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Handout
ProCon

Police Body Cameras

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Should police officers wear body cameras? Scholars consider the question as they use the resource to conduct independent research about the debate topic. They read a brief background and peruse the main pros and cons about the issue....
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

What Police and Detectives Do

For Students 5th Standards
What do police and detectives do to keep their community safe? Six short-answer questions make up a worksheet designed to reinforce reading comprehensions skills while providing information about police officers and detectives.  
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Lesson Plan
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

Van Jones: Police Brutality

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Develop an understanding of how the media and society are connected and responsible for the defense of universal human rights. Learners investigate and examine the conflicts of police brutality as it is portrayed in the media and through...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Naming a Police Dog

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine the role that police dogs do and assist a local police officer to name his police dog. Students participate in an online police station interactive activity, read facts about police dogs, and play an online police dog game.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Police Uniform

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the purpose and function of the police uniform. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order to focus upon the history and hold relevant class discussions. Students explain why...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Police patrol the city's garbage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students debate the pros and cons of police searching the trash of suspected drug dealers. Students collect background information, and students interview city officials and garbage collectors. Students develop a strategic plan for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Protect And Serve? Debating Police Misconduct And Reform

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss purpose of law enforcement, its relationship to the community it serves, and ways to combat police misconduct.
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Activity
Street Law

Mock Trial - Brooks v. Lawrence and the Metro City Police Department

For Teachers 9th - 12th
An incident with a Swiss Army knife leads to a suit against the police department for battery, false arrest, and intentional infliction of emotional distress in the Brooks v. Lawrence & the Metro City Police Department mock trial...
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Activity
Street Law

Mock Trial - Decker v. The Metro City Police Department

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Why did the police officer shoot the pit bull? That is the question at the heart of Decker v. The Metro City Police Department, a mock trial case.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Job of the Police Officer

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this community helper activity, students look at a photograph of police officers, and read a short job description. They answer and correct 5 online multiple choice questions using the online tool.
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Printables
Curated OER

Police Car Craft

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Beep beep! Use a police car cut-out craft in your class as part of your vehicle unit, or as a fun rainy day activity. Point out the lights and sirens as a way to differentiate the police car from other cars your class members have seen.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Analyzing Stop and Frisk Through Personal Stories and Infographics

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How much can you learn about an important topic from a single image? High schoolers analyze an infographic that represents the number of stops performed during the Stop and Frisk police procedure. After building background information...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Finding Evidence of Laurence Yep’s Perspective of the Police in Dragonwings

For Teachers 6th Standards
Perspective is everything. Using a graphic organizer, pupils determine Laurence Yep's perspective of the police in his novel Dragonwings. Additionally, scholars complete anchor charts to identify connotative language in the text.
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Facing History and Ourselves

The Importance of a Free Press

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;. . ." Why is this guarantee of free speech and a free press the First Amendment to the US Constitution? Why are these rights so essential to a democracy?...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Jack the Ripper: Limitations of the Police Force

For Students 8th - 9th
For this British law enforcement worksheet, learners learn why police had such difficulty tracking down and capturing 'Jack the Ripper' in the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Three questions are listed for students to complete.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Police Reports

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover police procedures by filling out crime reports.  In this government instructional activity, students discuss the benefits of historical reports pertaining to criminals and victims.  Students listen to an officer of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Police Car: Print and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "police car," write the word independently, and color the picture of a police car.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Police Arrest MySpace Users

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research the background of websites, MySpace and FaceBook. In groups, they interview local experts about Internet crimes. They investigate what their school's policy is and write a news feature how local schools are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Safety And Water Safety

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the concept of safety in and out of the water. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students focus upon the role of police officers in the keeping of safety and then discuss the different types of...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Policing The Plains – Who Did What?

For Students 8th - 10th
In this US history worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer that shows the hierarchy of those who were policing the American plains. They begin with the President and work through a flow chart down to the town marshals and sheriffs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Police Athletics: Beyond the Call

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore relationships between communities, athletes, and police.  In this awareness and education resource lesson plan, students discuss physical activities, benefits of an active lifestyle, and the relationship between policing...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Simulations: Police Reports

For Students 5th
In this writing simulations:  police reports worksheet, 5th graders read elements and examples of  police reports, then write prehospital care and police reports based on the incident information provided.
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Cinema Cops

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A study of how public perception is both reflected and influenced by film and television, this instructional activity helps students develop an awareness of audience as well as a critical view of media. Depictions of police in television...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What Do Police Do?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this police activity worksheet, learners copy a set of sentences shown under pictures of things a policeman does. A reference website for additional resources is given.

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