Mini-Mock Trial: State v. Anderson
Grade
6-9
9-12
Lesson Duration
In this mock trial, students role play people in the courtroom as they hear a case involving a driver charged with violating a law that requires drivers to move over when they encounter emergency vehicles with their emergency lights activated. Case involves interpretation of a “a lane away” law and is based on a Minnesota statute.
Mini-Mock-Trial-State-v.-Anderson 2016
Mini-Mock-Trial-Manual-Instructions-2014
Source
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation is a civic education organization that is a source for interactive teaching materials, including Mini-Mock Trials and a Teacher's Manual, available at www.teachingcivics.org.