Bava Kama in Flowchart Form

Something I've been working on

I teach Mishnah Bava Kama and have evolved my own method of teaching dinei nezikin where I have students think through the application of laws through a sort of mental flow chart. You start by asking what category of damage the given case falls under (What damaged? Animal or object? Does the object move or not?) and then further questions designed to figure out what law applies (“why did the animal damage? Malicious intent, for its own benefit, or just doing normal things?” “How many times has the animal damaged previously?” “Do we expect this animal to damage in this way?”). I’ve had a lot of success with my middle schoolers over the years with this approach.

So I decided to turn it into an actual flow chart. Just to see what would happen. And I think I’ve finally finished it (at least until I expand the section on damage done by people) and I’m pretty proud of it.

EDIT: Found a mistake, rejiggered it, uploaded new picture, I think I’m done now

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