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Common Core SL.9-10.3 simulations
Legislative Branch Activity: Classroom Simulation on How a Bill Becomes a Law
Make civics practical and exciting for students using this Social Studies simulation that allows students to experience the Legislative Branch! Students will participate in writing bills for their school, community, or state while learning the various stages within the lawmaking process. All voices are heard as students become members of Congress, participate in committees, debate on the floor, and watch their President sign the bills that survive the entire process. Not only do students love
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6th - 12th
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The Odyssey Mock Trial - Unit Study - Greek Mythology - Real World Skills Script
Get your students into the characters and events of "The Odyssey" by Homer with this comprehensive Mock Trial resource! Your students will love playing their roles when you transform your classroom into a courtroom!Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Detailed teacher guide, complete with daily lesson plans✅ Introduction Google slideshow✅ Student directions✅ Roles guide✅ Expectations and rubrics for all roles✅ Worksheets for all roles✅ General script✅ Webquest jury duty assignment✅ Links to relevant videos✅
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7th - 10th
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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 12th
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High Engagement Murder Mystery & Whodunit Classroom Activities GROWING BUNDLE!
These "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery games will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" or "culprit" at the homecoming dance or winter formal. These interactive activities include all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery or whodunit game in the classroom!Murder at the
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7th - 12th
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SPEED DISCUSSION--A strategy for discussing informational text!
This ENGAGING strategy for classroom discussion is student approved! Blank stares are a thing of the past with this strategy. ANY student will find this strategy much more engaging than the typical question and answer strategies that never lead to active participation! INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Arrange desks in two rows facing one another (the person across is your partner.) If you have an odd number of students, make the last 2 seats in 1 row work together the entire time (this is row 1) The students i
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7th - 10th
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The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial
Romeo and Juliet is a wonderful story to teach and requires a great end project. This mock trial is a wonderful way to wrap up this unit. Students will put Friar Laurence on trial for manslaughter, and the defense will try to prove him innocent while the prosecution is trying to prove guilty. Students will be given differentiated roles to play in the trial, including defense or prosecution lawyers, witnesses (as characters from the play), judge, and jury members. Each role has an assignment in p
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial Bundle
Mock Trial Grading Rubric
This mock trial grading rubric connects with the mock trial assignments from my store. It includes grading for judges, lawyers, character witnesses, and jurors. In this purchase you will find a color and black/white version rubric that is graded out of 50 points, and color and black/white version with a blank space to include your own point values, and small versions of four-to-a-page that can be printed in greater quantity with less paper use.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird Mock Trial Bundle
Ethical Dilemma Chat Group Activity
A business ethical dilemmas activity in which students read through ethical dilemma scenarios and take notes on what they would do. Students can work in groups or individually. Works well for an ethics unit or Business class. Fully editable in Google Drive.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RTTP: Threshold of Democracy - High School Companion
Reacting to the Past offers wonderful simulations for college settings. However, when using it in a high school classroom, it's best if it's modified a bit to avoid a popularity bias when voting. This one for Threshold of Democracy adds a food and art component to the game. Turn your high school classroom into an ancient Greek assembly in 403 BC, and watch your students give speeches and debate each other on fun topics the ancient Greeks wrestled with. This will become your favorite classroom ac
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9th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial Bundle
This bundle includes the Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial pages along with the rubrics for grading the mock trial.
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8th - 10th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Mock Trial
Hold a mock trial for the book, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a fantastic activity that involves the entire class with differentiation and student-led discussion. You can assign each student a role, including a judge, lawyers, character witnesses, or back up characters/jury duty. This purchase includes all of the explanations, preparation worksheets for each role, and during-the-trial worksheets for jury duty (19 pages). Following is the explanation at the beginning of the documents for the stu
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird Mock Trial Bundle
Get Them Thinking: Making a Pair of Jeans Activity
Making a Pair of Jeans ActivityThis is a fun way to introduce the concept of interdependency. I use this activity almost every time I teach BBI1O/2O (Introduction to Business). Could be used in a geography unit.Students will...explore the relationship between different businesses/key people involved in making a pair of jeansmake connections based on their own viewpointsreflect how the economic health of each participant can affect the entire marketIn the download...The activity instructions a
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7th - 12th
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Worksheet: Evaluating a Speaker [CCSS.ELA.SL.3] (EDITABLE)
A worksheet to explore ideas in 6 Specific Categories in a workshop format for a speech or speaker assignment. Is general enough to use with most speeches and speakers.1. Comments About First Impressions: 2. Comments About Delivery: 3. Comments About the Speaker: 4. Comments About the Structure: 5. Comments About Rhetoric: 6. Comments About What You Learned:
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Unit: Speeches for Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Marvel vs DC Review Game
An exciting and immersive review game for students who enjoy Marvel and DC characters. Rules are below:OBJECTIVE: Answer a question to move a character from your team (2 heroes & 1 villain). The team that has collected the most items wins the game.1) Each team selects two heroes and one villain and are placed at a green start tab on their side of the board.2) After a team answers the review question you ask correctly, they may move one character on the board. If they are incorrect, they do n
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ETS1-2
, 3-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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I"ll Go to the Ends of the Earth for You
What were the risks and possible benefits of the European voyages of exploration during the 1400's and 1500's? In this activity, students play the roles of European rulers trying to decide whether to support various expedition proposals. The activity is most effective when used before studying the voyages, for it helps to make the human drama of the "age of exploration" more real to students.
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9th - 12th
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Who is the Communist?
This is a class activity for 7 or more students. The goal of the activity root out the Communist among the Citizens. This is an activity roughly based on the game Wolves or Mafia. However, there is no killing in the game only
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9th - 11th
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Improvisation Guide
Improvisation can be difficult, but with a set of rules, suggestions for games, and cards for students to write in suggestions for topics/details, it becomes easier and easier!
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8th - 12th
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History Town Hall Activity - Greece
Looking for a fun history simulation? Break students up into groups of two or four and have them brainstorm the solutions for the real historical problems faced by the people from ages past. Then students will propose their ideas to the class as the class evaluates each idea with further questioning. Take a break from lecturing and enjoy listening to your students show off their problem-solving capabilities and rhetoric skills. After the activity compare your students' thoughts to what happened
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6th - 12th
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Ponyboy Debate
Reading The Outsiders? Use this speaking and listening activity to help students sharpen their argument skills using evidence from the text.
Before you read chapter 12 to find out if Ponyboy gets to stay with his brothers, let students make their own recommendations.
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6th - 9th
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Mock Trial: Who is responsible for exacerbating the climate crisis?
In this lesson, students are thrown into a mock trial where they are evaluating the culpability of businesses, politicians, and the media in exacerbating the climate crisis. The materials come from this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen. The lesson can take place in one 80 minute period, or over a couple lessons if you allow for further research. It is very engaging and allows for students to see how overlapping i
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7th - 11th
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