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This complete lesson focuses on the research methods topic of distributions and skews using the AQA A level psychology specification. This lesson is designed to be hands on and practical to enable students to really understand the importance of distributions in the real world. There are engaging tasks and practical activities throughout the lesson to keep student enjoyment high.

This complete lesson includes:

• A 31 slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed teacher notes and answers to student tasks.
• A distributions and skews student worksheet with the information they need to know for their exam.
• A 3 page ‘distribution detective’ activity worksheet for students to really cement their knowledge on identifying each distribution. This worksheet also comes with a separate teacher version with the answers.
• Measures of central tendency starter cards for the starter flip activity.
• Distribution picture cards.
• A 14 item perceived stress scale questionnaire and scoring sheet for the practical activity.
• An extension task worksheet about how distribution data can be misrepresented in the real world and the implications of this.

This full resource would take approximately 2 x 1 hour lessons to complete, however they are designed to be flexible so you can leave activities out if you need to.