PODCASTS

Creating a podcast allows teachers to use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them.

Students can use it to share learning experiences. It also provides them with a world-wide audience that makes learning meaningful and assessment authentic.  The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool.

Source:  http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/podcasts/



Help your students build Contract Law vocabulary using podcasts

Podcasts: Law Vocabulary

Using GAMES To Teach

Using GAMES to teach? Yeah right!

Making learning fun motivates students and helps them pay attention and stay focused on the subject.

•One reason to promote educatonal games is to encourage students to learn outside of class. Young adults will go out of their way to play games, even a single game, for hours on end.

•There is also evidence that games allow students to focus well enough to learn better. Lepper and Cordova, 1992 have found that rewriting a lesson with a story context combined with a challenge for the student to overcome (in other words, making it into a game) significantly improves the learning performance of children.                                                                               

Source: http://serc.carleton.edu/3776

The following games may be used to teach or review business contracts:

Contract Law Jeopardy (PowerPoint)
Contract Law Jeopardy (Promethean Board)
Fun trivia
Activity sheet (Crossword Puzzle)
Contracts reviewed : This lesson can be used as an introduction or review game.

Video Resources on contracts

Why use videos in the classroom?

"As educators, our goal of course, is to get students energized and engaged in hands-on learning experiences, and video is clearly an instructional medium that generates excitement. Using sight and sound, video is the perfect medium for students who are auditory or visual learners. Video taps into emotions which stimulate and enthrall students, and it provides an innovative and effective means for educators to address the curricular concepts.

We all know from experience that the more engaged your students are, the more interactive your lesson is, the more your students will enjoy, learn from and retain information from your lessons. It may surprise you to think of video as a means for interactive instruction, but video is a very flexible medium. The ability to stop, start and rewind it can be invaluable. You can stop the video and challenge your students to predict the outcome of a demonstration, or elaborate on, or debate about, a point of historical reference. You can rewind a particular portion of a show to add your own review or view a segment in slow motion to ensure that your students understand a key concept. Furthermore, you can ensure interactivity by replicating activities, workshops, demonstrations and experiments in your classroom environment."

An excerpt from the article "Using video in the classroom" By Lori Griffin, Curriculum Director, Library Video Company
To read the full article please click here!

The following offers a list of videos which can be used in contract lessons.
The People's Court- "Canceling a Contract" Part 1 [Dishwasher repairman gets soaked!]  
The People's Court- "Canceling a Contract" Part 2 [Dishwasher repairman gets soaked!]
Contract (Contract Business Law) - An explanation - Finance Dictionary
Contract Law: Offer
Contract Law: Introduction to Intent
Contract
Contract II

Lesson Plans and Resources

Creating fun and engaging lesson plans on the concept of 'business contracts' is a task that may require creativity and many hours of research. This page contains lesson plans from other sources that I have used in my class to teach contracts. Of course it may be necessary to adapt the lesson plans to suit your objectives for the lesson as well as the learners' needs.



Drafting Contracts Lesson Resources:
Andrew Berg-Model Lesson Plan

PowerPoint Presentation
Drafting Document
Sample Contract
Worksheet 1

Elements of a Contract Resources:
Introduction to contracts
Features of a contract
Judges in the classroom
Click Here! for some case summaries that you can use to discuss the elements of contracts
This Lesson plan utilizes the format of 'The Jerry Springer Show'. Click here

Termination of contracts PowerPoint Presentation

Other resources:
Wizznotes for notes and practice questions

Quizzes and Tests on Legal Aspects of a Business

Below is  a list of sites which you as a teacher can use to allow students to self test themselves. These quizzes and tests can help you measure your students' learning.

• http://tutor2u.net/law/quizzes/contractessentials/quizmaker.html 
• http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=legal-aspect-business-contracts

Introduction

Teachers and students alike are constantly faced with a dilemma to find resources such as games, videos, or websites which can be used to make the legal aspects section of the syllabus more interesting and fun. This blog is dedicated to compiling a set of resources and ideas that teachers may use to achieve this objective.

Feel free to add your comments and tell us how you used these resources in your lessons, some of which were created by other persons. Additionally, you may suggest resources that others can use.

Thank you for visiting. We hope that you find something on our blog that you can use to better teach the concepts of 'Legal Aspects of A Business'.