SECONDARY LESSON PLAN

YEAR LEVEL & SUBJECT:

Year 11 Psychology

DATE: 16/07/2015

NO. OF
LESSON DURATION: 45 minutes
STUDENTS:
45 (11A and
11C)

TOPIC/FOCUS: Jane Elliot with practice test

AUSVELS/VCE STATEMENTS: Unit 2, Area of Study 1: Outcome 1, Key Knowledge: the interrelationship between attitudes, prejudice and
discrimination (Psychology Study Guide page 19) http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/psychology/PsychologySD-2013.pdf
GOAL AND OBJECTIVES (INCLUDE LINK TO AUSVELS/VCE):
The students will be able to:

Apply knowledge of prejudice and discrimination through the context of Jane Elliot's experiment

Link Jane Elliot's experiment to increasing factors for prejudice and discrimination

SUMMARY OF RESOURCES REQUIRED:

Jacaranda Psychology for the VCE student units 1 and 2 6th edition, John Grivas and Linda Carter
Laptop/projector
Practice test copies
Jane Elliot video: http://youtu.be/Ml7eEklNwNE
LESSON PROCEDURE
TIMING

5 minutes

RESOURCES STEPS OF THE LESSON

Opening:

EXPECTED
STUDENT
REACTIONS OR
RESPONSES

TEACHER
RESPONSES TO
STUDENTS
(including consideration
of the need to adapt,
reteach or extend)

GOALS AND METHODS

OF EVALUATION
(including specific informal
and/or formal assessment
links to AusVELS/VCE)

Introduce the Jane Elliot

experiment. With regards to
11C, the year 11s have already
viewed the video therefore this
will be more of a refresher for
them the year 10s of 11C and
11A haven't viewed the video
before.
Lesson Development:
15 minutes

Projector/
laptop, video

20 minutes

11C students should be

able to contribute to a
recap of the Jane Elliot
experiment (not the year
10s).

Students
should
be
capable of contributing to
View the Jane Elliot video
discussion seeing as they
have had a lot of practice
with
prejudice,
discrimination, attitudes,
Students to discuss Jane etc.
Elliot's video, focusing on the
prejudiced and discrimination Ideas behind increasing
factors may not be
factors
immediate but will be
Main focus of discussion is possible
with
some
about the increasing factors encouragement.
evident in the experiment

Encouraging students into

discussion is important in
this lesson.
Focus on the media
analysis side of the lesson
link it to the assessment

Note: An basic introduction to

decreasing factors will be
possible, but this needs to be
kept simple will be expanded
upon the following lesson
5 minutes

Closure:
Give students practice test
which will need to be

This practice test allows

students to see what their
media analysis test will be
like is not a piece of

completed by the 21st (11C)

and the 22nd (11A)
Mention
that
decreasing
factors will be expanded upon
next lesson

assessment to be taken up by
the teacher, more just
practice
for
students.
Informal.