With our Government unit coming to a close, we thought it would be fun to do a real life simulation of how rules and laws effect a community. The class was split into the three groups responsible for laws. We had a city council to create our law, judges to interpret our law, and police to enforce our law. At our town meeting, I met with the council who decided on three different possible laws. Then it was put to our entire class for a vote. Each student filled out a voter registration card and went to their polling place to cast their vote. The law that came to pass was that any time students came to the carpet they would need to Army crawl. Next I sat in on the judges chambers where they decided that anyone who broke the law would be required to dance like a ballerina for a minute. On the day of the law, the police officers sent anyone who broke it to "jail" which was set up at the round table. Two times a day, "offenders" could make bail by dancing like a ballerina while the judges watched.
This day was A LOT of fun! Students got to see the lawmaking process all the way through and what happens when laws are broken. By the end of the day everyone, offender or not, was just dying to dance like a ballerina. Enjoy some pictures of the event!
Dancing like ballerinas:
Army crawling:
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