The TrueJury Project
The Classroom Series
Free lesson plans built on the cases in our docket. Each one is a complete class: the run sheet with the words to say, the student handouts ready to print, the discussion script, and the standards it meets. Print them and teach. Nothing to install, no student accounts, and no data collected from anyone in your room.
Why these are free and always will be. Our jury is the public, and a classroom that reads a case carefully is exactly the kind of juror we want. Teachers get a finished lesson; we get people who have read a file before they render a verdict. That trade is the whole business model at this level, so there is no upsell coming.
From the Clerk's desk
Lessons other teachers have already commissioned. Reusing one costs nothing and takes no wait; the case in each is fictional and unreviewed, so read before you teach.
20 minutes · High school, grades 9 to 12The Backpack ProblemCommissioned to teach: During lunch, Mia leaves her phone in her backpack in the classroom. When she returns, the phone is gone. Noah was the only other student in the room. Noah says he never touched Mia\'s backpack, but a45 minutes · High school, grades 9 to 12The Case of the Missing HomeworkCommissioned to teach: Make an easy first trial getting students used to mock trial. Make it school related45 minutes · High school, grades 9 to 12Objection, Your HonorCommissioned to teach: Courtroom terminology45 minutes · High school, grades 9 to 12Same Facts, Different BarCommissioned to teach: reasonable doubt45 minutes · High school, grades 9 to 12When Fear Becomes a DefenseCommissioned to teach: the elements of self defenseTell us what you need next
The lessons above are hand built on real cases and read by a human before they publish. For everything else there is the Clerk, which drafts a lesson on any legal idea you name, around a fictional case, in about a minute. If one of those comes out well, send it back to us and we will sharpen it and publish it here with your name on it: [email protected], subject line "Classroom."
For law faculty, the stronger offer is the one no school can run alone: your students draft opposing briefs, and our public jury votes on which brief persuaded them. Real feedback from lay jurors on real advocacy. Same address, same subject line.