: 06/21/2018

Introduction to Psychology

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Introduction to Psychology

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Comprehensive coverage of core concepts grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research, including coverage of the DSM-5 in discussions of psychological disorders. Incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course; Textbook
Provider:: Lumen Learning
Provider Set:: Candela Courseware
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Language and Language Use

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Language and Language Use

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Humans have the capacity to use complex language, far more than any other species on Earth. We cooperate with each other to use language for communication; language is often used to communicate about and even construct and maintain our social world. Language use and human sociality are inseparable parts of Homo sapiens as a biological species.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science; World Languages
Material Type:: Module
Provider:: Diener Education Fund
Provider Set:: Noba
Date Added:: 04/05/2023

Learning About Thinking and Thinking About Learning

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Learning About Thinking and Thinking About Learning

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A recent report by the AAC&U (2002) advocates greater emphasis on educating students to be "intentional learners" who are purposeful and self-directing, empowered through intellectual and practical skills, informed by knowledge and ways of knowing, and responsible for personal actions and civic values. Self-directing learners also take initiative to diagnose their learning needs, they formulate learning goals, they select and implement learning strategies, and they evaluate their learning outcomes. It is commonly assumed that students will develop these sorts of skills, motivations, and attitudes in the course of mastering content, but this is not necessarily the case.

In an effort to help students develop these skills, Dexter Perkins and I began introducing a learning co-curriculum into our courses. This curriculum includes readings, classroom activities, discussions, and reflective journaling about learning. These activities not only provide a foundation for developing skills for life-long learning, they also provide scaffolding as students undertake greater responsibility for their own learning. Additionally, students now have a shared vocabulary about thinking and learning, they have a clearer understanding of our expectations for their learning (i.e., that student learning goals should go far beyond memorizing content), and they are more intentional about their own learning. Student motivations and attitudes have changed remarkably with the greater focus on thinking and learning. Furthermore, students more fully understand the value of their learning and their own development.

Subject:: Education; Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students

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"Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students" includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable resource offers a sensitive, respectful, and detailed training on suicide awareness and response. It can be used for two-hour synchronous training or for self-study.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: BCcampus
Author:: Barbara Johnston; Dawn Schell; Jewell Gillies; Liz Warwick
Date Added:: 07/23/2021

Lifespan Development

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Lifespan Development

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This is an updated version. Introduction to Lifespan Development (Fall 2019)
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.

Faculty members may readily adapt the course’s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.

Contributors
This course, based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:

Sarah Carter
Margaret Clark-Plaskie
Daniel Dickman
Tera Jones
Julie Lazzara
Stephanie Loalada
John R. Mather
Sonja Ann Miller
Nancee Ott
Jessica Traylor

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: Lumen Learning
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Lifespan Development

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Welcome to the study of human growth and development, commonly referred to as the womb to tomb course because it is the story of our journeys from conception to death. Human development is the study of how we change over time. Although this course is offered in psychology, this is a very interdisciplinary course. Psychologists, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and health care professionals all contribute to our knowledge of life span.

Subject:: Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Full Course; Textbook
Provider:: Lumen Learning
Provider Set:: Candela Courseware
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Marble Cattle: Lesson 3 Digging Deeper, Unit 2 Power, Structure, And Technology, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Marble Cattle: Lesson 3 Digging Deeper, Unit 2 Power, Structure, And Technology, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Marble Cattle. This is the Lesson 3 Digging Deeper activity, from Unit 2 Power, Structure and Technology, from the DIGS (Developing Individuals, Growing Stewards) AmeriCorps Curriculum from CSU. The curriculum focuses on introducing students in grades 3-5 to Colorado agriculture, industry and environmental issues. The curriculum is matched to State Standards 2021. The curriculum upon request. Visit: https://engagement.colostate.edu/programs-old/developing-individuals-growing-stewards/

Meal Satisfaction and Sustainability for Psychology

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Meal Satisfaction and Sustainability for Psychology

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To teach students about the content and impact (environmental, psychological, social) of different meals with differing levels of satisfaction, we will consider 3 meals: 1) Fast Food; 2) Least Satisfactory Meal; and 3) More satisfactory meal.

(Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)

Subject:: Biology; Life Science; Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 07/06/2017

Metacognition Exam

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Metacognition Exam

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The first exam in a class holds an opportunity for metacognitive teaching. At this point the student is open to hearing your message, especially if their outcome is less than they had hoped. This example walks through some strategies for implementing metacognitive teaching wrapped around the first exam.

Subject:: Education; Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Metacognitive Prompting Intervention - Science

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Metacognitive Prompting Intervention - Science

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The intervention, Metacogntive Prompting Intervention - Science (MPI-S), consists of checklists and questions organized into four developmental phases strategically placed into lesson plans. Each set of metacognitive prompts represent ideas from one of the seven aspects of the nature of science. Students 1) receive an exemplary model of the scientific thinking task needed in the inquiry, 2) attempt a similar scientific thinking task with support in the form of a checklist, 3) attempt a more difficult scientific thinking task with faded support and report their reasoning behind their decisions, and 4) independently accomplish the science thinking task while reflecting on its alignment with established ways of knowing in science.
Metacognitive components of the activity
The prompts are based on Zimmerman's cyclical theory of self-regulation: forethought, performance, and self reflection. Students begin a science task with forethought (prior knowledge from experiences), then perform the science task with a combination of science process skills and content knowledge, then self-reflect on the alignment of the outcome to an "expert" outcome. One pathway through the cycle develops more knowledge that is forethought in the next cycle of self-regulation. The prompts encourage students to reflect on their observations and conclusions in an inquiry activity and compare their results to the expectations of the scientific community.
Metacognitive goals for this activity:
Students are expected to compare their processes and outcomes during an inquiry activity to the ways of knowing in science. Are students aligned with the ways knowledge is constructed and validated in the scientific enterprise?
Assessing students' metacognition
Over the past three years, I have tested the prompts with an experimental design in 8th grade classes. Experimental groups significantly outperform comparison groups in content knowledge and in nature of science knowledge regardless of the years of experience of the teacher. Additionally, the prompts have shown promise in qualitative studies in encouraging pre-service teachers to design lesson plans with explicit nature of science teachable moments woven through the entire school year.

Subject:: Education; Psychology; Social Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Metropolis (1927) Restored

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Metropolis (1927) is a German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang with screenplay by Thea von Harbou. It was adapted with Lang from von Harbou's novel (1925) also called Metropolis. It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia that is sharply divided between the working class and elite. Original Score by Gottfried Huppertz. Freder the son of the wealthy and powerful city master, Joh Fredersen, falls in love with Maria, a prophetic figure to the working class. The film length was cut back after its original German premiere, with restoration efforts finding footage recovered from Argentina and New Zealand to bring it close its original. The film has a fairy tale like plot of uniting the classes with an ending title reading "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart." It is considered to be one of the best 100 films of all time. Visit this link to see a shortened version with the Music score composed by: Giorgio Moroder, Gottfried Huppertz, Thomas Köner, Ronnie Cramer.