10:16AM
Law Parents and Humpty Dumpty
Attention All of you Law Dads and Moms...During my fifth grader’s parent teacher conference I offered to come in and help the kids learn a bit about the judicial system and how it fits into our three branches of government. I had heard about a case that one of the bar associations had put together letting the kids roleplay a trial. Well it took me some six months to track it down but I finally did get the transcript for a kids trial. Humpty Dumpty ... did he actually fall? or was he pushed? It is a great little trial where the kids play the roles of the judge, attorneys, parties, witnesses, bailiff, and jury.
I also put together a keynote presentation to give the kids before doing the trial (which has been exported to Powerpoint for those of you that are Mac challenged). The kids were very attentive during the presentation and asked some very good question. “How do you defend someone if you know he is guilty?” Since I’ve done all this work I thought I might as well share it.Below you can download "the case" along with my Keynote Presentation. For those folks still on Windows, download the Quicktime and it will work just like Keynote on your Dell. You can live life large. Grin. If you do use it, please drop me a note and let me know how it goes.
The kids seemed to have a good time and I've already agreed to go back to the fifth grade next year and do it for the next group (even though I won't actually have any kids in the class)
By the way... My daughter’s class had two juries because of size. One said he fell, the other said he was pushed. Can anyone say double jeopardy?
Reader Comments (2)
Yet another fascinating post that doesn’t have anthing to do with macs. I’m learning that to run an interesting blog you need to as many avenues as possible for content. My original plan to do mac only was a big mistake.
Tell me what’s your next case Jack & Jill? Did he trip or was it attempted murder. And did they have pre-nuptial?
Really enjoying my daily visit to your blog!
Thanks Darren!
Although this site is centered on the mac, all of my other interests definitely creep in. I kind of view this site as a place to discuss ways to lead a successful (but not consuming) career, be a dad, have fun with music and movie making, make the occaisional run down geek alley and, of course, mac love.