Child Labor

Supporting Questions:

• How did people get laws enacted? 

 

Standards:

• SS.4.11.Compare and contrast different ways that the government interacts with the economy.

 

Objectives:

• Given the Power Point of how laws get enacted, the students will role-play an attempt to get a law enacted.

 

Materials:

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• Notecards of jobs students can chose from

• Bravegirl by Michelle Markel

 

Assessments:

• Summative assessment of the lesson: The students will be assessed on their role-play assignment; they will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of how a bill becomes a law and then how a law gets enacted.

 

Description of activity:

• The teacher will begin the lesson by reading Brave Girl as a read aloud to the class. She will stop throughout the book to talk about activism and how in order to get a law enacted enough people have to show that they are not okay with this and want to make a change.

• The teacher will present a Power Point to the class that is informing them on what steps a law has to go to in order to get enacted. It will have pictures and descriptions on how laws are made.

• After the PowerPoint is reviewed with the class, the students will perform a role-play activity.

  • First, all of the students in the class will write down a law that they want to try and get approved relevant to child labor and the information that they learned.

  • Second, the class will be broken down to the House of Representatives, Senate, President, and Representatives. These jobs will be assigned by having the students pick out of a hat to make sure things stay fair.

  • Third, the representatives that were assigned will present their laws and have it go through the steps to see if it gets passed. This will show the students that it is hard to get laws passed.

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Evaluation: