Project TIPS CONLAW Workshop

Content Theme: Religion and the First Amendment

Lehman College November 1, 2004

8:30 a.m. Review of TIPS Requirements: High School Middle School

8:50 a.m. Introduction to Religion and the Constitution:

The First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses

CRITICAL Religion Lesson 1 (pp.93—99)

“What’s Your Opinion?” Survey *

Distinguishing the Two Religion Clauses: Handout 1B

9:30 a.m. How Did the Supreme Court Originally Define “Free Exercise?”

CRITICAL Religion Lesson 4: Reynolds v. U.S. (1878)

Role-play of Reynolds

Teaching Reynolds as a Moral Dilemma: Review of Kohlberg

10:00 a.m. BREAK

10:15 a.m. Using CompuLEGAL to Analyze

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah

Engel v. Vitale

10:30 a.m. Discussion of other Religion cases

Sherbert v. Verner

Employment Division v. Smith

Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Boerne v. Flores

11:00 a.m. Graduation Prayer in Public School: A School Board role-play

CRITICAL Religion Lesson 3

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Constructing your own surveys with OpinionPower.com

12:00 p.m. LUNCH (on your own)

1:00 p.m. Product 2: PowerPoint (due Nov.29)

PowerPoint Checklist

2:45 p.m. Online Evaluation

3:00 p.m. Adjourn