LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT

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IDeveloped and Produced by the Teachers of psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) of the American Psychological Association, December 2012LIFE span DEVELOPMENTa six-unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachersSusan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherstiv life span DeveLopmenta six-unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachersThis unit is a revision of the original TOPSS Unit Lesson Plan on DEVELOPMENT , originally prepared by Lynne Fellers, Nancy Grayson, Michael Sullivan, and Martha Whitacre and edited by Charles T. Blair-Broeker at the Texas A&M-NSF Summer Institute for the Teaching of AP and Honors psychology in July unit is aligned to the following content standards of the National Standards for High School psychology Curricula (APA, 2011):Standard Area: life span DevelopmentContent Standards:After concluding this unit, students understand:1.

Developmental psychology is increasingly becoming a psychology of the life 3 span rather than being limited to the psychology of infancy to adolescence. The goal of this unit plan is to present ideas that will help teachers provide students with a broad-based, contemporary view of the field that will also give them ...

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