It might be good to take a look at the "Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology" series. they generally contain activities for learning and memory, cognition, volume 4 has direct reference to biopsychology and animal behavior, also they have a special topics section which often has biopsychology related activities.
Of course there is the domino demo of the action potential (you could get them to do it themselves or you could, and they can reflect on everything they know about neural communication and what the model addresses, does not address). There is another where students "Measure the speed of thought" by hands grasping shoulders (a variation is hands grasping ankles (a reaction time demonstration)). There is the "portable brain model" by Susan J. Shapiro (aids learning the parts of the brain, not sure if it is an "activity" really) You could give them different (or the same) crosswords to fill in and then class discussion/answer time. Have the groups each make a jigsaw puzzle of the brain/parts of the brain etc and then exchange puzzles. Time each group on putting together a puzzle from another group. But it does seem for some reason biopsychology is under-represented as far as published activities go. --Mike On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Linda Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > For the first time next fall my Biopsych class of 50 is scheduled to be > held in a classroom with round tables that seat 5-6 students each instead of > your typical fixed seating lecture room. Although I typically do a few group > activities in this class during a semester, I'd like to come up with several > more given the more conducive classroom situation. Do any of you have > suggestions for such activities? > > Linda Walsh > University of Northern Iowa > Cedar Falls, IA > [email protected] > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
