Target: distinguish a social/venue rule from a law and ask who makes, interprets and enforces it. Prepare: Card A, rule-or-law aid.
- Launch · 2 min. Show the “criminal offence” assertion on Card A. Ask which source would have to exist before it could be trusted.
- Model · 4 min. Put the table rule beside the club request. Both may organise behaviour; neither card identifies valid legislation creating a criminal offence. Explain that a school may apply its own conduct process without turning the conduct into a crime.
- Guided reading · 5 min. Partners label maker, intended audience, enforcer and consequence for each instruction. Put “unknown” where the card is silent. Discuss why even a useful rule needs an identifiable authority and fair application.
- Practice route · 7 min. Select a Day 1 route. Make a supported two-sentence decision about the volunteer's claim and name one primary source to check.
- Audit · 4 min. Give a wrong draft: “All rules are laws if a security worker says so.” Learners correct source and enforcement logic, without assuming an actual Queensland by-law exists.
- Exit · 3 min. “What would turn an invented criminal claim into a testable legal claim?” Key: an identified jurisdiction, valid current legal instrument and relevant provision; facts must still be proven.