Students will learn how the Supreme Court decides which cases to decide through a lesson plan and activity.
This works very well with students; the information is easy to understand [high school seniors] and yet it's fairly complex in its ideas. The activity has always been a popular one for my students - it gets them discussing in ways that really advance everyone's understanding of what is 'cert worthy' and what is not - often, of course, based on opinion but routinely grounded in the reasoning laid out in the assignment.
I have used this for my government class for years and I have started to use it as a connecting activity for my Modern World History Class
Fun and engaging.
