DOCUMENT RESUME ED 419 747 SO 028 854 AUTHOR Reggio, Michael H., Ed. TITLE Rights in Balance: Lesson Plans Written by PACE (Programs Advancing Citizenship Education) I Participants. INSTITUTION Oklahoma Bar Association, Oklahoma City. PUB DATE 1993-00-00 NOTE 153p. AVAILABLE FROM Oklahoma Bar Association, Law Related Education Committee, 1901 North Lincoln Boulevard, P.O. Box 53036, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Citizen Participation; *Citizenship Education; Civil Liberties; *Constitutional Law; Criminal Law; Democratic Values; Due Process; Elementary Secondary Education; Instructional Materials; *Law Related Education; Social Studies; United States History IDENTIFIERS *United States Constitution ABSTRACT This document contains 24 teacher authored lessons focusing on citizenship and citizenship education. The book is organized by grade level with elementary lessons at the beginning and high school lessons at the end, although several lessons can be adapted to all levels. Each lesson begins with an abstract that gives an overview of the lesson. In addition, the lessons indicate the intended audience, objectives, time and materials required, procedures, evaluation, tips for the teacher, and bibliography. Lessons cover the 19th Amendment, local laws, equal protection of the laws, use of editorial cartoons in the classroom, juvenile law, decision making, evaluation of political campaigns, voting, freedom of speech, and 4th Amendment rights. (RJC) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** RightsInBala---ce PACE IPrograms Advancing Citizenship Education Sponsored by Oklahoma Bar Association U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement Oklahoma Bar Association EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Law Related Education Committee This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization 1901 N. Lincoln Blvd. originating it. P.O. Box 53036 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Oklahoma City, OR 73152 Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 1 14) oo PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS do BEEN GRANTED BY O 0 cL0.12i O TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (1) INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Rights In Balance Lesson Plans Written by PACE I Participants Programs Advancing Citizenship Education Edited by Michael H. Reggio Sponsored and Published by Oklahoma Bar Association FOREWORD Thispublicationhasbeenwritten by can participate. Thousands of lesson plans are teachers for teachers. It is published by the Law- distributed free. Free teacher inservices are Related Education Project of the Oklahoma Bar offered. Arrangements can be made for lawyers Association(OBA/LRE).Themissionof and judges to come into the classroom to work OBA/LRE is to encourage the development and directly with students. Free anti-drug programs dissemination of innovative instructional have been distributed. Hundreds of VHS videos materials which focus on citizenship and what is are available for two-week loan. A Resource involved in citizenship education. To this end, Library has been established at the Oklahoma Bar OBA/LRE annually sponsors Programs Center for use by students and teachers. Annual Advancing Citizenship Education (PACE). This Awards for Teacher of the Year and School of week-longinstituteinvolvesteachersfrom theYear have beenestablished.National throughout Oklahoma from various teaching Speakers are brought in to speak to teachers and disciplines. At its conclusion, PACE participants students. Traveling Exhibits on the Bill of Rights develop and field test lessons which are then and the Constitution are available to schools on published and disseminated by the Oklahoma Bar loan. Numerous other projects are in progress. Association. This publication, represents the For information on any of these contact Law- efforts of twenty-four Oklahoma elementary and Related Education at (405) 524-2365 or (800) secondaryeducators.Moreimportantly,it 522-8065. represents some of the best instructional material developed by some of the most outstanding WHAT IS PACE? educators in Oklahoma, Each lesson has been honed through testing in the classroom. Finally, PACE, Programs Advancing Citizenship thispublicationistheculmination of the Education, is composed of four components. OBA/LRE bubble-up philosophy that teachers, First,is a week-long summer institute which those workingintheeducationaltrenches, brings together up to fifty Oklahoma teachers to ultimately know what best works and what does learn what is law-related (citizenship), why it is not work in the classroom. important, innovative ways to teach it, as well as to provide LRE materials for classroom use. All WHAT IS OBA /LRE? expenses, including room and board at a local university, are provided. In addition, a two The Law-Related Education Program of the hundred dollar stipendisawarded to each Oklahoma Bar Association was established in participant. Both national and state speakers work 1990 to encourage and support educators who closely with participants on teaching LRE. The wishtodevelopinnovativeandcreative second component is development and classroom instructional approaches in citizenship education testing of participant developed lesson plans. The (law-related education).Itis housed at the third component is a spring follow-up institute. Oklahoma Bar Center in the Capitol Complex at Finally, is the publication and distribution of a 1901 N. Lincoln Blvd in Oklahoma City. The book of lesson plans to Oklahoma teachers. OklahomaBarAssociationdevelopedthis PACE participants have been matched with program with numerous projects which are PACE Mentors who are master teachers in law- offered at no charge to educators. A quarterly related education. Mentors work closely with newsletter is distributed to over 12,000 educators PACE participants in development of subject and describes many projects in which teachers content and instructional methods. During the *1993, Oklahoma Bar Association. All rights reserved, except any partmay be reproduced for no-charge educational purposes, provided credit is given to publisher and author for its availability. PAGE i months after the summer institute, they maintain audience, and time required sections have been communication with PACE participants, offering copied and placed before the Table of Contents to encouragement and consultation in the research give a more compact overview of lessons found and development of projects. Some participants inthispublication. That sectionisentitled request and receive on-site visits. "LESSON PLAN ABSTRACTS, TIMELINES & AUDIENCES EXTRACTS." PACE PARTICIPANTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hundreds of nominationsfor PACE I participants were received from LRE leaders, There are many people who have worked State Department of Education, Superintendents, diligently for law-related education and on this Principals, social studies specialists and others project, so many in fact that acknowledgement of fromacrossOklahoma.Applicantswere all would be impossible. Nevertheless, there are nominated by individuals knowledgeable in the a number of people who have been instrumental field and usually professionally associated with in this program's success. This project could not the nominees. Participants were selected from have been completed without the support and grades elementary through high school and were encouragementofMarvinC. Emerson, selected on the basis of:1) a commitment to ExecutiveDirectoroftheOklahomaBar developing, testing, and demonstrating innovative Association. Thanks also goes to Martha M. approachesortechniques in citizenship Snow, Director of Public Information, and Trisha education, 2) a willingness to receive training in West of the Law-Related Education Department. effective strategies of institutionalization, and 3) In addition, recognition goes to OBA Past a willingness to train other teachers in the use Presidents thelate Neil E. Bogan, Michael and institutionalization of these new curricula. Burrage, R. Forney Sand lin, Andrew M. Coats, For information on becoming a PACE and Bob Rabon. Also, thanks goes to the Law- participant, contact Law-Related Education at the Related Education Committee of the OBA and Oklahoma Bar Association. especially to its chair, James E. Golden, Jr. who has worked tirelessly in his support for LRE the HOW TO USE THIS PUBLICATION past seven years. Finally, this project could not have been successful without the support of This book of lesson plans is organized by teachersallacrossOklahoma. They have grade level. Elementary grades begin at the embraced the Citizenship Program beginning and the high schoolatthe end. wholeheartedly and have extensively utilized However, many lessons are adaptable to a variety OBA/LRE resources. of grade levels; therefore high school lessons Michael H. Reggio, may be adaptable to middle level or elementary General Editor grades and vice versa. Each lesson begins with an abstract which gives an overview of the lesson. In addition each lesson has the audience, objectives,time-required,materialneeded, procedures, evaluation, tips for the teacher, and bibliography broken down into sections so that the reader can more easily preview