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The Trial of SpongeBob SquarePants is a fun activity to help students practice using logical evidence and reason (logos) in persuasive wri...
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This is a fun activity to help students analyze a classic short story and practice using logical evidence and reason in persuasive writing and sp...
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In my opinion this remains the best lesson I have on TpT for teaching about Ancient Rome...You receive a fou...
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This is a comprehensive unit guide that uses the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The unit on Ancient Greece incorporates traditional global a...
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Thank you so much for buying “the genre’s court!” my students absolutely love going to court and defending their genres. We introduce and...
Do Now, Six Scenarios, and followup questions.
Sample Scenario: You realize that it has been over ten years since the war in Afghanistan began ...
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This toolbox gives you all the tools and handouts you need to run a great mock trial in your classroom! The tools are all classroom-tested and ca...
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Students will enjoy engaging in this argument essay by reading an article about how thirty-eight witnessed a murder, yet did not call the police....
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Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (5 total). Each group will consist ...
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This is a good way to work with historical sources while studying the ancient Romans. This document/activity has three pages.
Page one is a b...
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I created this project as a way to bring in some kinesthetic learning to my Government class! Essentially, a group of students are given a set of...
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This download features questions for all four parts of the novel "Jude" by Kate Morgenroth. It also features several supplemental worksheet hand...
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This is a really hands-on group of projects for kids to work on while studying the Civil Rights Movement. There are detailed descriptions of each...
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Best practice approach to resolving conflict issues. Identifying meanings, causes, approaches and resolutions.
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This is a fairly simple (but pretty!) graphic organizer that requires students to locate the names of the nine current Supreme Court Justices, as...
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American History
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Webquest
Objective: Students will gain basic knowledge about Jim...
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You have been called to the courtroom! In this week-long unit, students will have the chance to play the role of lawyer, witness, or jury member....
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1 Week
Jeopardy Game about the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution as it applies to criminal law. This is a complete powerpoint show of 46 slides wh...
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Gives scenarios relating to amendments 4-8 and asks if the persons rights were violated.
Great for critical thinking and analysis.
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This is a research activity in which students are directed to a website providing information on a number or current criminal cases. The cases a...
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Briefs, 11 Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Criminal Law Cases dealing with the Bill of Rights under the U.S. Constitution. There are well over 100 sl...
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The Trial of Dayan contains an 8 page script written as a resource to support student learning about the criminal justice system, and is intended...
This activity introduces students to their fifteen due process rights as presented in the Bill of Rights. Students are provided four sheets. Th...
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This activity includes three internet based primary documents on the Holocaust. The websites used are from a great primary source site, the Eye W...
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Slavery by Another Name Lesson Plan
Most students do not have a good understanding of the discrimination and bias laws that were passed against ...
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3 Days
Mock Trial, or Youth Judicial as it is sometimes called, is one of the most enjoyable, and beneficial events that my children have participated i...
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As a social studies teacher, I love when I can bring in the material in all that I do. I have generated a list of classroom jobs; however, instea...
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This is a simple question sheet to go along with the film 12 Angry Men. I show this movie in my Law class and the students have typically been v...
This is a great introductory activity to do in a law class or even a civics class. Students have to consider how they would organize a large grou...
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At least one scenario per amendment, students identify which amendment is involved and get to insert names of the friends in the scenarios to add...
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The fundamentals which apply to criminal law, in detail in Jeopardy game format. This is a complete powerpoint show of 53 slides, which can be im...
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A perfect complement to your lesson plan for Criminal Justice Operations 2 or 3 (Florida), or any Criminal Justice/Police Procedures class. In-de...
A short PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of the events and people involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. Topics covered...
This is the Jeopardy game for the Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona which gave Miranda rights or warnings to those held in custody. There...
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This mini-unit was created to supplement student learning as part of a larger "Canadian Government and Citizenship" unit (which I will be releasi...
Students will embark on a Bill of Rights Scavenger Hunt throughout the school. Students will need to find visual references to the Bill of Right...
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This is a fun warm up activity for a class about Prohibition or the 1920's in the U.S. It includes five entertaining questions that are designed...
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These are 62 multiple choice test questions about the criminal law. There are 20 on murder-manslaughter; 11 on criminal protections under the Bil...
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Scenarios involving amendments 4-8
Students are asked which amendment is involved, if it was violated, and if so, how?
Great to enhance an...
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Fill-in-the-blank worksheet to go along with NOVA "Forensics on Trial" which is available at
Fill-in-the-blank worksheet to encourage students to listen carefully to the Frontline program
This is a 4 page document with a summary of criminal law used for a business law class. It is a short summary of information to introduce busine...
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I use this in my Grade 11 Introduction to Law course as a way to get students to consider what rules/laws are/need to be in place for people to l...
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Fill-in-the-blank worksheet to encourage students to listen carefully to the NPR Morning Edition story
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Students create an Acrostic Poem about Justinian and his accomplishments. This is a great alternate assessment particularly for students who are ...
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This powerpoint is a fun activity that gets students to use the information they have learned in either their civics or law classes.
The cases ...
Students will learn about African American history in the 1920s by studying the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Students use an Oklahoma Historical Soc...
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45 Minutes
This is a set of 15 fill-in-the-blank questions that encourages students to listen carefully to the NPR "Talk of the Nation" report on the Balloo...
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This is a 7 question study guide for the episode "Lessons Learned" from the tv show Criminal Minds. I use this as an example of rapport based int...
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There is an amazing PBS program that I purchased called Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. I use it to show the students Harper Lee's likely inspir...
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