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Law Lesson Plans
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Students create a graphic organizer to illustrate the steps elected representatives must take to make a new law. Included: students complete work sheet and role-play ideas.
Students examine how laws on hazardous waste is developed and enforced. They work together to discover how statutes are passed as well. They complete an activity to end the lesson.
Students watch segments of "Unforgiveable Blackness" in class. They analyze Jack Johnson's problems with the law and the legal trouble of other athletes today. They create a set of standards they believe athletes should follow.
Students use a spreadsheet to solve gas law problems. In this gas laws lesson plan, students use the Express Calc program to load a spreadsheet for the gas law problems. Students compute volume, temperature, or pressure according to the existing conditions in each problem.
Students examine the law and the Miranda rights. They role play members of law enforcement and ones being arrested.
Students study the concept of negligence. They recognize the difference between civil and criminal law and examine the factors that courts consider when considering if there is a duty and whether it has been breached. They argue either for or against one of the negligence elements.
Students identify and discuss First Amendment rights, examine how to make sound legal judgements regarding photographs of private individuals, examine difference between public and private figures as far as libel law is concerned, distinguish between legal and illegal photojournalism scenarios, and discuss relationship and differences between law and ethics.
Third graders define the term law, explain benefits gained from laws and appreciate these benefits in daily life.
First graders participate in a role play about laws and rules where they portray an authority figure, or portray someone who has to obey the law. For this sociology and law lesson plan, 1st graders discuss the purpose of laws and rules. The authority figures they role play are a parent, teacher, sheriff, policeman, principal, boss, and president. Top-notch lesson.
Students solve word problems dealing with Charles' Law. In this Charles' Law lesson, students observe PowerPoint presentations concerning Charles' Law. They complete a WebQuest and describe the relationship between hot air balloons and Charles' Law. Students explore the Kelvin scale and why it is used. They create a poster explaining their findings.
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