Rules & Laws Lesson: Why We Have Rules and Laws, Grades 3-5

What is the difference between a rule and a law? This lesson starts with a question every student can answer: what if a game had no rules at all? Students picture a basketball game where every player makes up their own rules, and then learn the one question that sorts rules from laws: who made it?

What's inside

• 18 slides, with speaker notes on all 18
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 6 pages (lesson plan, reading, worksheet and answer key together)

Answer key included

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