Description
Engage students in writing, research, and oral presentation skills with this inquiry based project! This is a must have project for your social studies or history classroom.
This project is naturally differentiated so that ALL of your students will be engaged. Seriously, even my ornery kids were HIGHLY ENGAGED in this project. Plus, this project takes uses very little of your valuable instructional time.
Decide your topic and assign students roles - this project can fit just about anything you have in mind! Base the trial on a historical event, a fictional book you're reading, or even something as simple as two superheroes.
Students take on the role of attorneys, witnesses, the defendant, jury members, and the bailiff. Students are challenged to discover primary source “evidence”, interview adults who have served/work in the job they take on, and create a character for the trial. Beware for their imagination to go WILD!
If you are looking for a project that students will remember for years down the road, administration will love, and parents will get excited about, you’re in the right place. This project is seriously SO MUCH FUN and includes absolutely everything you need, just print and follow the easy to understand directions that are pre-paced for you.
Included in this product:
- Ten pages of detailed, step by step instructions.
- Included pictures & instructions on how to get supplies FOR FREE.
- Courtroom Vocabulary (print & digital version)
- Posters and printouts (including a job application!)
- Easy to follow scripts
- Informational writing about the various roles
- Project checklists for students and teachers.
- Sample interview questions
- Guided online research questions
- Quizzes to assess knowledge
- Answer keys and differentiated grading rubrics
- NEW: Free digital resources to save time & cut clutter!
Not only will you be amazed at what your students discover, you will be the talk of the school and town! In my first year doing this, we even managed to make the newspaper!
My Other Project Based Learning Activities:
↠ Kid Government: Inquiry Based Civics Simulation
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Description
Engage students in writing, research, and oral presentation skills with this inquiry based project! This is a must have project for your social studies or history classroom.
This project is naturally differentiated so that ALL of your students will be engaged. Seriously, even my ornery kids were HIGHLY ENGAGED in this project. Plus, this project takes uses very little of your valuable instructional time.
Decide your topic and assign students roles - this project can fit just about anything you have in mind! Base the trial on a historical event, a fictional book you're reading, or even something as simple as two superheroes.
Students take on the role of attorneys, witnesses, the defendant, jury members, and the bailiff. Students are challenged to discover primary source “evidence”, interview adults who have served/work in the job they take on, and create a character for the trial. Beware for their imagination to go WILD!
If you are looking for a project that students will remember for years down the road, administration will love, and parents will get excited about, you’re in the right place. This project is seriously SO MUCH FUN and includes absolutely everything you need, just print and follow the easy to understand directions that are pre-paced for you.
Included in this product:
- Ten pages of detailed, step by step instructions.
- Included pictures & instructions on how to get supplies FOR FREE.
- Courtroom Vocabulary (print & digital version)
- Posters and printouts (including a job application!)
- Easy to follow scripts
- Informational writing about the various roles
- Project checklists for students and teachers.
- Sample interview questions
- Guided online research questions
- Quizzes to assess knowledge
- Answer keys and differentiated grading rubrics
- NEW: Free digital resources to save time & cut clutter!
Not only will you be amazed at what your students discover, you will be the talk of the school and town! In my first year doing this, we even managed to make the newspaper!
My Other Project Based Learning Activities:
↠ Kid Government: Inquiry Based Civics Simulation
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