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Grade Level: K-2
Academic Areas: Health
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Responsibility, Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Service Areas: Environmental, Human Services
Service Learning Project:
A project that partners k – 2 students with JHS students.
During a unit on the environment students will learn to recognize
important aspects of their community. Students will work in teams
with the junior high student partners to plan, clean and maintain
a specific area in a specified amount of time. The Junior High
Leadership groups will consist of seventh to eighth grade students
who will partner and direct elementary students during the project.
Student teams will make recommendations about how these cleaned
up spaces could be used for the benefit of the community.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will be able to describe
a safe and healthy environment and identify the problems within
their surrounding environment.
Standard: Health, Physical education, and Family
and Consumer Sciences Standard #2, A safe and healthy environment
Learning Goal: Students will identify and evaluate
possible solutions to improve the blocks in the community.
Standard: MST#7, Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Service
Community need: Surrounding properties and vacant
lots are littered with debris making it unclean and unsafe for
neighborhood children.
Possible Community Partners: Local hardware
stores, community leaders, civic organizations and senior citizen
centers, faith based group, residents and local colleges
Objective: Students will assist junior high
Leadership Groups in cleaning up the surrounding neighborhoods.
Objective: Students will maintain gardens, birdfeeders
and monitor neighborhood for debris.
Character
Virtue: Civic virtue and citizenship
Objective: Students will work cooperatively
to create a safe and clean environment within the community.
Virtue: Responsibility
Objective: Students will create a plan of action
for continued maintenance.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. The junior high partners will lead a discussion with the elementary
students about the differences in trash and treasures. During
the discussion, a list will be compiled and the trash and treasures
categorized. Next, they will compare and contrast the items listed
to determine what to do with the various items.
2. Students will tour local neighborhood blocks and identify and
record areas that are in need of care and repair. The record keeping
can be the form of photos, to-do lists or drawings.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will go to their assigned neighborhood block on a
rotating basis to clean, repair and beautify the area.
2. Students will develop presentations to make to the school,
block association and/or PTA about areas they have beautified.
They will give recommendations for use of the space.
3. Students will create and deliver flyers to residents of the
neighborhood about the project.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will discuss how local residents view their
efforts and the improvements on the block. The focus will be on
how the adults view students as responsible citizens.
2. (written) Students will keep a written or picture journal to
record their feelings of citizenship and responsibility during
the project.
3. (performance) Students will create a photo timeline that will
reflect their contributions to the community.
Demonstration Activity
Clean Up Party” organized by school and residents during
final big clean up. Parents and community members are welcome
to volunteer in the celebration. (food, supplies, cooking, etc.).
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