AP Psychology Resources for Unit 6 Developmental Psychology

Holy moly, can you believe we are over half way through the content as we plan for and start unit six of nine.  When you get back from your break at the half-way point you're probably working on starting Developmental Psychology, at least if you follow Collegeboard's new CED you are.  If not though, that is NOT a huge deal.  Really, these units would go well in just about any order.

Development is fun and short unit.  Fun because it applies to all humans, including the ones sitting in seats in your classroom, making retention a bit more likely.  But short because well, there's just not many standards or dedicated class time to it.  But here's the thing... there are LOTS of stages and vocab terms that are unique and a bit foreign in this unit.

The great part is, if you've followed along with the pacing I've provided (and give in great detail in my AP Psych Teachers Membership), then you can see that you've got a decent bit of time to spend on Unit 6 - more so than the recommended class periods in the Course and Exam Description binder.  With that being said, development is an easy unit to spend a bit more time on because all you have to do is get your students to talk about themselves - ha!  How hard can that be?!?

Although you want to give time for kids to explore the content and apply it to themselves, giving some direct instruction in this unit with lots of examples and visuals is my biggest recommendation.  So, let me provide the usual resources to help you do that.

Development Resources

Click the images below to get to each of the three resources I provide for you, helping you focus more on building up your students, and less time on creating content from scratch ... ain't nobody got time for that.  Well, you do, but you sacrifice your evenings and weekends to do it.

You'll also find a digital review activity of a few drag and drop Google Draws that allow students to work with practice scenarios in all three of the development theorists stages - Erikson, Piaget, and Kohlberg.  I also just added a new activity to this bundle that includes a Parenting Styles profiler where they find a character (not a real person) from any show, video, book that fits the profile of each of the parenting styles, describes how they fit, and then how their child meets the description of someone who has that type of parent.  It's all included in this resource.

I share all of these activities and resources for developmental psychology in hopes that you don't have to spend hours looking for quality resources.  If you've already done that, I apologize, and hope that you don't have to do the same for resources in the future.  I would love to hear from you on what you think about my resources and maybe what other items you'd find helpful in the future.  Feel free to leave a review on TpT, or reach out on Instagram or Facebook.

I hope you have the happiest New Year (speaking of which, check out a recent template I shared as well as an activity to get students naturally reflecting in your classroom here), and that you have a great start back for the new semester.

All my best,