Wired to Respond | Psychology Unit Gr 10-12 | EN/ES/HT | SpEd
Wired to Respond - a Psychology unit on biology and behavior - the brain, neurons and the nervous system - built on sourced documents: NINDS Brain Basics pages, a peer-reviewed paper on the action potential, a build-a-model neuron lab, a placard case file on Phineas Gage, EEG and fMRI, a fishbowl seminar at the case desk, and a cold document (the 2012 Gage connectivity study) on test day, Special Education and English Learner edition. Six class periods (five teaching days and a test day). Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table.
Day 1 - Cells That Carry Messages
Day 2 - Signals Jump the Gap
Day 3 - Experts in One Brain
Day 4 - Case File: Gage, EEG and fMRI
Day 5 - The Circle: The Case Desk
Day 6 - A Document You Have Not Read (unit test)
Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, a partner discussion, and an Exit Ticket. Days 1-3 each read a sourced document with the SOURCE IT routine (who wrote it, when, for whom, and why); Day 2 is a build-a-model neuron lab, Day 4 the placard case file, Day 5 the fishbowl seminar, Day 6 the test.
Documents are U.S. government pages (NINDS/NIH) and CC BY open-access papers, quoted with their dates and listed in the sources file; every invented number says SAMPLE DATA (invented). The brain, scan and neuron-model pictures are illustrations created for the unit (not photographs); the Cajal drawing and the Gage portrait are real historical images. Mental illness and drug treatment are not taught; nothing in the unit is medical advice.
WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (3 ZIP files, one per language; 37 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file):
- 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (118 slides per language)
- 18 student papers (.docx), one per day per language
- 3 unit tests (.docx), one per language, plus 3 answer keys
- 3 argument rubrics (.docx), one per language
- 1 teacher guide (.docx, English)
- a README and a sources/rights file
(The English ZIP also holds the teacher guide, README and sources/rights file.)
Unit test: 36 points (Part A 16 multiple-choice, Part B 8 on a cold document, Part C 12 in four argument boxes), with an argument rubric.
Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper.
Teacher supplies: Nothing.
PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent social studies teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students.
Single-teacher license.
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Wired to Respond | Psychology Unit Gr 10-12 | EN/ES/HT | SpEd
Wired to Respond - a Psychology unit on biology and behavior - the brain, neurons and the nervous system - built on sourced documents: NINDS Brain Basics pages, a peer-reviewed paper on the action potential, a build-a-model neuron lab, a placard case file on Phineas Gage, EEG and fMRI, a fishbowl seminar at the case desk, and a cold document (the 2012 Gage connectivity study) on test day, Special Education and English Learner edition. Six class periods (five teaching days and a test day). Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table.
Day 1 - Cells That Carry Messages
Day 2 - Signals Jump the Gap
Day 3 - Experts in One Brain
Day 4 - Case File: Gage, EEG and fMRI
Day 5 - The Circle: The Case Desk
Day 6 - A Document You Have Not Read (unit test)
Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, a partner discussion, and an Exit Ticket. Days 1-3 each read a sourced document with the SOURCE IT routine (who wrote it, when, for whom, and why); Day 2 is a build-a-model neuron lab, Day 4 the placard case file, Day 5 the fishbowl seminar, Day 6 the test.
Documents are U.S. government pages (NINDS/NIH) and CC BY open-access papers, quoted with their dates and listed in the sources file; every invented number says SAMPLE DATA (invented). The brain, scan and neuron-model pictures are illustrations created for the unit (not photographs); the Cajal drawing and the Gage portrait are real historical images. Mental illness and drug treatment are not taught; nothing in the unit is medical advice.
WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (3 ZIP files, one per language; 37 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file):
- 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (118 slides per language)
- 18 student papers (.docx), one per day per language
- 3 unit tests (.docx), one per language, plus 3 answer keys
- 3 argument rubrics (.docx), one per language
- 1 teacher guide (.docx, English)
- a README and a sources/rights file
(The English ZIP also holds the teacher guide, README and sources/rights file.)
Unit test: 36 points (Part A 16 multiple-choice, Part B 8 on a cold document, Part C 12 in four argument boxes), with an argument rubric.
Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper.
Teacher supplies: Nothing.
PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent social studies teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students.
Single-teacher license.
Product Details
Grade Levels: Grade 10, Senior School
Subject: Social Sciences
Resource Type: Assessments, Unit Plans, Lessons
Number of Pages: 354
Teacher Answer Key: Yes
File Formats Included:
DOCX
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PPTX
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ZIP
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