Making, Enforcing, or Interpreting?

1. Making, Enforcing, or Interpreting? So you want to be a Law Expert? Well, work through this training program to explore how rules and laws are made, interpreted and enforced in our community and country.

2. Definitions • Making Laws: Making laws means creating new rules or laws that the community has to follow • Enforcing Laws: Enforcing laws means making sure that the laws are followed and enforcing consequences for not following the laws. • Interpreting Laws: Interpreting laws means judging whether or not a person is following the law or not.

3. Your assignment… • Your job is to read through the situations on the next several slides. Then you must decide, as a team, whether the people in the situation are making, interpreting, or enforcing laws. • Download and print off this record sheet. Use it to record your team’s answers and the correct answers. • When you are finished, check your answers. Did you get at least 8 right? You’ve earned the Law Expert Certificate. Click here to print it off and take it to your trainer (teacher) to get it signed!

4. Situations • Situation 1 • Situation 2 • Situation 3 • Situation 4 • Situation 5 • Situation 6 • Situation 7 • Situation 8 • Situation 9 • Situation 10

5. Situation One • The City Council voted for a new law that skateboards will not be allowed on the sidewalks downtown. What is the City Council doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpretingEnforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

6. Situation Two • At your house, the rule is that bedtime is at 9:00 pm. Your mom decided that you could stay up until 9:15 pm and it would still be close enough to your bedtime. What is your mom doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpretingEnforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

7. Situation Three • While playing baseball you broke a window in the neighbor’s house. Since the rule was that you had to hit away from the house, Dad decided you needed to pay for the window to be fixed. What is Dad doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpreting Enforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

8. Situation Four • Your mom was driving down the highway at 75 miles per hour, but the speed limit was 70 miles per hour. A police officer pulled her over and gave her a speeding ticket. What is the police officer doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpreting Enforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

9. Situation Five • Mrs. K. and the student council decided that on Fridays everyone had to wear tennis shoes to school. What are Mrs. K. and the student council doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpreting Enforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

10. Situation Six • While you are playing basketball you accidentally trip someone. The referee decides that, since it was an accident, it is not a foul. What is the referee doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpreting Enforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

11. Situation Seven • A man went to a Target store and stole clothes. The store security guard caught him in the parking lot and arrested him. What is the security guard doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpretingEnforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

12. Situation Eight • Your big sister is watching you while your parents are gone. The house rule is that you are not allowed to watch grown up movies. Your sister decides that, since it is only rated PG, The Incredibles is not an adult movie and you can watch it. What is your sister doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpretingEnforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

13. Situation Nine • The 2nd and 3rd graders are having trouble choosing soccer teams at recess. Ms. Denise decides that they will play boys versus girls. What is Ms. Denise doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpreting Enforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

14. Situation Ten • One day, after Ms. Denise made the rule about soccer teams, only two girls wanted to play but there were six boys. The playground supervisor decided that, since it would be more fair, two of the boys would play with the two girls. What is the playground supervisor doing? Write your answer on your record sheet, then click on your answer below. MakingInterpretingEnforcing Back to the Situation Home Page

15. Congratulations! • You answered that question correctly! Give yourself a star on your recording sheet, and click the button below to return to the Situations page. WAY TO GO! Back to Situations Home Page

16. Nice Try… • You did not choose correctly. Think about the situation again and ask yourself these 3 questions. • 1) Is there a new law? If yes, it is making a law. • 2) Is there a punishment? If yes, it is enforcing a law. • 3) Is someone deciding if a law or rule has been broken? If yes, it is interpreting a law. • Now go back to the Situations page and take a second look at that situation. Decide on the correct answer, then move on.