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Maryland Department of Education

The Concept of Identity Lesson 5: Motivation - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs provides the lens class members use to analyze and evaluate the motivations of the characters in Sylvia Plath's "Initiation" and scenes from Mean Girls. Readers then select a character from A...
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Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Analyzing the Sales Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Make the sale! Using the informational resource, scholars learn how to analyze the sales process to maximize profits. They design a poster depicting Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and then combine forces to create a PowerPoint presentation...
PPT
Curated OER

Relevant Background Factors

For Teachers Higher Ed
Here is an academic presentation intended for those teaching small groups or engaging in human management. It defines personality types and traits in terms of personal background factors, then uses concrete theory and research to provide...
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Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Mind of a Terrorist: A Psychosocial Perspective

For Teachers 10th - 12th
What a great way to make a psychology lesson on personality development socio-politically relevant! Class members investigate causes of radicalism--specifically, becoming a terrorist. This resource includes background information, key...
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Curated OER

Health

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, while diving into a diverse pool of activities, examine the ways in which choices that you make today determine your future health and well-being. The examination of materials begin with Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs."
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Curated OER

Who Is Who?

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete the resource page Who's Who? then survey their classmates to see which phrases describe their classmates.
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Curated OER

Education: Passing Enough Knowledge to Survive to the Next Generation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars compare and contrast the knowledge requirements for human and animal children. They identify the consequences of an animal if it is unprepared for the given environment. They discover the importance of education as well.
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Curated OER

Similar and Different

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe a pair of students standing in front of the class and compare and contrast them using a Venn Diagram using these guidelines: eye color, hair color, older/younger, tallest/shortest, gender, favorite food, favorite...
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Curated OER

Haiti: Still in Crisis, but No Longer in the News

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the Haitian crisis and learn about the needs and ways to help the situation. For this Haitian crisis lesson, students study the Maslow's "Needs Pyramid". Students study the media coverage of the earthquake and then answer...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Motivation

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this psychology review worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions on human motivation, homosexuality and Maslow's Theory.
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Who Said Math Can't Be Fun?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
With these innovative ideas, demonstrate to your class that math doesn't always have to be hard work.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Similar and Different

For Teachers 4th Standards
Using a Venn diagram, pupils compare the similarities and differences between two classmates. Next, they review the CARE acronym (Collaboration, Acceptance, Respect, Empathy) and discuss how it applies to diversity in the classroom.
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Curated OER

Where Do You Shop?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine shopping patterns in another community to develop a hypothesis on why there are more opportunities for goods and services in some neighborhoods while others lack these goods and services.
Interactive
Curated OER

English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 7 - Exercise 6a

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills instructional activity, learners answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Aggression and Bullying

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze bullying and aggression. In this bullying lesson plan, students discuss bullying and practice methods to deal with aggression. Students also participate in activities that enable them to consider why bullies...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

For Students 9th
Build your knowledge of what it means to be human by answering questions to help you prepare to read "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Mental Health and Disasters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During and after large disasters such as devastating hurricanes, floods, oil spills that have changed lives, fires, war and other natural and man-made disasters, how does a person cope? How do people deal with severe loss? How do they...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Motivational Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on motivational appeals and what motivates people including a list of 16 basic motivators, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and Monroe's motivated sequence.
Article
Shippensburg University

Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Abraham Maslow

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from Personality Theories by Dr. C. George Boeree surveys the life and work of Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) with extensive explanations of his theories. Includes references.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Moving West, Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Assign reasons from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explain pioneers' migration to and return from the American plains in the 1800s. Research, write and produce a newspaper dedicated to a natural disaster such as the 19th-century drought.
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PBS

Pbs People and Discoveries: Abraham Maslow

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS People and Discoveries site offers a great introduction to the work of Maslow. Includes a brief bio of Maslow and his ideas.