Public Legal Education Resources for Teachers
    
Welcome!
The materials offered here are intended for use by classroom teachers to support and extend their Social Studies, Health, C.A.L.M., and Legal Studies instruction. While our Public Legal Education staff currently deliver a great number of presentations in Edmonton and the surrounding area, they are not able to visit many rural communities. These resources were primarily created to help meet the needs of teachers in these communities.
Issues related to the law in the classroom span all of the subject areas and pervade all areas of student life. The social implications of students decisions and actions are often intimately linked to the legal implications. The information and resources that are presented here focus on both the social and legal aspects of these issues in order to help create a better understanding of their interrelationship.
How are the resources organized?
Each topic area contains four resource pages:
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Information
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A brief overview of the topic and relevant issues. Each information brief is available for viewing online or in PDF format for download and printing. |
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Lessons
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This section includes PowerPoint Presentations and reproducible ready-to-go teaching resources, information packages, activities and worksheets suiting a variety of purposes and grade levels |
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Links
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Each topic includes a collection of links to related resources which are useful for lesson extension, student exploration and expansion of personal knowledge on the topic. |
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FAQ
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You may find the answers to frequently asked questions for each topic in this area. If you have any question on the topics presented or the resources available here you may also contact one of our public educators. |
We find that many teachers enjoy and often prefer guests coming in to their classrooms to present and discuss topical information with their students. Our presenters visit elementary, junior high and high school classrooms throughout the school year and offer a variety of presentations. If your school is located in Edmonton or the surrounding area and you wish to arrange for one of our presenters to come and visit your classroom, please visit the Book a Presentation link. This page also contains contact information for the John Howard Society nearest you.
Our Youth Criminal Justice Act and Bullying resources are now available for review
*Resources in the Drugs, Family Violence and Gangs sections are currently under development.
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