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Martin Hagger is Professor of Psychology at Curtin University. His areas of expertise are social, health, sport and exercise psychology. He is involved in numerous research projects nationally and internationally with a focus on motivation and behaviour change. He is currently leading projects in drugs in sport, promoting physical activity and healthy diet, understanding the mechanisms of willpower and self-control, and reducing binge drinking and the prevalence of smoking. At the highest level, athletes are well-matched in terms of their physical abilities, conditioning, and skill level. But often that is not enough to win and perform on the biggest of stages like the Olympic games. Developing strategies and techniques to get athletes minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance is increasingly important for sports teams and coaches. Martin will provide an overview of the kinds of techniques that elite athletes use to prepare psychologically for their sport, give details of the scientific research into these techniques and how they work, and how the techniques might be used by competitive athetes and coaches to maximise performance.

This website is fantastic, because it provides teachers with resources as well as teaching and learning activities for each level of analysis. The website is rich with resources and also provides content on research methods. This is useful for me, because i attempt to fuse research methods into each level of analysis so that students have a thorough understanding of research methods.

As a new teacher of psych, this is the best website and so many ideas and essential tips.

Martin Hagger is Professor of Psychology at Curtin University. His areas of expertise are social, health, sport and exercise psychology. He is involved in numerous research projects nationally and internationally with a focus on motivation and behaviour change. He is currently leading projects in drugs in sport, promoting physical activity and healthy diet, understanding the mechanisms of willpower and self-control, and reducing binge drinking and the prevalence of smoking. At the highest level, athletes are well-matched in terms of their physical abilities, conditioning, and skill level. But often that is not enough to win and perform on the biggest of stages like the Olympic games. Developing strategies and techniques to get athletes minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance is increasingly important for sports teams and coaches. Martin will provide an overview of the kinds of techniques that elite athletes use to prepare psychologically for their sport, give details of the scientific research into these techniques and how they work, and how the techniques might be used by competitive athetes and coaches to maximise performance.

This section of the site is dedicated to teaching ideas and student support for the Sociocultural level of analysis. Attribution skits Critically thinking about compliance techniques Critically thinking about culture Critically thinking about the SCLOA Explaining Abu Ghraib Evaluating the Stanford Prison Study Gender differences content analysis Group decision making

Each book review postings includes a brief explanation of the book, a related classroom activity, key psychological concepts referenced in the book, and other resources such as websites or podcasts.

Hodder education site with activities and useful websites

Beginners activities about neuronal communication etc

This websites offers great idea for activities to use in Psychology and is a great place for teachers to come together and discuss resources.

BBC center where you can find resources, surveys, interesting activities related to Psychology

This website is devoted to the teaching of Social Psychology, and it is full of links to other websites, videos, and teaching resources. It beautifully organizes these resources under topic headings such as "Attraction and Relationships" and "Conformity".

Activities, assignments, videos, examples, and articles related to various social psychology concepts

This is the first website I found and it is helpful for the assessments. THe organziaing tools are particularly helpful.

john crane's webstite is wonderful. it's a great resource.

This site is used for reviewing IB psychology content. It offers resources for teaching and class activities.

Although it's quite lengthy, the APA site gives detailed explanations of the ethics that are required for psychological research. The information here serves as a good background to the ethics that come up in many of IAs that are students choose.

The American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct provides guidance for psychologists in professional, scientific and educational roles. The Ethics Code also outlines standards of professional conduct for APA members and student affiliates.

Many professional organizations produce an ethical code of conduct. Violations of this code can result in the loss of license and professional membership. Exposing students to these codes helps them understand the seriousness and importance of ethical conduct.

An interactive 'Mouse Party' to show the effects of different drugs on the brain. Fun activity when teaching substance abuse in the Health Option for Paper 2

For drug addiction, states of consciousness unit

This is quite simplified in mechanic however is a good introductory exercise for the effects of various drugs on the brain.

A host of activities for all topics as well as various psychology news and links. Easily searchable with highly reputable information.

This website gives a lot of practices and ideas for teacher. It is a lot of help!

The home page of thinkib.net IB Psychology. Browse the last pages, blog posts, check the sitemap, get some Teaching Materials and share knowledge with the thinkib.net IB community. It's $240 per year but well worth the fee, especially if you are new to IB Psych.

Totally agree. It's well worth the money. My school paid for it last year and I'm hoping it will continue to pay for it the next year as well. The website complements the Oxford Study Guide

The APA/TOPSS released a manual for new psychology teachers, and it looks like it's full of great resources! See the announcement below for details. "New high school psychology teachers may have a number of questions about how to proceed with instruction in their first psychology teaching assignment.

yes. link to this page and check in every few days, it is slow in the summer but has great moderators and loads of information, you can also look at the archives by topic, it has been around for about 7 years.

also check out the lesson plans from TOPSS (you do need to be a member $50 per year), there is one are lesson plan available on Memory to give a sample but there is an outline, activities and resources for every chapter of the intro course

Scientists turn to vaccines to curb the growing opioid epidemic. A good overview of drug addiction, the involvement of dopamine and glutamate, and what happens to the brain of an addict (loss of pleasure from normal activities, the need to increase dosage to stave off anxiety and despair, and impairment of dopamine function in prefrontal cortex hence inability to make good decisions).

By age 25, Patrick Schnur had cycled through a series of treatment programs, trying different medications to kick his heroin habit. But the drugs posed problems too: Vivitrol injections were painful and created intense heroin cravings as the drug wore off. Suboxone left him drowsy, depressed and unable to study or go running like he wanted to.

Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in learning about the nervous system and brain with hands on activities, experiments and information.