IB Psychology Lesson Plan — Danku YR 1 YL Week 17, Days 1-5

Weekday Monday 12/16 Tuesday 12/17 Wednesday 12/18 Thursday 12/19 Friday 12/20
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Topic The Evolution of Pheromones and
Attraction Human Attraction
Objective Discuss how Argue either for
SWBAT evolutionary or against the role
theory applies to of pheromones in
interpersonal human behavior
attraction

Administrative -Quiz on
Biological key
studies so far

Subtopics -the evolutionary -pheromones

perspective -in animals,
-Neave et al humans?
(2010)
-Ronay and
VonHippel (2010)
-Neave et al
(2010)
Guided -Key Studies Quiz -Watch the Smell
Instruction, -go over of Love video and
Activities & evaluation activity evaluate the
Differentiation -LP7: -What do research
you know about -Pheromones ppt
evolution? -Do They Exist
-Human instinct debate activity
video (assign 2 videos to
-animal equivalent each half of the
video (flamingo class)
dance, muppet -respond to “smell
example) dating article”
-research on class conversation
human attraction on BackChat
ppt
-Neave et al
(2010)
-Ronay and
VonHippel (2010)
with questions
-update key
studies

Skills & Use of -critical thinking -InThinking

Technology -InThinking -YouTube
-YouTube -research skills
-research -critical thinking
evaluation -debate skills
-BackChat
Homework -Make sure you -Make sure you
are caught up on are caught up on
all InThinking all InThinking
reading reading