Conversations About the Constitution: American Bar Association Division for Public Education -- The website offers classroom aides, conversation topics, program planning ideas, quizzes, and additional resources to help explain constitutional concepts and clauses. Includes an interactive quiz on Fourth Amendment rights of students.
Homicide: Life On the Street -- Lessons In Law:
These six high school lesson plans incorporate clips from the series "Homicide: Life on the Street" to address bullying in school, being an eyewitness to a crime, due process, police accountability, use of deadly force, and the juvenile and adult court systems.
PBS Beyond Brown: This website provides middle and high school lesson plans, online interactive tools, documents and resources to accompany Firelight Media's documentary film, "Beyond Brown", on the legacy of segregation in U.S. public education. The two high school lesson plans cover the impact of ongoing de facto segregation and the repercussions of the federal No Child Left Behind law's emphasis on high-stakes testing.
The Storytelling Project: This Barnard Education Program curriculum for middle and high school students addresses race and racism through storytelling and the arts. One lesson deals specifically with over-policing in schools. For a copy of the curriculum, email brett.murphy@gmail.com.
Street Law Lessons for Books Not Bars: These six high school lesson plans accompany the "Books Not Bars" DVD. The interactive lesson plans cover incarceration rates, funding for incarceration, racial inequities in juvenile justice, alternatives to incarceration, human rights law and youth advocacy. The lessons involve discussion, data analysis, role playing, debates and mock trials. The plans include handouts, web resources and suggestions for involving community leaders.
