TEAM-UP PARTNER ACTIVITY: Speed Dating - Meet at least two other people and discuss the questions on the board. When the timer goes off, find another two people and discuss the new set of questions.

LEARNING TARGETS:

• You will know where you sit
• We will be introduced to one another and learn the names of at least three people you did not previously know.
• Know the formal definition for psychology and the scope of this course
• You will know what to expect from this course
• Know when upcoming tests and assignments will be due
• Receive your textbooks and sign up for the online textbook if you want to use it.
• Sign up for Google Classroom

• Find Your Seat! - See Seating Chart
  • Introduce yourself to the people around you!
    
    
• Good Things From this Summer!
• Did the start of school make you feel like this? Sign of the Times Back to School Video
• What can I expect from this Course? - Making sure this is the class you are expecting
  • What sort of things does a psychologist study?
• Sign in to our Google Classroom. - Not already assigned to the class? Use your hour's class invite code to get in.
• Go over how to navigate our weekly lessons and our assignments for each week.
  
  
• Pass out textbooks.  Fill out Textbook Number Google Form and Information Sheet. Turn in when finished.
  • Want the online edition? (Instructions for signing up) Click HERE to find an activation code to set up your online textbook. (We are waiting to set this up)
  • If you would like to buy your own copy to write or highlight in, please feel free to do so! Search for one online to find a copy: Myers Psychology for AP - 4th edition

• Today's Launch Quote: "You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life." - Herbie Hancock

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Both you and your parents should read the Letter to Parents, watch the tutorial of our website (also at the top of this page) & then sign your A.P. Student/Parent Agreement (3 pts) due tomorrow.
• Sign up for our Google Classroom (see above for instructions)
• Fill out Textbook Number Google Form and Information Sheet. Turn in when finished.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Modules 0.1-0.2 (pg. 0-2 thru 0-13) in your Meyer's Textbook. Take your own notes using the Module Learning Objectives at the beginning of the chapter OR use our Study Outline on our Google Classroom to guide your notetaking. Have your notes with you for FRIDAY.
• Complete How to Study Worksheet in your Google Classroom - due MONDAY.
• Create your This is MY Life! Google Slideshow in your Google Classroom- due TUESDAY.
  • Print your final slide "Collage with your Name & Picture" in color.
  • How to Print Your Slide in Landscape Position
  
  

TODAY'S ACTIVITY/QUESTION:

• Time Capsule - Complete your time capsule and afterwards go around to at least 4 people you haven't met yet and compare your sheets. Turn in when you finish.
• Complete your Study Habits Self-Assessment
• What did the Study Habits Self-Assessment show you about your own study habits

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Find at least two studying tips that will be helpful for you in this class
• Sign up for AP Classroom
• Just who the heck is Mr. Portenga? Know what to do on your This is My Life Slideshow Presentation
• You will be able to navigate through our class website finding useful links and sites to help you with your studying.

• Turn in your signed A.P. Student/Parent Agreement (3 pts)
• Please put your cell phone in the caddy. Choose your number and write your full name on this Cell Phone Sleeve Assignment Sheet

• This is My Life Slideshow Presentation - Mr. P (example)

• Sign up/into your College Board AP Account:
  • If you are creating an account, use your personal email as your contact.
  • Follow these Instructions to join your AP Class Section
  • Use these Course Codes to join our class
  • Having trouble logging into your account? Click HERE to get info on how to contact the College Board for help.
  
  
• Bookmark these resources:
  • Textbook study resources website - This site has a variety of useful resources like: flashcards, learning simulations & lecture review videos.
  • All Powerpoints from in-class notes will be posted when we finish a chapter on the Psych Happens! Class Resources Page
  • Psych Weblinks Page - Practice tests, videos, career links, etc...
    
    
• Quick overview of Unit O: Intro to Psychological Science Practices - Our first unit.
  

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Modules 0.1-0.2 (pg. 0-2 thru 0-13) in your Meyer's Textbook. Take your own notes using the Module Learning Objectives at the beginning of the chapter OR use our Study Outline on our Google Classroom to guide your notetaking. Have your notes with you for FRIDAY.
• Sign up for our Google Classroom & AP Classroom if you haven't already (see above for instructions)
• If you didn't do this already...
  • Sign up/into your College Board AP Account:
    • If you are creating an account, use your personal email as your contact.
    • Follow these Instructions to join your AP Class Section
    • Use these Course Codes to join our class
    • Having trouble logging into your account? Click HERE to get info on how to contact the College Board for help.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Modules 0.1-0.2 (pg. 0-2 thru 0-13) in your Meyer's Textbook. Take your own notes using the Module Learning Objectives at the beginning of the chapter OR use our Study Outline on our Google Classroom to guide your notetaking. Have your notes with you for FRIDAY.
• Complete How to Study Worksheet in your Google Classroom - due MONDAY.
• Create your This is MY Life! Google Slideshow in your Google Classroom- due TUESDAY.
  • Print your final slide "Collage with your Name & Picture" in color.
  • How to Print Your Slide in Landscape Position
    

TODAY'S ACTIVITY/QUESTION:

Read the following links. After reading them, turn to someone you haven't yet met in class and tell them one piece of advice that will be useful to you as you take this class this semester:

• A letter of advice to you from past year’s students.
• Studying Tips – some ways to increase your grades and efficiency in studying

LEARNING TARGETS:

• You will be familiar with the class procedures and policies
• You will be able to login and create a student profile on our Quia Review Site for online quizzes and tests
• Q & A on Rules and Procedures
• Pick up your bathroom passes and HW pass today and understand how to use them.

