Are You Smarter Than a 12th Grader?

February 20, 2008 in Lesson Plans, The Way It Were
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Chances are, you are. My students are 12th graders, so, by definition, they are not.
I had a gameshow-type contest between two halves of the class as a review for how a bill becomes a law. I projected my diagram onto the whiteboard, and I asked somewhat tricky questions to see if they could fill it [...]