High School Psychology Lessons

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Psychology Lesson: Mental Health Ice Bucket Challenge 2025
Introduction to High School Psychology Lessons (3)

  1. Psychology Pre-Test
  2. Psychology Day #1: Dead Poet’s Society: Create a Bucket List!
  3. Coming October 3rd Create a Psychology Class “Hall of Fame”

The Last Lecture

  1. The Last Lecture: Viewing Guide

Learning (15)

  1. What I Have Learned
  2. Psychology Lesson: Classical Conditioning & Show and Tell
  3. Pavlov’s Dog Experiment: Amazing Nobel Prize Psychology Lesson!
  4. Psychology Lesson: Classical Conditioning Hopping Activity
  5. Psychology: Video Clips for Teaching Classical Conditioning
  6. The Office and Classical Conditioning
  7. Seabiscut: Applied Psychology using Classical Conditioning
  8. Pavlov’s Dog & Classical Conditioning: Great Video Clip
  9. Little Albert Experiment & Classical Conditioning
  10. Guest Blog: Teaching Classical Conditioning to High School Students
  11. Psychology Lesson: Personal Learning Experiences
  12. Unique Psychology Lesson: Learning How to Catch Quarters
  13. Psychology Lesson: Learned Helplessness
  14. Classical Conditioning Quiz
  15. Harvard Experiment: You are the Best
  16. 3 Factors That Affect Learning

The Brain (2)

  1. Psychology DVD: The Teenage Brain: A World of Their Own
  2. Severed Corpus Callosum Videos
  3. Phineas Gage: GREAT CLIP

Memory (10)

  1. Psychology Lesson: Short-Term Memory Test
  2. Mnemonic Devices for Teaching
  3. Mnemonic Devices for Classical Conditioning
  4. Psychology Lesson: Short-Term Memory & Telephone Sentences
  5. Psychology Lessons: “Memories of….”
  6. Psychology Lesson: Memory Bank
  7. Great Oprah Video: Repressed Memories & Multiple Personality Disorder
  8. “Bad” Psychology Lesson: Feature Extraction & U2
  9. Kenny Chesney “I Go Back”: Psychology, Songs, & Memories
  10. Selective Attention: 2 Great Awareness Tests
  11. Psychology Lesson: Chunking in Short-Term Memory
  12. Psychology Interactive: PsychInquiry Chunking in Short-Term Memory
  13. Psychology Interactive: PsychInquiry Implicit Memory
  14. Psychology Interactive: The Tip-of-the-Tongue Experience

Thought (3)

  1. Psychology Lesson: A Thinking Quiz
  2. Psychology Lesson: Get U2 on Stage!
  3. Psychology Lesson: Thought “If…..”

Motivation and Emotion (9)

  1. Michael Biasini: Perfectly Normal
  2. Psychology Lesson: SMILE & Make Someone’s Day
  3. Eric Thomas: How Bad Do You Want It?
  4. Mr. B: A Truly Amazing Teacher
  5. Mattie Stepanek: A Great Inspirational Story
  6. Excellent End of the Year Lesson: Too Busy for a Friend
  7. Michael Jordan: NBA Hall of Fame Speech
  8. Motivation and 3 Ounces (by Ron White)
  9. Emotions: Mother Discusses Losing 10-year-old son to a gun accident
  10. Too Busy for a Friend (Great End of the Year Activity)
  11. Psychology Lesson: Grandparent Appreciation Day

Sensation and Perception (3)

  1. Is Spelling REALLY important? Read this!
  2. The Phaonmneal Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid
  3. Perception Stories
  4. The Mountain Story: Our Lives are a Reflection of our Actions

Great Motivational Speeches (7)

  1. Dennis Lehane: It’s About Honor
  2. Michael Jordan: NBA Hall of Fame Speech
  3. Abraham Lincoln: “I Do the Best I Know How”
  4. Eric Thomas: How Bad Do You Want It?
  5. Amazing Motivational Speech: “Give Me ALL You’ve Got!”
  6. Jimmy V Speech: 1993 Jim Valvano ESPY Speech
  7. The Jimmy V Speech: Great Classroom Activities

Great Commencement Speeches

  1. “You’re Not Special” David McCulloch Commencement Speech

Great Books for Psychology (3)

  1. The Last Lecture is a Great Teaching Tool!
  2. 25 Activities for Teachers to Use with The Last Lecture
  3. A Great Teaching Resource: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Great DVDs for Psychology (3)

  1. Teaching Friday Night Lights to High School Students
  2. Oprah’s 20th Anniversary DVD: A Great Psychology Resource
  3. Psychology DVD: A Child’s Brain: From Syllable to Sound
  4. Pay It Forward: A Great DVD for Teens

Write it Forward: Letters of Appreciation

  1. Coming September 12th Write it Forward: Letter of Appreciation
  2. September 7th U.S. History Lesson: Grandparents Day Lesson
  3. Psychology Lesson: Great Feedback from Just 1 Letter!
  4. Write it Forward! Great Feedback from Strangers
  5. Coming October 2nd: World Smile Day (October 3rd)
  6. World Smile Day Jokes