New ToPIX Content: 6/14/12

Here is your latest installment of #ToPIXThursdays. This week we have two news items, an activity, and some updates to the ToPIX Song List.

A number of new (and classic!) songs and concepts were added to the Song list thanks to Assistant ToPIX Editor Juliana Breines, Dianne DeSousa, Fabiana DesRosiers, Carol Furchner, Jeff Henriques, and John Lewis. Tamara Spiewak Toub suggested that we include the year the song came out, and the list has been updated in light of that suggestion.

Please e-mail any other suggestions (or songs) to ToPIX@TeachPsych.org.

New ToPIX Content

Song list Use your internet browser’s “Find Text” function to search the list by unit, concept, artist, song title, or year.

Video of the “You’re Not Special” commencement speech, CBS News coverage, and a developmental psychologist’s response in Psychology Today was posted to the Development in the News page (along with questions for discussion).

A link to a NY Times article on parking and congestion relief incentives at Stanford University was posted to the Learning in the News page (along with questions for discussion).

A new small group activity--involving a shower cap and labeling neural structures-- was posted to the Neuroscience in the Classroom page. (Thanks Sue Frantz!)