DP Psychology, ready to teach.
Lesson plans, worksheets and mark schemes across the DP Psychology syllabus, structured across the core approaches, four contexts, HL extensions, and key concepts — with a lesson plan, student worksheet, and mark scheme for each of the 50 lessons.
One pack. Everything you need to teach the course.
20 topics, one coherent course.
Open any unit to see its topic map and the skills students build.
Unit 1Core — Approaches to Understanding Behaviour
The biological, cognitive, and sociocultural approaches to psychology, built on a foundation of research methodology and the assessment objectives.
Across 12 lessons and 4 topics, this unit establishes the three approaches that underpin the entire DP Psychology course. Students examine experimental and non-experimental research designs, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and the criteria of reliability, validity, generalizability, and bias before turning to the biological, cognitive, and sociocultural explanations of behaviour. Key concepts — Evidence, Measurement, Bias, Behaviour, Cognition, and Perspectives — are introduced here and carried forward throughout the course.
Skills & assessment. Lessons develop the command-term skills required across all papers: from defining and explaining, to analysing research studies and applying theoretical models, to evaluating the strengths and limitations of each approach. Structured practice tasks and mark schemes accompany every lesson, providing a clear benchmark for exam-style responses at both SL and HL.
Unit 2Contexts
The three approaches applied to four real-world contexts — Health & Well-being, Human Development, Human Relationships, and Learning & Cognition — across 15 structured lessons.
Across 15 lessons and 4 topics, students apply the biological, cognitive, and sociocultural approaches to the four DP Psychology contexts. Topics span the determinants of physical and mental health, brain maturation and cognitive development, the dynamics of group and interpersonal relationships, and the biological and cognitive factors underlying learning and memory. The key concepts of Change, Development, Behaviour, Cognition, and Perspectives organise inquiry within each context.
Skills & assessment. Lessons model how to construct multi-perspectival responses — drawing on biological, cognitive, and sociocultural evidence within a single context — as required by Paper 2. Command terms including discuss, evaluate, and to what extent are practised through exam-style tasks, with mark schemes provided for every lesson to support both self-assessment and teacher feedback.
Unit 3HL Extensions
Five HL-only extension topics — Culture, Data Analysis, Internal Assessment, Motivation, and Technology — developed across 17 lessons that deepen conceptual understanding and build research skills.
Across 17 lessons and 5 topics, this unit addresses the additional demands of the HL course. The Culture and Motivation extensions revisit each of the four contexts through a focused lens, while the Technology extension examines how digital environments shape health, development, relationships, and cognition. Three dedicated Internal Assessment lessons guide students through the research proposal — from formulating a research question and selecting methodology to analysing data and addressing reflexivity and ethics. The Data Analysis topic develops descriptive statistics, graphical representation, and inferential significance testing.
Skills & assessment. HL lessons are explicitly aligned to the additional assessment requirements of Paper 2 and the Internal Assessment research proposal. Data analysis lessons build the quantitative literacy needed to interpret and evaluate research evidence, while IA lessons address the principled justification of methodological choices and the ethical responsibilities of psychological research.
Unit 4Concepts
Six standalone lessons, one for each key concept, examined as integrating ideas that cut across approaches, contexts, and the discipline as a whole.
Six lessons — one each for Bias, Causality, Change, Measurement, Perspective, and Responsibility — treat each key concept as a disciplinary lens rather than a topic-specific idea. Each lesson draws on examples from across the course to show how the concept operates in research design, theoretical explanation, and ethical practice, reinforcing the synoptic understanding expected in Paper 3 and extended-response questions.
Skills & assessment. Lessons develop the higher-order evaluative skills the course demands — constructing arguments, identifying assumptions, and weighing evidence — through tasks that require students to connect the concept to material studied across units. Mark schemes support precise, criterion-referenced feedback on extended and evaluative responses.
A clear teaching arc in every lesson.
Built for the exams students will sit.
Walk into every lesson already prepared.
Written against the current DP Psychology guide and ready to teach — so your time goes into the students in front of you, not into building resources from scratch.