American Bar Association: Trial by Jury, Lessons
Following are some teaching activities you can use to demonstrate the importance of juries. You might also want to check out our background resources on juries.
www.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/schools/lessons/hs_jury.html
American Bar Association: Lessons About Juries and Many Other Due Process Topics, for ALL GRADE LEVELS
www.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/schools/lessons/home.html
American Bar Association: We the Jury Program (Secondary)
www.abanet.org/yld/wethejury/wethejury.pdf
Association of Trial Lawyers - When Justice Is Up to You - Celebrating America's Guarantee of Trial by Jury
When Justice Is Up To You is designed to bring this proud American heritage directly to young people. It was developed in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights by the Association of Trial Lawyers of American, Street Law, Inc., and the D.C. Street Law Project.
www.atla.org/private/ld05/lessonplan.aspx
The Civic Mind: Right to an Impoartial Jury: (grades 7-9)
This Lesson, Taught by Wendy Bay Lewis and Suzanne H. Livers in Mrs. Livers' 7th grade social studies classes in March 2000, was prompted by the jury verdict in the Amadou Diallo trial. A jury acquitted four New York police officers of murdering Diallo in a hail of gunfire. The moral, ethical and legal dilemmas raised by the trial (and other trials in the news) make it compelling for student disucssion. Mrs. Livers' class had been studying the origins of the legal system in ancient Greece and Rome and this lesson tied their learning to contemporary society.
www.civicmind.com/lljury.htm
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Chicago: The American Jury: Bulwark of Democracy (Secondary)
"The American Jury: Bulwark of Democracy" is an on-line resource guide for teachers, students, and citizens devoted to explaining the American jury system and its role in American legal, social, and political life. It features lessons, information, and resources developed by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago with high school teachers from California, Colorado, North Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin, and Illinois in cooperation with national experts and scholars on the jury system.
www.crfc.org/americanjury/
Delaware Law Related Education Center - Voir Dire Lesson (Secondary) - Law Day 2005 Judged or Attorney Lesson: "To Speak the Truth"
This lesson is a simulation of voir dire. It is based on the Scott Peterson Case. the lesson uses, with permission, materiils from When Justice is Up to You, developed by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law and the D.C. Street Law Project in 1992. This lesson meets the End of Cluster Expectations for Citizenship
www.delrec.org/lawday/voir_dire.pdf
Other Delware Law lessons:
www.delrec.org/lawday.php
Law Focused Education, Inc., State Bar of Texas - The Jury System - Jury Selection Game
In a democracy such as that of the United States, the jury system is considered to be a fundamental safeguard of constitutional rights. The right of trial by jury appears in both the Sixth and Seventh Amendments.
www.texaslre.org/jurygame_intro.html
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