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Resource Type: DocumentJustice Sayings Project: Educator's Guide
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English Language Development, Civics, English-Language Arts, Charter Schools and 2 additional..The Justice Sayings Project: Educator’s Guide, produced by Butte County Superior Court, includes maps of the North Butte County ...Contributor: Butte County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBalancing Act: The Three Branches
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson involves students understanding the three branches of the United States government and how these three branches chec...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCan We All Please Just Get Along?: The Rule of Law
Grades: TK/K to 3Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson concludes a unit that focuses on the need for rules/laws within a society and ultimately within a classroom.Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraffiti on Trial
Grades: 3Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceStudents will prepare for a mock trial in the classroom by examining the parts of an actual courtroom and then creating a floo...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Debate: U.S. Supreme Court Cases
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson follows the unit on the formation of the U.S.government and the U.S. Constitution in the student pop culture debat...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Rule of Paradox: The Rule of Law
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson is the 3rd lesson for the unit outline which centers on of the necessity for rules. Students have had the opportun...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhere We Fit In: The Judicial Branch
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis is the second lesson in a unit designed to help students understand that the strength of our Democracy is equal to the ...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJourney to Topaz - An Argument With the Supreme Court
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis unit begins following the reading of a historical fiction, Journey to Topaz (independent, and/or read aloud, 6-8th grade in...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe First Amendment - Free Exercise, Freedom of Religion: A Case in Point
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis unit will complement or begin study on the First Amendment of the Constitution as it relates to freedom of religion. Studen...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe the Civics Kids Lesson 4: Principles of Justice and the Role of the Judiciary
Grades: 1 to 4Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceLesson four focuses on the principles of justice and the role of the judiciary. By following a young girl as she tries to recove...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBrown v. Board of Education Word Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceLearn about a landmark Supreme Court ruling with this word puzzle. In 1954, the court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that ...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeen Curfew
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students will consider a proposed teen curfew law in a mock city council session. The class is divided into grou...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSalem Witch Trials
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson centers around a short play in which the accused person is given an obviously unfair trial. Students are asked to di...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching About Due Process and the Law
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students will be presented with various cases of discrimination. They will identify the discriminatory practice,...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScottsboro Trial
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students will read about and discuss the Scottsboro Trials from the 1930s. This miscarriage of justice clearly d...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpotlighting the First Amendment with a 5-Step Teaching Strategy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceI am a San Marino High School (CA) social studies teacher who tells the students enrolled in my U.S. Government class that with ...Contributor: Los Angeles County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Strategies for Civics, Law and Government Education
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Civics, Branches of Government, United States History, History-Social ScienceInstructions including student handouts for the most often used engaging strategies in civics, government, and law education. In...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Courts – Elementary Level Making an Appeal
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceObjectives: Students will be able to argue an appellate case. Students will analyze public policy conflicts. ...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMini Mock Trial
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceMini-Mock Trials are shorter versions of mock trial, taking an average of 2-3 hours. They are helpful for teaching about trial p...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding Procedural Justice
Grades: 4 to 7Subjects: Civics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceObjectives: Students will analyze the concept of procedural justice by: identifying in a play the unfair decisions by the ruler...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0