Subject(s): Language Arts, Other, Social Studies Grades(s): Grades 6-7, Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5

By – Marie Allen

Community Unit Table of Contents:

• Unit Overview – What makes a good Community?
• This lesson asks What is Community?
• Here’s a lesson on Following Directions
• This worksheet goes with the Following Directions lesson
• Celebrating Diversity and Heritage are the topics of this lesson
• Here’s a section on Goal Setting
• This lesson looks at Community in Literature
• In this part students Explore the Multiple Intelligences
• Students find their most effective ways to learn in this lesson
• Teamwork is the subject of this lesson
• Here’s a collection of Community-Building Activities
• This is the first part of the Service Project
• Service Project Part 2…
• …and Service Project Part 3
• Here’s the Service Project Rubric

Service Project – Part 3

TSW: Design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
TSW: Reflect on the effect of their project.

Activity:
The class will review the pictures taken during the project. They will work together to place them in chronological order. Each student will pick one picture and create a book page for it. The page must include a caption of what is happening in the picture and a reflection of it. For example, “Here we are deciding what colors of paint we will need. We couldn’t agree so we had to take a vote.” The student will decorate the page and prepare it for publication.

Each student will also write a formal reflection detailing what they learned while working on the project. They will include what they learned about working together-what was easy, what was hard, how they feel the project benefits the community, and a personal story about working on it. All of the pages will be laminated and bound together in chronological order, with the students reflections interspersed.

Materials: Paper, markers, glue, decorating/scrapbooking materials, photographs from project, laminator, spiral binding machine.

Assessment: Assessment will be based on the students effort and cooperation throughout the project, and their written reflection. See Rubric.

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