Project Intro and Bio Description.

The students involved in this project-based learning will be re

enact real life court cases. This project is needed in my school
because of the students lack of knowledge of how the court systems
work. The majority of students will do actions in their life that are
against the law. It is important that these students are aware of the
process taken place if and or when they get caught. How my project
works is that the students will be receiving previous knowledge about
the roles of the courthouse. I will present my classroom with a case
that is currently happening in the education field. If there is no current
case going on during this section of the year I will use the most recent
case. The students will each be assigned a role in court that we have
learned in class. For about a week or so the students will play out the
case. I will be watching and observing how the student express their
roles. One side will be the student who convicted the crime and the
other side will be the administrations/board of the schools. The
students will be using the ipads to find their own data about the case.
It will be their responsibility to educate themselves and their
classmates on the crime convicted. They will go through the entire
case step by step and as a class come up with their own outcome of
the case. The verdict of the real life case will not be reveled to class
until after they have come up with their own through the reenactment.
I would like to be able to take the class on a trip down town to witness

a court case in action. This way before reenacting it themselves they

will be able to witness hands on what a day in the courthouse might
look like. This will impact about 25-30 students a year and about 75-90
every three years. I am Mrs. Lopez and it will be my first year teaching
Social Studies. I am a strong believer in Project-Based learning. It is
important for the students to learn through their own eyes and be
obtaining knowledge that will later on affect them.