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Camus' classic novel can help us build understandings about disease, laws, and human decency.
Contract and Consumer Law builds skills for students to navigate everyday consumer transactions.
Courts and our Legal System explains the structure of Canada's courts and their role in our legal system.
What is democracy? How does it keep the powerful in check? Democracy and the Rule of Law explains how democracy helps maintain the rule of law.
Direct democracy gives voters the power to decide what the law should be. Direct Democracy looks at the origins of direct democracy in ancient Greece, moves students through Saskatchewan’s history with and current legislation governing direct democracy, and closes with critical considerations of the merits and drawbacks of direct democratic rule.
Land for the exclusive use of First Nations was promised when the Treaties were first entered into, yet fulfilling this debt has only recently been addressed head-on. From Dream to Reality explores Treaty Land Entitlement.
It takes many different people in many different occupations to operate the legal system. This is a look at just some careers in the legal field.
William Golding's tale of boys stranded on a tropical island has been described as "a compulsory stop of any surveyor of the English novel after the Second World War." Lord of the Flies: The Novel Study uses the Law 30 curriculum as a frame to provoke classroom discussion and critical thought about the ideas of the rule of law and the process of governance.
My Co-operative Adventure explores the legal and operational frameworks of co-operatives. Iit is specifically designed to meet learning objectives of Module 5 of Entrepreneurship 30. As well, its first two lessons can be used to fulfill the co-operative-associated objectives of Social Studies 30.
This activity on interpreting laws shows how it is impossible to write a perfectly understandable law, applicable in all situations.
Help students make sense of how Saskatchewan is governed with the revised Our Government, Our Election.
This step-by-step guide makes it easy to implement a mock trial in Social Science or Arts Education classrooms. Included are criminal fact situations, trial scripts, diagrams, courtroom personnel profiles, and instructions.
How would you govern a new society? Shipwrecked examines six shipwrecks across history, to consider how societies can successfully rule themselves.
An exploration of how the law relates to Stephen Leacock’s classic novel.
What is the Youth Criminal Justice Act and how does it work to meet the unique needs of young people? Teaching Youth Justice introduces the YCJA and its role in the lives of young Canadians.
Who are lawyers? What do they do? How to become one? This issue of The PLEA helps answer these questions and may set you on a career path as a lawyer.
Big or small, contracts are part of our daily lives. This issue of The PLEA will explain contracts, and help you understand your rights and responsibilities when entering into a contract.
This issue of The PLEA looks at the law from a pedestrian’s perspective, from the rules of the road to neighbourhood design.
What does it mean to say that someone is a fanatic? Are all fanatics necessarily bad? Are we at risk of becoming fanatics ourselves? What can happen if fanatics get their hands on the levers of power?
This issue of The PLEA considers how the rule of law balances the seemingly contradictory concepts of order and freedom in a democracy.
This issue of The PLEA considers the ancient Greek origins of direct democracy, the history of direct democracy in Saskatchewan, direct democracy in action, and how to make better democratic decisions.
This issue of The PLEA introduces Hammurabi's Code, the oldest nearly-compete set of written laws.
This issue of The PLEA examines healthy relationships, dating violence, and sexual assault.
This issue of The PLEA takes advantage of students’ familiarity with The Simpsons to better understand law-related concepts.
Where did vaccines come from? How did they help free us from so many diseases? And what role has the law played in their development and use?
This issue of The PLEA is a how-to guide for implementing mock trials.
In 1729 Jonathan Swift proposed that the rich eat the poor. Is this actually happening today?
This issue of The PLEA uses Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town to ask how have we succeeded as a liberal democracy? And how can we do better?
Ideal for most any reader, Revolution is specifically designed to fulfill several requirements across Saskatchewan’s social science curricula. It will also be of particular interest to people curious about laws, social change, and ideology.
This issue of The PLEA explores the right to run for office. In particular, it looks at people who have made satire a part of their election bid. Ideal for most any reader, Running Jokes fulfills several requirements of Saskatchewan’s Social Studies 30 and English Language Arts 30 curricula.
This issue of The PLEA examines how shipwreck survivors set up their castaway societies.
Who was Niccolò Machiavelli? What drove his unorthodox thoughts? And why are his works still relevant today?
This issue of The PLEA explores how Nazis used satire to gain public support for their changes to German laws and social systems.
This issue of The PLEA is an introduction to the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Treaties and the Law supports teachers of all disciplines looking to implement treaty education in their classroom. The Informational Backgrounder is for all teachers, and the Teacher Resource Guide is designed with high school lesson plans, activities, and handouts.
Information for teachers to get the most out of a class courthouse visit.
