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Title - Community - Service Project - Part 2
By - Marie Allen
Primary Subject - Social Studies
Secondary Subjects - Language Arts, Other
Community Unit Table of Contents:
Grade Level - 3-6
Service Project - Part 2
TSW: Design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
TSW: Create and organize a service project.
TSW: Carry out their service project as a class.
Activity:
This lesson is more difficult to plan since the project will be student driven. However, the activities to help the students plan their project include these steps. Research the project. http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/students/service/ has an excellent student section on service learning that can help to generate ideas for planning the project. Students will have to determine exactly what will be done to complete the project. They will need to determine whether or not it can be done during school time, and how long it might take. If it involves a local organization, they can call and arrange for a guest to come in and speak about the organization's work. If it is a beautification project, the students will need to determine whose permission they need to complete their project (i.e. principal's permission to paint a mural).
The students will have to brainstorm all the possible jobs needed to carry out the project and make sure that everyone has a job. One of the jobs will be a photographer. Several students will be trained to use the school's digital camera to record the steps of the project.
Once the project is planned, the students will begin the steps, whether that means designing a mural and finding a location for it, or getting the necessary materials to do a neighborhood trash clean-up.
Materials: Will vary with project.
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