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Controversial Public Policy Issues | Making Civics Real: Workshop 7

This one hour video workshop visits a 12th grade Law class at Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota. Teacher JoEllen Ambrose engages students in a structured discussion of a highly controversial issue—racial profiling—and connects student learning both to their study of due process in constitutional law and to police procedure in their study of criminal law. She begins by having students individually complete an opinion poll, which they then discuss as a group, realizing that the issue of profiling becomes increasingly complex as examples of it get closer to their personal experience. Next, working in pairs, they delve into studying a research packet that JoEllen Ambrose has prepared, reading local and national sources on the topic of racial profiling. The next activity pairs students in a structured debate.

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PBS Learning Media

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