Youth Attitudes and the Police: Teacher's Manual

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See "Law Related Education Project: Final Report" (1976) for a description of the project under which this teacher's manual was developed. All four supplementary teacher's manuals developed under this project are also available in Scholarworks@UA: "Lawmaking: Teacher's Manual" (5th grade); "Youth Attitudes and the Police: Teacher's Manual" (6th grade); "Courts and Trials: Teacher's Manual" (7th grade); "Juvenile Problems and the Law: Teacher's Manual" (8th grade).In 1976, Anchorage School District (ASD) and the Criminal Justice Center at University of Alaska, Anchorage, collaborated to develop a law-related curriculum for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade classrooms, with teacher's manuals written to supplement the basic texts chosen for the program, the "Law in Action" series by Linda Riekes and Sally Mahe Ackerly (West Publishing Company, 1975). This teacher's manual for the unit taught to sixth-graders, ""Youth Attitudes and the Police," focuses on the work and responsibilities of police officers, and their relationships with kids. The teacher's manual reflects improvements to the original lessons, supplementary classroom activities, supplementary media, and inclusion of Alaska-specific content such as local newspaper stories about police and Alaska community resources. Supplementary material in this teacher's manual does not cover every lesson in the original "Law in Action" unit.Subcontract under an Anchorage Criminal Justice Planning Agency grant to Anchorage School District (CJPA Award# 75-A-033)Note to teachers / Community Involvement / Law-Related Community Resources // LESSONS / Lesson 1. "Inside" or "outside" persons / Lesson 2. About authority / Lesson 3. Conflict with authority / Lesson 5. Look at police / Lesson 6. Stereotyping / Lesson 8. Police — Before and now / Lesson 9. Ride-alongs / Lesson 12. Rules governing police procedures / Lesson 13. Miranda / Lesson 14. You are there / Lesson 15. More classes at the police academy: You are there / Lesson 18. How much should citizens help enforce laws? Values Clarification / Role Playing / Case-Study / Community Resources – Media / The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments to the U.S. Constitution / Glossar