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Lawyers & Judges: Tips on Volunteering: Youth Education




 

youth education

Helping students learn about the law is one of the most satisfying forms of public service. Whether you're working with elementary youngsters or secondary students, you’ll find plenty of hands-on tips and materials you can use by clicking on the links below.

What’s on the ABA site for reaching out to young people? Read the overview.

Where to Turn?

What to Do?

What to Teach?
Classroom Strategies for Every Grade Level

Whether you're presenting to elementary school students or high school students, these lessons will help make the law meaningful and interesting to your audience.

  • K-3 (lessons on community service, fairness, due process freedoms, and dispute resolution)
  • Grades 4-6 (lessons on influencing public policy, equal protection, due process freedoms, and mediation)
  • Grades 7-9 (lessons on how law regulates who may vote, equal protection, due process freedoms, and juvenile justice)
  • Grades 10-12 (lessons on the expansion of voting rights, equal protection, due process freedoms, human rights, trial by jury, freedom of speech on the Internet, ex post facto/double jeopardy, and drug testing in the schools)
  • Links to other lessons

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