Lessons for Judges 2024-2025

Our most popular lesson for elementary schools! With this PowerPoint presentation, you'll walk students through a set of "You Be the Judge" scenarios where they learn to think like a judge. You may edit this lesson as you wish, add slides of your own, or reduce the number of scenarios. There is a video on Slide 13 you may play for young learners, if there's time.
Available in Mandarin and Spanish.

Administering the oath of office is an honor you AND your students will never forget. Reach out to local schools and volunteer to deliver the oath to newly elected student officers. Want to get creative? Print it out on parchment paper, roll it up as a scroll with a ribbon! Be sure to share a photo.

A 30-slide basic introduction to the U.S. Constitution, starting with the New World and challenges facing our founding fathers. Visitors should talk to the teacher ahead of time to determine the class's level of understanding. Note: most students in California don't receive detailed instruction like this until their last year of high school. Encourage students to seek opportunities to explore this document as they advance through school. Some day they may want to go into law, maybe even become a judge!

Students' freedom of speech, symbolic speech rights in schools, free speech on social media is the subject of this lesson. This lesson contains details of several cases, the teacher may choose with the Visitor the ones most appropriate for students as they learn about First Amendment rights, and how they've been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Through assigned acting roles, students reenact a United States vs. Susan B. Anthony

The Reconstruction Era is filled with examples of challenges to the U.S. Constitution. This lesson reviews amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and looks at how state laws govern our elections.