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Peer reviewedYeaton, Connie; Braeckel, Karen – Update on Law-Related Education, 1987
Presents a lesson designed to introduce students to the Bill of Rights. Students learn that their rights are protected by laws and that they must act responsibly. The lesson uses several hypothetical situations and a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court case involving the use of vulgar language by a high school student during an assembly speech. (JDH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties, Concept Teaching, Constitutional Law
Pearson, Jim; Ingersoll, Tom – 1991
Using primary sources, this unit explores the founding of the 12th and most successful of the English colonies in North America, Pennsylvania. Established by the Quaker civil libertarian William Penn, Pennsylvania was intended to demonstrate that a society founded on mutual respect, tolerance, and individual responsibility could flourish. The…
Descriptors: American Indians, Civil Liberties, Colonial History (United States), Grade 5
