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Elementary criminal justice - law resources for Microsoft Word
MOCK TRIAL! - The Guide, Rubrics, and Handouts to the Ultimate Project
Would you like to see your students rise to the highest of expectations? Watch your students transform into lawyers pushing the envelope of persuasion, witnesses carefully building a case, or judge/jury to conduct it fairly and appropriately. Do you want to have some of the most fun in your teaching life? Then purchase this Word document - easily my most downloaded and highly rated product - and customize it for your students and the trial of your choice. There are role descriptions and customiz
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Scooby Doo - Clue Analysis and Video Guide for Criminal Justice Students
Scooby Doo - Clue Analysis and Video Guide for Criminal Justice Students.Track evidence, sketch the villain, build an evidence board and determine who done it!Law & Public Safety students love it!Episodes can be found for free on Youtube.
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5th - 12th
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Frederick Douglass Primary Source Worksheet: Escape From Slavery
This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about Frederick Douglass and his escape from slavery. I use this worksheet to help students better understand slavery and the early life of Frederick Douglass.This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions:http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fdoug.htmClick here to visit the w
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5th - 12th
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United States Constitution: Mock Congress: How A Bill Becomes A Law
I use this mock Congress after The How A Bill Becomes A Law PowerPoint found in my TPT store and before The How A Bill Becomes A Law quiz found in my TPT store. This is a fun activity for students because students come up with their own idea for a law and they are actively engaged in every step of the process for how a bill becomes a law.
Included in this download:
1. Teacher Directions
2. Student directions
3. Handout for students to fill out when they write their bills.
4. Handout for
Grades:
5th - 12th
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CSI Time Travelers: A Gifted Unit
This is a 12-lesson unit for gifted 3rd-6th graders, designed to last one semester. It teaches the history of forensic science in a very hands-on and engaging way. Students track a criminal through history, but he keeps slipping away! The ancient forensic science techniques just aren't enough for keep up with this criminal. But when he reaches modern day and students can use modern day techniques, the criminal better watch out!The crimes occur in Medieval Times, the Wild West, and Modern Day New
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Great Depression 1930s Primary Source Worksheet: Bonnie and Clyde
This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about Bonnie and Clyde and their murderous rampage during the 1930s.
This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bonnieandclyde.htm
Click here to view the website.
The primary source document is labeled (Shoot-out with Bonnie and Cly
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5th - 12th
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Mock Trials for 4th grade
Transform your classroom into a courtroom with a Mock Trial. Bring government to life with this real world experience.
This unit will show you how to use actual social studies standards to create a trial in your class.
Students will become attorneys, witnesses, defendants and bailiffs.
Everything you need is right here in this file. Three cases: Native American Tribe vs. European Explorer, White Star Line (Titanic) vs. USA, East India Tea Company vs. Sons of Liberty.
I do this every year and w
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4th
California Gold Rush Primary Source Worksheet: Vigilante Justice, 1851
This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about lawlessness and justice in California mining towns in the 1850s.This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions.http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vigilante.htmClick here to view the website.The primary source document is labeled (Vigilante Justice, 1851). Students read
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Mining History Lesson Plan Collection
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry Primary Source Worksheets
This activity includes two internet based primary documents on John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry. The websites used are from a great primary source site, the Eye Witness to History site. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.htmlThe following topics are covered in the primary document readings.John Brown's Raid, 1859http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown.htmJohn Brown Defends His Raid, 1859http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown2.htmStudents read the documents and answer the
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: John Brown Worksheets/Webquest Collection
Show Me the Proof ~ Providing Textual Evidence ~ The Trial of Fact and Opinion
If you're looking for a lesson plan that will help your students finally get what it means to provide textual evidence to prove their answers, then this is the lesson for you!
It combines reading strategies and social studies government law in a very exciting way. First, students must pass the Bar Exam by being able to pass one of your fact and opinion assessments, then they team up in two-person law firms and present their evidence in court.
This was so fun that my students have asked we do
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1st - 6th
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Yertle The Turtle Mock Trial
Students will read the story 'Yertle the Turtle' and then participate in this mock trial for their Social Studies class. Each student will be provided with a part (can accommodate entire classes as many students will be assigned to the jury) and a script to read from. Practicing parts is recommended for the trial to run smoothly.
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4th - 12th
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Historian's Court: People of England Versus King John (Magna Carta)
This highly entertaining and engaging mock trial will reinforce any lesson on the events leading up to and surrounding the creation of the Magna Carta. Students will create a courtroom and decide how King John will be remembered in history. I have successfully used this lesson with students in 3rd thru 12th grade. Additional activities are suggested.
