what are some good classroom teaching resources?

Question

I'm doing a teaching session on violence, policing, and control.

I need to find some engaging classroom activities that i could use to teach about these topics. I'm hoping to be able to do something that can get the students involved as opposed to merely lecturing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I will give you some resources and hope they will help you.
There are organization who fight against violence.

here are some hintful and helpfull links.

http://www.aap.org/pubed/ZZZJ4RC2R7C.htm?%E2%8A%82_cat=1
http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Ffr%3Dytff1-%26p%3Dteachers%2520violence%2520organization%26ei%3DUTF-8&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Frc%2Fissues%2Fviolence-and-safety%2F&levelId=1000&baddebt=false

http://www.cln.org/themes/youth_violence.html

Answer 2

I don't know if you can use it or not, but there are some great video clips that show these wicked psychology experiments.
One was done to compare to Nazi germany, and they would take people in to a room and they would see how much voltage they would apply to a random person for answering questions wrong just because they were told to. They didn't really hook up the other person, but just about everyone shocked the person with lethal voltages even after the other person stopped responding.

The other one they took like 8 random people, and randomly chose 4 guards and 4 prisoners and then let them act their parts for a week. They had to stop short because it got way out of control. The guards started taking away food from the prisoners and doing these awful punishments. I think there were beatings too, the prisoners planned a revolt and escape. I think it got pretty violent in the end.

I don't know the scientists behind them, but if you're teaching high school I bet none of your students have seen these and they'd be interested in them.