Eyewitness Testimony (Engaging Lesson and Activity on Memory)
Ed Dynamic
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Grade Levels
6th - 12th
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- Google Drive™ folder
Pages
30+
Ed Dynamic
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What educators are saying
This one is a blast-- students love guessing who the culprit is! It also does a great job showing the power of suggestion.
I use this resource in my Forensics course when we talk about testimonial evidence. It is engaging and helps show how eyewitnesses are not 100% reliable.
Great activity.
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Description
This product is designed to facilitate learning about human memory and thinking-- and specifically, why we can't always trust it. This product puts students in the shoes of a witness to a stolen laptop, and asks them to describe what they saw. Along the way, students see how fallible human memory is, and why it can be very problematic to rely solely on human memory. Overall, the slides are designed to cover the following major topics
These slides cover these major topics, and more!
- Refresher on basics of memory
- Three kinds of memory (Sensory, Short-Term, Long-Term)
- The Simplified Memory Process (Encoding, Storage, Retrieval)
- Eyewitness Memory Activity
- Reflection
- Statistics on Eyewitness failures
Students find this activity engaging, and you will too! The product includes summarized research, embedded videos, well-designed class slides, the eyewitness activity, an accompanying student worksheet.
Total Pages
30+
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
2 days
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