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3rd - 12th
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Mock Trials for 3rd Grade
Transform your classroom into a courtroom with a Mock Trial. Bring government to life with this real world experience.
This unit will show you how to use fairy tales to create a trial in your class.
Students will become attorneys, witnesses, defendants and bailiffs.
Everything you need is right here in this file.
I do this every year and when I announce it is time for Mock Trials again, I literally have students standing and cheering!
Grades:
3rd
Upfront News Magazine Jigsaw Activity and Lesson
This is a lesson and general outline of questions that could be used to analyze any news article, but was primarily used for our classes copies of Upfront Magazine. They were primarily used for social studies and law classes. The students according to the lesson would then have a Jigsaw activity in which they would present their news topic to the other groups.
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3rd - 12th
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Criminal Justice Webquest
This Webquest covers topics of mass incarceration, criminal justice, undercover cops, and operation D-Minus (the origin for Lin-Manuel Miranda's 21 Chump Street). It is intended to provide background knowledge on the criminal justice system in the United States while also having students form opinions of possible reform.www.zunal.com//webquest.php?w=401534
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Amendments Posters
Twenty-One 11x17 posters over the Constitutional Amendments.
Each poster is dedicated to one of the Constitutional Amendments. Use the posters in your classroom for decoration as well as a review method for your students. (Amendments not included: 11, 12, 20, 23, 25, 27) Amendments provided were chosen based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
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5th - 12th
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Westward Expansion: Death of Billy the Kid Primary Source Worksheet
This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about Billy the Kid and the American West. I use this worksheet to help students examine the “Wild West”.This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions:http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/billythekid.htmClick here to view the website.The primary source document is labeled (Th
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War Lesson Plan Collection
Courtroom Terms: Fill-in-the-Blank (Government, or To Kill a Mockingbird)
Courtroom terminology can be difficult for students. This fill-in-the-blank sheet includes 16 commonly used courtroom words. The terms are written in "simpler English" (originally) to help English Language Learners. However, my alternative high school students have found this product very helpful in their government classes. Middle school and elementary school students would also find it helpful. Included*2-pages of fill-in-the-blank vocabulary *an answer key*a word bank *Link to Google Doc vers
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4th - 12th
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Girl Scout Junior Detective Badge
This document has what you need to complete the Junior Detective Badge in about 2 hours. There is an activity to cover each part of the official GS PDF. Girls will learn how to look for details, use different cryptographs and codes, and wrap up the badge with a Girl Scout Mystery to solve. Designed to use with Breakout EDU boxes, but comes with instructions to make your own breakout box. It is an edible word document to fit your troop needs.
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4th - 5th
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Girl Scout Junior Detective Badge
This document has what you need to complete the Junior Detective Badge in about 2 hours. There is an activity to cover each part of the official GS PDF. Girls will learn how to look for details, use different cryptographs and codes, and wrap up the badge with a Girl Scout Mystery to solve. Designed to use with Breakout EDU boxes, but comes with instructions to make your own breakout box. It is an edible word document to fit your troop needs.
Grades:
4th - 5th
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BULLYING RESEARCH ACTIVITY
This internet activity can be used with the Street Law, Chapter 9, 9th Edition or as an extension to Anti-Bullying Programs in your school. The www.stopbullying.gov website is an excellent source for activities and professional development. This activity is a small part of what can be done. Students will be researching the federal government site on bullying. Students will learn fundamental information about bullying. This includes the frequency of bullying, effects of bullying, and preve
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1st - 12th
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Civil War Prisoners Four Minutes Video Worksheet
This video worksheet allows students learn about the treatment of prisoners during the Civil War. The video clip is only four minutes long, but it is packed full of information that will keep your students engaged.This video worksheet works great as a “Do Now Activity” or as a complement to any lecture or lesson plan on the Civil War. The worksheet helps students understand how the treatment of prisoners changed during the course of the Civil War. The video is great for visual learners and helps
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3rd - 12th
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Brochure: Copyright Laws in Teaching -Nice format, use to make others brochures!
This brochure is nicely formatted and contains information on how copyright laws apply to teachers. Can be a great example for middle and high school courses if students are doing projects on copyright, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, etc.
Or, you can just download this brochure for its aesthetics for your own personal use and change all of the content. I've found brochures are very tricky and time consuming to get the way you want them to look, so it is so nice to have a good foundation broch
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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