LENDING LIBRARY

Law-related education materials, including books, lesson plans, mock trials and videos are available for checkout for two weeks from our lending library. To check out materials, please e-mail Utah LRE at lre@icw.com. The materials will be shipped to you at no cost.   The teacher/school will need to pay the cost of return mail to the office.   For the list of elementary materials available, click here.  For the list of secondary materials available, click here.

LESSON PLANS

Utah LRE has gathered and developed lesson plans to help teachers teach civic education to our youth and communities.  A Law and Citizenship Manual for both elementary and secondary schools has been compiled, and is available free of charge, to Utah teachers.   The individual lesson plans in the elementary manual are available for downloadhere, and the Table of Contents for the secondary manual can be viewed by clicking here.  Individual lesson plans can be obtained by e-mailing the Project at lre@icw.com.

PUBLICATIONS

Utah Law Related Education produces publications, including lesson plans, to enable those who teach our youth and communities to integrate law-related education into their curriculum.  Publications include Your Day in Court, distributed to teachers before court tours; the annual Mock Trial Competition Handbook; Elementary and Secondary Law and Citizenship Manuals, lesson plans which are correlated to the Social Studies Core Curriculum; Conflict Resolution for Schools and Communities, a training and resource manual; Conflict Manager Training Manual for Elementary schools; Conflict Manager Training Manual for Secondary Schools; and Practical Law in Utah.

For additional resources and information about law-related education contact:

National Law-Related Education Resource Center
American Bar Association
321 Clark St. 20th floor, Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 988-5735 Fax: (312) 988-5494
e-mail:  abapubed@abanet.org Web: www.abanet.org/publiced/resources/home.html

Center for Civic Education
5145 Douglas Fir Road
Calabasas, CA 91302-1440
Phone: (800) 350-4223 Fax: (818) 591-9330
e-mail:  center4civ@aol.com Web: www.civiced.org

Constitutional Rights Foundation
601 South Kingsley Drive
Los Angelas, CA  90005
Phone: (213) 487-3118 Fax: (213) 386-0459
e-mail:  todd@crf-usa.org Web: www.crf-usa.org

Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
407 South Dearborn, Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: (312) 663-9057
Fas: (312) 663-4321
Web: www.crfc.org

Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center
345 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD  21201
Phone: (410) 347-3118 Fax: (410) 347-3119
e-mail:  padpscla@aol.com Web: www.pad.org

Street Law, Inc.
1600 K Street, NW Suite 602
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202)293-0088  Fax:  (202) 293-0089
e-mail:  clearinghouse@streetlaw.org Web: www.streetlaw.org

The Bill of Rights Institute
200 North Blebe Road, Suite 1050
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: (703) 894-1776 Fax: (703) 894-1791
e-mail:  Web: www.BillofRightsInstitute.org

Administrative Office of the Courts
450 South State Street0
Salt Lake City, Utah
Speakers request form accessible on the Web: www.utahcourts.gov

WEBSITES

The project regularly receives information from the national organizations about new web sites and/or lesson plans. If you are interested in accessing this information, click here.