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Grade Level: 3-5
Academic Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies
Duration of service: 1-2 Months
Character Virtues: Giving, Civic Virtue and Citizenship, Responsibility
Service Areas: Human Services, Public Safety
Service Learning Project:
During a semester long project, students will research, investigate,
and contact all local volunteer organizations. Students will become
familiar with community agencies that need volunteers to meet
challenges within the community. Then students will design and
construct an informative flyer about community needs using technological
knowledge and skills. Students will have “A Mailing Party,”
sharing treats as they stuff envelopes with the flyer they have
completed. Representatives from the volunteer agencies and parents
will be invited to participate in the “Mailing Party.”
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will become familiar with community agencies
that need volunteers to meet challenges within the community.
Standard: Social Studies Standard #5 Civics, Citizenship, and
Government
Learning Goal: Students will design and construct an informative
flyer about community needs using technological knowledge and
skills.
Standard: MST Technology Standard #5
Service
Community need: Lack of volunteer participation of community
members
Possible Community Partners: all local volunteer agencies (ex.
fire department, Red Cross, hospitals)
Objective: Students will increase the public’s awareness
of the need to volunteer in the community.
Objective: Students will create a document to inform community
members about specific volunteer needs, opportunities, and agencies
within their community.
Character
Virtue: Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Objective: Students will understand the needs of their community
and the community’s role in meeting these needs.
Virtue: Responsibility
Objective: Students will explain why volunteering is a citizen’s
responsibility.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will brainstorm a list of volunteer organizations
within their community.
2. Students will learn how volunteers can help the community.
They will research and investigate all local volunteer organizations.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will write letters to each organization asking for
information regarding their needs. (Information can be in the
form of a letter or speaker.)
2. Students will create a written document to inform community
members about specific volunteer needs, opportunities, and agencies
within their community.
3. Students will increase the public’s awareness of the
need to volunteer in the community by distributing the document
(flyer) to residents.
4. Students will have “A Mailing Party”, sharing treats
as they stuff envelopes with the flyer they have completed.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will discuss what it means to be a giving
and responsible volunteer.
2. (written) Pre-Activity: Have you ever helped someone in your
community? How did it make you feel? What responsibilities do
you have at home and in your school community? Post-Activity:
How have your thoughts changed about volunteerism? What volunteer
activities do you plan to do in the future? How else would you
encourage citizens to volunteer?
3. (performance) Students will draw a picture of themselves performing
a volunteer activity as an adult (responsibility).
Demonstration Activity
The celebration will occur as part of the mailing party. Representatives
from the volunteer agencies and parents will be invited to participate
in the “Mailing Party.
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