Elementary School Lesson Plans

Constitutional Rights

*1. Creating a Bill of Rights in a Space Colony (grades 4-8)
Objectives: define "rights," apply U.S. Bill of Rights to hypotheticals

2. Categorizing Constitutional Rights - Small Group Discussion

3. Bill of Rights History - "Jeopardy" Format

4. Understanding the Bill of Rights - Group Discussion with Handouts

5. Rights in Conflict - Students Render a Decision

6. Procedural Justice - "Land of Fairness" Play*

7. Fairness and Equal Treatment - Discussion with Handout
www.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/lessons/k3.html

8. Equal Protection of the Law - Discussion with Handout
www.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/lessons/46strat.html

Introduction to Law

*9. No Vehicles in the Park (grades 5-12)

Objectives: Identify purpose and function of law, lawmakers' intent, practical applications, and that laws are subject to interpretation.

*10. Rights and Responsibilities (grades 4-6)

Objectives: list whose rights and responsibilities are involved in actual cases (Gingerbread Man, Kick In the Chin, Foul Ball), and arrive at a verdict by working in small groups.

11. Making an Appeal (Taught with) What is a Court?

12. What is a Republican Government? - Determining Common Welfare

13. What Responsibilities Accompany our Rights?

14. Rules and Law

Problem Solving

15. Mediation Process - Role Play

16. Ways to Solve a Problem

Trial Procedures

17. U.S. v. Hirabayashi - Case Analysis (WW2 Internment)

18. Mock Murder Trial - Herschel C. Lyon (sea lion)