Social Studies Education
  • Home
    • About
    • Submit an Inquiry
    • Contact Us
  • SSE in Context
    • Scholarly Resources
    • Digital Literacy
  • SSE Student Programs
    • NHD Project >
      • Research
      • NHD in History
      • NHD in Psychology
    • Model UN
    • Youth and Government
  • Webquests
    • NH Veterans Project
    • Civil Rights Webquest >
      • Objectives
      • Timeline
      • People of the Movement >
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Malcolm X
        • Rosa Parks
        • Orval Faubus
        • George Wallace
        • Bull Conner
    • Industrial Tycoon Webquest
  • Blog
  • SS Courses
    • US HISTORY
    • GOVERNMENT
    • PSYCHOLOGY
    • ECONOMICS >
      • Economic Evolutions
      • Economic Policy
      • Economic Problems and Solutions
    • WORLD HISTORY
    • GEOGRAPHY >
      • Global Patterns Of Human Migration
  • SSE Resources
    • Stanford History Education Group
    • Remedial Herstory
    • C3 Teachers
    • Choices Program
    • Next Gen Personal Finance
    • Civics101 Podcast
    • Edcitement
    • iCivics
    • News Matters
    • Newslea
    • Teaching Tolerance
    • GimKit (Games)

Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception

COMPELLING QUESTION: 
In this unit students will allow the presentations held in the folder to guide their understanding. Each presentation ends with an activity for a formative assignment. Presentations and activities are in numbered order. Students should do their best and submit the document to the teacher for assessment. Below are supplemental videos that may support the student as they journey through the learning. Videos are in order as they are relevant. Throughout the unit, students will build to responding to the compelling question above. The C3 inquiry is below.

Outside of class, students will read the textbook chapter on Sensation and Perception and Chapter 4 from 
The Brain that Changes Itself​ by Norman Doidge.
Annenberg Learner: Sensation and Perception
Picture
UBD Sensation
File Size: 12 kb
File Type: docx
Download File


Lesson plans


Picture

Sensation

What is sensations?
Are there thresholds to sensation?
How do we process stimuli?

Sensation PPT
File Size: 476 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File


Picture

The 7 Senses

Which of the 7 senses is the most important?
What are senses you don't notice as often as others?
How do senses affect our day to day lives?
7 Senses PPT
File Size: 29070 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File


Picture

Vision

How does vision biologically work?
What are sensory receptors and their job?
Vision PPT
File Size: 520 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File


Picture

Gestalt

What are the Gestalt principles?
How do the Gestalt principles relate to psychology?
In what ways is the Gestalt principle affecting you right now?
Gestalt PPT
File Size: 7326 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File


Picture

Perception

How can we perceive others' actions?
How can we perceive emotions of others?
To what extent is perception reality?
Perception PPT
File Size: 663 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File


Picture

Additional Resources

Possible end of unit test available
Sensation and Perception Test
File Size: 47 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

This website is the property of the Social Studies Education program at Plymouth State University.
Picture
  • Home
    • About
    • Submit an Inquiry
    • Contact Us
  • SSE in Context
    • Scholarly Resources
    • Digital Literacy
  • SSE Student Programs
    • NHD Project >
      • Research
      • NHD in History
      • NHD in Psychology
    • Model UN
    • Youth and Government
  • Webquests
    • NH Veterans Project
    • Civil Rights Webquest >
      • Objectives
      • Timeline
      • People of the Movement >
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Malcolm X
        • Rosa Parks
        • Orval Faubus
        • George Wallace
        • Bull Conner
    • Industrial Tycoon Webquest
  • Blog
  • SS Courses
    • US HISTORY
    • GOVERNMENT
    • PSYCHOLOGY
    • ECONOMICS >
      • Economic Evolutions
      • Economic Policy
      • Economic Problems and Solutions
    • WORLD HISTORY
    • GEOGRAPHY >
      • Global Patterns Of Human Migration
  • SSE Resources
    • Stanford History Education Group
    • Remedial Herstory
    • C3 Teachers
    • Choices Program
    • Next Gen Personal Finance
    • Civics101 Podcast
    • Edcitement
    • iCivics
    • News Matters
    • Newslea
    • Teaching Tolerance
    • GimKit (Games)