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The Juvenile Justice Research Project: Teens Serving Time is the perfect way to teach effective research skills and implement a high-interest research project into your Criminal Justice Course, Psychology, or Sociology classroom! This digital resource also includes research project templates and graphic organizers that can be used with any topic!

You'll receive editable research project description sheets with requirements, research forms, source citation handouts, digital note-taking graphic organizers with research questions, and teacher grading rubrics for the two final research project options for students.

This project includes research-ready digital resources for the paperless classroom!

Can you edit student handouts and rubrics? YES!

Resources can be edited in Google Docs or downloaded and edited using Microsoft Word.

The Juvenile Justice Research Project also includes the following materials:

✅ Access to an attractive Google Site featuring images, photos, pre-search activities including an engaging music video on teen crime and embedded bookmarked links to specific juvenile justice related digital resources for research. Everything can be accessed by students from one link.

The work has been done for you! Access could not be any easier!

This resource includes the following materials:

✅ Detailed Teacher’s Pacing Guide

✅ List of CCSS Standards for ELA and Literacy in Social Studies

✅Two motivating, high-interest pre-search activities

✅Access to 11 videos for students to analyze as a different “source type"

✅ Research Digital Notecard and a Source Citation handouts

✅MLA source citation examples for websites and videos

✅ Research Project Description with Requirements handout

✅ Two final project options for differentiation

✅ Juvenile Justice Project Rubrics for both project options

✅ 50+ websites on juvenile justice and teen incarceration documentaries

✅ PDF Guide with digital Drive resource links and directions for Office users

✅ Day-by-Day Implementation and Pacing Guide with Teacher Notes

Research Links

The digital resources include a total of 41 websites and 11 video documentaries on teens serving time and issues/problems within our criminal justice system. This project requires students to not only analyze online sources but to also analyze video media as a different “source type.”

Final Project Differentiation

After conducting research and saving relevant images, students will showcase their learning by either creating a juvenile justice slides presentation or they can create a research-based infographic using a website (such as Piktochart or Canva). Piktochart is a free website and is user-friendly. A tutorial video link on using the website Piktochart is included.

Teacher Project Rubrics for a Juvenile Justice Slides Presentation and Juvenile Justice Infographic are also included in your purchase.

Implementation Ideas

Social Studies teachers (Criminal Justice Law, Psychology, Sociology, and Civics) can supplement a study on juvenile crime, the impact of incarceration on our youth, and as a supplementary activity on the topic of school to prison pipelines or as an example of current social justice issues.

The Juvenile Justice Research Project is designed for grades 9th-12th grades and will take a week too complete. From start to finish, this product provides a comprehensive research project accessible online - no copies, no hassle, and no extra work for the teacher!

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