Teaching Civics Federal District Courts

Federal District Courts

Posted By llad On September 2, 2019 @ 8:57 am In | Comments Disabled

From the Esri GeoInquiries collection for Government

Students will explore the distribution of federal court districts, and will identify how the court system affects individuals.

Where are district courts?
What do district courts do?
How long does a chief judge serve?
What makes federal courts unique?
How do court systems work together? – Track the progression of the Tinker v. Des Moines cases through the system. How did each court rule in these cases?

GeoInquiries™ are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content. This fifteen-minute activity does not require a login to or installation of ArcGIS Online.

Go to: https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/pdf/geoinquiries/government/12-districtcourts-government-geoinquiry.pdf ^[1]

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