This resource lists appropriate films and TV programmes for students to watch in order to further their knowledge and understanding of topics taught in AS and A-Level law. It also aims to further enhance their interest and engagement in the course.
This resource lists appropriate reading material for students studying AS and A-Level Law. It aims to offer students the opportunity the further enhance their understanding of topics taught in the specification and to enhance their interest in the subject.
This resource gives students an overview of the top 10 universities to study law at undergraduate level.
The universities are numbered in order of their rank in teaching of law according to The Complete University Guide.
It covers the entry requirements for degrees beginning in 2019.
Suggestion: Print and laminiate and use alongside a map of the UK as a colourful and useful resource tool in your classroom.
This resource requires students to work in pairs or groups to consider which circle each behaviour fits into - Morally wrong (blue circle) or Illegal (red circle). The students should find this task difficult as there are several behaviours which could be in both. This is your chance to introduce the students to the relationship between law and morals, specifically the idea that a Venn diagram would be a more suitable method of categorising the behaviours and link it to Sir John Salmond’s idea of two intersecting circles. You could ask the students to create a list of behaviours they struggled to place in the middle of the two circles and identify these as examples of primary law’.
Behaviours include (but are not limited to): Murder, cheating in a game, downloading movies illegally, killing an animal for food, spitting, cannabis use.
You will need to print the resource and laminate the 3 A3 pages then cut out the behaviours and the two circles.
The resource comprises a Venn diagram, questions, tables and fill-in-the-blanks tasks for students to complete to revise the law and morals topic. The worksheet consists of four pages.
A Powerpoint presentation which could be used as an open evening presentation. It contains information about the OCR A-Level Law course, the examinations, what students should expect, suggested entry requirements, fun facts etc.
This resource is a match-up task whereby students are required to match the English phrase to the correct Latin. It includes terms such as actus reus, stare decisis, ultra vires, prima facie, ratio decidendi etc.
Law-related questions to place around the classroom (or school) to encourage non-law students to consider studying the subject. The resource includes questions such as ‘Can you kill someone in your sleep?’
I place them around the school prior to Y11 students choosing their taster day options.
A hangman game to introduce students to terms such as victim, defendant, verdict, trial, witness. It also includes terms of offences studied within the course e.g. murder, manslaughter, burglary etc.
This bundle is comprised of a suggested reading list, suggested TV and films list and a TED talks list, all relating to the study of AS and A-Level law. These resources can be used to introduce law to new students or to enhance students’ understanding of particular topics within the course.
This Powerpoint contains information about the OCR law course, the examinations, entry requirements (which can be altered to suit), what students should expect, legal careers, rules and various activities including murder/manslaughter cases, sentencing, key cases, who can sit on a jury (I also use a card sort to go along with this), and a discussion about how the law affects us.