Core Concepts: Justice The quality of being fair; the up-holding of what is right and lawful

 Grade Range: Middle School

Operational

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Activities/Ideas

Respect for and abiding by an established judicial system enhance by a sense of fairness instilled through the educational process The student will be able to:
  • recognize and demonstrate fairness
  • understand the role and process of the judicial system in our society
Have students:
  • develop justice dilemma scenarios to analyze and evaluate/debate
  • use a simulated activity illustrating due process
  • conduct a mock trial
  • write about situations involving a just/unjust action expressing their personal feelings
  • interview county/state judicial officials
  • create, read or memorize a poem and be able to explain on other words what it says about justice
  • write a report on a story, poem or book and explain how justice figures in the story
  • identify a character from history or literature and explain how the person displayed justice
  • identify examples of justice in literature, history and current events