AGENDA:

• Mr. P demonstrates an amazing ability...
  
  
• Go over our TEAM GH Social Contract
  • Discuss as a class. What do the terms mean to you?
  • Sign our our TEAM GH Social Contract.

• Grab Your 2 Bathroom Passes and 2 HW Passes. Put your name on them now!!!

• A.P. Psych Quia Review Site - Introduction to the online portion of this course
• Join the Course:  Click on Your Hour (Directions for Logging In)
• Edit Your Profile: - See directions above on how to do this.  Be sure to choose a password you will NOT forget & use your school email for sign up.
  
  COMPLETE IN QUIA IN CLASS TODAY:
• Who is Mr. Portenga? A quick online Quia Quiz to better know your psych teacher.
• How much do you know about psychology? (secret word is GHHS)
• Class Rules and Procedures Quiz (Quia Quiz for home) – use our class website (just open in a separate window) as you take it. Use the Rules and Procedures Page as well as the syllabus in the About this Class drop down menu in the top left side of this page.
  

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish if you haven't already... Class Rules and Procedures Quiz (Quia Quiz for home) – use our class website (just open in a separate window) as you take it. Use the Rules and Procedures Page as well as the syllabus in the About this Class drop down menu in the top left side of this page.
• Read Modules 0.1-0.2 (pg. 0-2 thru 0-13) in your Meyer's Textbook. Take your own notes using the Module Learning Objectives at the beginning of the chapter OR use our Study Outline on our Google Classroom to guide your notetaking. Have your notes with you for Tomorrow.
• If you haven't already:
  • Sign up/into your College Board AP Account:
    • If you are creating an account, use your personal email as your contact.
    • Follow these Instructions to join your AP Class Section
    • Use these Course Codes to join our class
    • Having trouble logging into your account? Click HERE to get info on how to contact the College Board for help.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Complete How to Study Worksheet in your Google Classroom - due MONDAY.
• Create your This is MY Life! Google Slideshow in your Google Classroom- due TUESDAY.
  • Print your final slide "Collage with your Name & Picture" in color.
  • How to Print Your Slide in Landscape Position
    

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Imagine we are flipping a coin and the results are 1) heads, 2) tails, 3) tails, 4) tails, 5) tails. If we flip the coin again, guess what the next toss result would be.

• Test the limits of your Common Sense with... Brain Games: COMMON SENSE

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Module 0.1:
  • Explain how psychology is a science.
  • Describe the 3 key elements of the scientific attitude and how they support scientific inquiry.
• Module 0.2:
  • Explain how critical thinking feeds a scientific attitude & smarter thinking for everyday life.

AGENDA:

• How did you do on the How Much do You Know About Psychology Quiz in Quia?
  • What did you estimate your score would be? How accurate were you?
    
    
• Module 0.1: The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, & Developing Arguments (Virtual Lecture - 8 min)
• Module 0.2: The Need for Psychological Science: (Virtual Lecture 0:00-11:19)
  • Check your notes as we cover them together.
  • Add examples of the key terms/concepts to help you better understand them for the test.
  
  
• REVIEW TODAY'S LESSON ON YOUR OWN: :
  • Review today's lesson with these Module 4 Flashcards
  • Thinking Like a Scientist with this short video by Sparkling Psychology Star (2 min)
  • Watch this short video on Scientific Method & Empirical Evidence & Operational Defintion (2 min)
  • Review this entire lesson with help of another teacher... Mr. Sinn (7 min)
    
    
• Have some fun with what we've learned...
  (Episode 1:  Season 5:  Disc 1)
  • 0:00  Game 1  Rope Trick Through the Neck - Common Sense is Everyday Knowledge You Share With Most People or watch these magic tricks (4 min)
  • 2:40  Game 2  Watermelon & Egg 4 Story Drop - Which will hit first?   -   Hit at the same time - Gravity affects things in the same way.
  • 5:20  Game 3  Guess the Number of Gum Balls - Using the guesses of everyone you can find the average and get a close estimate.
  • 15:15  Game 5    3 Rooms to Escape to - Assassins, Lions, Fire  -  Common Sense can lead us to nonsense.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read and Take Notes on Module 0.3: The Scientific Method (pg. 0-14 - 0-21) - due MONDAY. (Need online access to the book? Click HERE for instructions)
• Complete How to Study Worksheet in your Google Classroom - due MONDAY.
• Create your This is MY Life! Google Slideshow in your Google Classroom- due TUESDAY.
  • Print your final slide "Collage with your Name & Picture" in color.
  • How to Print Your Slide in Landscape Position

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: Choose a podcast or video below and complete this Podcast Summary Sheet. + 1 points (2 point limit per unit)
  • Amazing Randi's Project Alpha fooled scientists into thinking that they had psychic powers. How did they do it? (Intro to Project Alpha 5 min, Video 1 (9 min) Video 2 - 10 min)
  • Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine explains why we deceive ourselves in two TED Talks. (Pick up to 2 to do = +1 points each)
    • Why People Believe in Weird Things (13 min)
    • The Pattern Behind Self Deception (19 min)
    • The Baloney Detection Kit (14 min)
  • RadioLab: A Very Lucky Wind. Coincidence? (20 min) Should we read too much into it? - Hear this crazy story of coincidence
  • RadioLab: Seeking Patterns (listen to first part up to 6:40 min) - Is there such a thing as the "hot hand" when it comes to shooting in basketball?