Law Lesson Plans

Students explore the relationship of resistance, voltage, and current in series and parallel circuits using a computer model of a circuit board. They discover Ohm's Law by constructing series circuits.

Students explore refugee policies. In this international law and U.S. policy lesson plan, students examine the U.S. policy on refugees between 1950 and 1980 as well as the current policy. Students examine the compliancy of international laws the policies of other countries regarding refugees.

Students in a special education class examine the United States Constitution. Using the text, they answer five research questions and discuss the amendments that concern medicine, ethics and law of the right to die issue. They develop their own opinions on the issue and present them to the class as a presentation or debate.

Fifth graders study Newton's three laws of motion in a whole group setting using their textbook as a resource. They work in small groups to create a multimedia presentation of one of the laws to present to the class. They design an activity that demonstrates one law, and photographic using a digital camera.

Fifth graders investigate the two houses of Congress and their roles in the legislative process. They study how a bill becomes a law and examine the president's place in the legislative process. They work in groups to research the information at designated web sites, present it to the class and write a short research paper using the information.

Fourth graders explore Newton's First Law of Motion. They conduct an experiment to observe what happens to a ball that is placed carefully on slippery ice. They also observe what happens to a dowel on the ice, then draw and label pictures of what they observe during the experiment.

Students investigate Newton's Three Laws. For this Newton's Law lesson, students write the laws in their own words. Students then do an experiment with a ping pong ball. Students drop the ball from a set distance and record their results, noting the experiment demonstrates all three laws.

Students navigate important information about ethics, rules, and laws by playing a prepared PowerPoint presentation that is available to each student through a shared drive. They respond positively to the expectation of good character, integrity, and shared values.

Identify important aspects of criminal law and the criminal law process. Junior high readers demonstrate verbal and written skill that focus on enduring issues, divergent viewpoints, and excerpts from famous speeches and documents in United States history. Use this lesson to evaluate the speaker's argument.

Young scholars read and analyze "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. They answer discussion questions, complete a graphic organizer, and write a script for an interrogation or courtroom scene in the style of the television show, "Law and Order."