THE FIRST AMENDMENT
An Internet-Based Treasure Hunt

Created by
Judeen L. Aberle
NISD

Introduction | Questions | The Big Question | Internet Resources

Introduction
The objective of this treasure hunt is to deepen your understanding of the rights protected by the First Amendment.  Use the Internet resources to answer the 10 questions that follow. When you have finished, answer the Big Question that asks you to combine a lot of what you learned through the treasure hunt into a "big picture."

Questions

  1. What types of situations are protected by the right to speak?
  2. How is the freedom of speech limited?
  3. What laws regulate our freedom to "establish" a religion?
  4. How do the laws protect people from dangerous religious groups?
  5. How could these laws infringe on, or interfere with, our right to practice a religion?
  6. Explain what happened in one court case dealing with our right to petition the government.
  7. Describe one situation where people have protested against the government.
  8. How do other countries handle freedom of speech, religion, and assembly?
  9. Why does our government believe we should have the First Amendment?

 


 
 

The Big Question

How valuable is the First Amendment?

 


 
 

Internet Resources

First Amendment

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=First+Amendment&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3Dc4ac7e0b2b31f493%26amp%3BclickedItemRank%3D1%26amp%3BuserQuery%3DFirst%2BAmendment%26amp%3BclickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fw3.trib.com%252FFACT%252F%26amp%3BinvocationType%3D-%26amp%3BfromPage%3DNSCPIndex&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fw3.trib.com%2FFACT%2FProvide a list of Internet resources (online).

Freedom of Assembly

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=abortion+and+protests+and+free+speech&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3Dc7336dc202c588a6%26amp%3BclickedItemRa

 

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=abortion+and+protests+and+free+speech&p

 

http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199803/page32.html

 

http://www.patrobertson.com/Teaching/Teachingonfirstamendment.asp

 

www.news.harvard.edu/specials/workers/

 

rentersnews.net/1_main/services.shtml

 

www.thetartan.org/95/11/news/392.asp

 

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=pinakes&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3D7ef8e48fcfd6679b%26amp%3BclickedItemRank%3D1%26amp%3BuserQuery%3Dpinakes%26amp%3BclickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.hw.ac.uk%252FlibWWW%252Firn%252Fpinakes%252Fpinakes.html%26amp%3BinvocationType%3D-%26amp%3BfromPage%3DNSCPIndex&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hw.ac.uk%2FlibWWW%2

Firn%2Fpinakes%2Fpinakes.html

 

www.southend.wayne.edu/days/2002/nov/1182002/1182002.htm

 

Speech

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-pc.html

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2001/05/07/prsa0507.htm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0111150128nov15.story?coll=chi-leisure-hed

http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-209083.html

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43583,00.html

 

Religion

http://teacher.scholastic.com/upfront/issue/debate/7index.html

http://www.ncpa.org/bothside/krt/krt123199b.htm

http://www.kstatecollegian.com/issues/v104/su/n158/news/opn.edboard.html

Photos

www.stanford.edu/~kcoleman/ photos/siw-protests.jpg

asia.cnn.com/2001/ASIANOW/east/01/06/tiananmen.papers/

www.infurmation.com/infurdesk/incident/incident.htm

www.charleslipson.com/speechtopics/World-America-Made.htm

International Situations

http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/sep/malay0922.htm

www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=1908

www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/17551

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/int-a04.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/defa-d13.shtml