Service+Learning+Ideas

Service Learning Ideas

Recycling: Based on the European style system

Foreign Language: School guides; community guides

ELL Student Teaching

Reading Buddies at the elementary level; lunch buddies

Student mentoring with the Juvenile Justice System

Shake it Up: Shakespeare in the younger grades; teaching moral themes in the community

Understanding and acceptance in novels among student

Elderly: any novel; lit circle discussion groups, oral stories, ethnography

Senior projects: choose a topic, become involved in learning through the community (homelessness, poverty, etc.), conclude with a an action plan. Possible conclusions is that the class adopts one of the projects and comes together and have that as a class project. What pushes someone into a gang? What causes homelessness? What contributes to poverty?

Surveys: Taking issues, surveying peers, inquiry!!! (social networking, texting, etc.) create an informative brochure for parents, etc.