World History & AP Psychology

Week of: 2/19/24

Honors World History

AP Psychology

Monday

President’s Day - no school 

President’s Day - no school 

Tuesday 

Standard(s): SSWH8 Describe the diverse characteristics of societies in Central and South America. a: Explain the rise and fall of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca Empires. b. Compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology. 

• LT: I will compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires.

• SC: I can explain how geography impacted the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can explain the rise of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can identify the religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology of each empire. I can explain the decline of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. 

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; Flocabulary video “Mesoamerica” with questions; History Mystery - The Maya Files

Resources: Flocabulary

Standard(s): Topic 4.1 - Introduction to learning

• LT: Identify the contributions of key researchers in the psychology of learning. Interpret graphs that exhibit the results of learning experiments. Describe the essential characteristics of insight learning, latent learning, and social learning. Apply learning principles to explain emotional learning, taste aversion, superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness. Provide examples of how biological constraints create learning predispositions.

• SC: Explain the contributions of Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, Robert Rescorla, B.F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Edward Tolman, John B. Watson, and John Garcia. Define acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, stimulus discrimination, higher-order learning, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral/conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, & contingencies. 

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; classical conditioning notes

Resources: Unit 4 Google Slides; AMSCO AP Psychology textbook, teacher-created Quizlet vocabulary decks

Wednesday 

Standard(s): SSWH8 Describe the diverse characteristics of societies in Central and South America. a: Explain the rise and fall of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca Empires. b. Compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology. 

• LT: I will compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires.

• SC: I can explain how geography impacted the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can explain the rise of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can identify the religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology of each empire. I can explain the decline of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. 

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; Questions stems activator; Aztec documentary with comprehension questions

Resources: History Channel, “Engineering an Empire - the Aztec” documentary 

Standard(s): Topics 4.1 & 4.2 - Introduction to learning & Classical Conditioning, pt. 1 

• LT: Identify the contributions of key researchers in the psychology of learning. Interpret graphs that exhibit the results of learning experiments. Describe the essential characteristics of insight learning, latent learning, and social learning. Apply learning principles to explain emotional learning, taste aversion, superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness. Provide examples of how biological constraints create learning predispositions. Describe basic classical conditioning phenomena. Distinguish general differences between principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.

• SC: Explain the contributions of Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, Robert Rescorla, B.F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Edward Tolman, John B. Watson, and John Garcia. Define acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, stimulus discrimination, higher-order learning, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral/conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, & contingencies. 

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; activity- balloon popping demonstration; work on homework notes; make-up any tests

Resources: Unit 4 Google Slides; AMSCO AP Psychology textbook, teacher-created Quizlet vocabulary decks

Thursday - February 1st

Standard(s): SSWH8 Describe the diverse characteristics of societies in Central and South America. a: Explain the rise and fall of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca Empires. b. Compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology. 

• LT: I will compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires.

• SC: I can explain how geography impacted the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can explain the rise of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. I can identify the religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology of each empire. I can explain the decline of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires. 

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; revisit Questions stems (can we answer some of the questions we asked yesterday now that we know more information about the Aztec?); standard readings questions; exit ticket 

Resources: Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies Teacher Notes (modified)

Standard(s): Topic 4.2 - Classical Conditioning, pt. 2 

• LT: Describe basic classical conditioning phenomena. Distinguish general differences between principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.

• SC: Define acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, stimulus discrimination, higher-order learning, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral/conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, & contingencies. 

Lesson/Activity: VOCABULARY QUIZ BEFORE LUNCH; notes; activity- salivating to music

Resources: TOPSS lesson plans and activities; Google Slides, AMSCO AP Psychology textbook, teacher-created Quizlet vocabulary decks

Friday 

Standard(s): SSWH12 Describe the development and contributions of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. a. Describe the development and geographical extent of the Ottoman, Safavid, and the Mughal Empires. b. Describe the cultural contributions of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. 

• LT: I will describe the contributions of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. 

• SC: I can identify where the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were located. I can explain why the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires are also known as the “gunpowder empires.” I can explain how the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires’ use of gunpowder impacted the western world. I can explain how these empires influenced European exploration of the Americas.  

Lesson/Activity: Pirate Prep; notes

Resources: 

Standard(s): Topic 4.3 - Operant Conditioning

• LT: Predict the effects of operant conditioning. Predict how practice, schedules of reinforcement, other aspects of reinforcement, and motivation will influence quality of learning.

• SC: Define positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, & negative punishment

Lesson/Activity: CLASSICAL CONDITIONING QUIZ BEFORE LUNCH; notes; shaping demonstration; work on project

Resources: TOPSS lesson plans and activities; Google Slides, AMSCO AP Psychology textbook, teacher-created Quizlet vocabulary decks