Lawmakers Who's Who In The Law

Fourth graders view School House Rock - I'm a Bill to observe the process of writing a law.  For this bill writing lesson, 4th graders work in groups to create two laws for the colonists recognizing the importance of the...

Laws affect everything from a scholar's favorite public park to rules in the classroom. Express the importance of lawmaking and teach how they relate to every facet of life with a resource on how a bill becomes a law.

Focusing on the judicial branch of government, the fourth instructional activity in this series explores the structure of the US courts system. Beginning with an engaging activity based on the short story The Lady or the Tiger,...

Explore the importance of rules in a community with the engaging first lesson of this series on the US government. To begin, children play a paper clip game that requires them to make up their own rules as they go, after which the...

Find out what a law is and who makes them. Learn the step by step process of how laws are made on the national level.

Students discuss laws and their importance. They discuss silly or unique laws and explore the process that must be followed to make a law.

Learners investigate the laws of using land.  In this California Government lesson, students examine the many uses of land in California and find an environmental issue they care about.  Learners write a letter to a politician...

Learners explore why the need arose for laws to govern society, comparing and contrasting hunter/gatherer societies vs. agrarian societies. They write letters to the editor of the Babylonian Times, discussing their opinion of Hammurabi's...

An easy-to-understand reading of the process of how a law comes to be.

Help your class explore the question "Is it ever right to disobey a law?" With a strong base of knowledge about the Civil War, anti-slavery movement, and Underground Railroad, your class explores civil disobedience in Marshall, Michigan...