Category: supreme court
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History in the Kitchen: Origins of the Supreme Court, RBG, and Ratatouille
Marbury v. Madison The tradition of judicial review began with a Supreme Court Case decided in 1803. In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court used the power of judicial review for the first time- that is, their power to determine whether a law is constitutional or not. When it became apparent that John Adams, a…
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Race & Judicial Review
After our study of Marbury v. Madison, we have always had students look at judicial review through a modern lens. For many years, students studied and argued federal Supreme Court cases related to children and education. They could choose to work with cases such as Tinker v. DesMoines or NJ v. TLO. This year, however,…
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Podcast Preparation
Ah the Podcast. This handy invention has innumerable uses in the classroom. Students can create or listen or do both! I’ve learned the usefulness of the Podcast because of an unwanted snow day that took much needed class time away from me. My class has been studying four Supreme Court cases for the past week.…
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Checks & Balances
Any time my students are given the opportunity to “do” history they usually jump in head first and with great enthusiasm. This is why when my colleague Ken had an idea for the students to experience checks and balances by actually taking part in the system through scenarios created by us I climbed aboard. The…