Teaching Materials and Strategies
Contract Disputes Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop series teaches students about situations that make contracts invalid and what happens when both parties to a contract have a dispute.
Credit and Finance Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop explores types of credit and has students play the role of consumers or the bank in negotiations to modify a credit payment agreement .
Dispute Resolution Lesson and Workshop Plans
Students learn about alternative methods of resolving disputes and practice negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Employment Law Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop series introduces students to discrimination in the workplace and has them conduct depositions and make arguments in a short trial alleging discrimination based on disability.
Immigration Lesson and Workshop Plans
The first classroom lesson reviews some data about immigration in the United States and the types of visas immigrants can receive. The second lesson discusses the reasons that immigrants can be removed from the United States. The workshop has students…
Introduction to IP Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop introduces students to the basics of different types of intellectual property protections and then apply this knowledge in a patent/trademark hearing.
Copyrights Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop series introduces students to copyright restrictions and exceptions and has them conduct a mini trial over alleged copyright infringement.
Trademarks Lesson and Workshop Plans
This lesson and workshop series introduces students to intellectual property through trademarks. Students learn about the prevalence of trademarks in our lives and about the ways companies, individuals, and organizations protect their trademarks.
Patents Lesson and Workshop Plans
Students are introduced to patents, what they protect, and who can receive one. They then act as Patent Office agents to review several applications for a patent.
Legislation Lesson and Workshop Plans
This simulated hearing focuses on teenage driving laws. During the classroom lesson, students learn about the differences between federal, state, and local laws, and brainstorm ways to address the high rate of teenage car accidents. The conference workshop has students…
