Read the Fine Print
Texting While Driving
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
This is a civil suit arising from a car crash that may have been caused by texting while driving. In a classroom, students play all the parts in this scripted simulation. In a courtroom, a real federal judge presides and attorneys coach the student lawyers at the counsel tables. Pre-assigned students play the parts of witnesses. All other students are jurors who deliberate in groups of 12. The trial simulation is followed by a conversation with probation officers about 15 decisions or situations -- like texting while driving -- that young people do not realize can have legal and long-term consequences.
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Secondary
- Collection:
- U.S. Courts