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Grade Level: K-2
Academic Areas: Interdisciplinary
Duration of service: 1-2 Months
Character Virtues: Giving, Caring
Service Areas: Human Services
Service Learning Project:
During a unit on Nutrition, students will learn about food groups
and learn about nutritional meals. They will learn about nutritional
needs in their community by having representatives from local
service agencies visit their classes. Students will organize a
school wide food drive (or penny drive leading to a shopping trip
at a local grocery). The teacher will contact local supermarkets
to donate food. Students will decorate boxes, baskets or bags
that will be used to distribute food. Students will make placemats
and cards for inclusion in the baskets, bags or boxes. Students
will sort food into boxes to include items from major food groups.
Baskets will be distributed to local families by local agencies.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will be able to identify the basic food
groups
Standard: Health, Phys. Ed., and Family/Consumer Sciences #2
Learning Goal: Students will create healthy and nutritional food
baskets for local families of various sizes.
Standard: Math, Science and Technology #1
Service
Community need: High demand on local food pantries results in
a lack of nutritional food for neighborhood families; local hunger.
Possible Community Partners: Social workers, school nurse/counselors,
churches, grocery stores, neighbors, post office, Scouts and local
service clubs.
Objective: Students will collect and sort nutritional food items.
Objective: Students will create and distribute food baskets and
placemats to local families.
Character
Virtue: Giving
Objective: Students will use their time and personal resources
to gather and create food baskets.
Virtue: Caring
Objective: Students will gain compassion for those less fortunate.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. The class will create an “Ideal Healthy Dinner Chart”
and keep an individual “5 Day Food Diary."
2. The students will compare and contrast the “Ideal Dinner”
and “5 Day Food Diaries” using the Food Pyramid.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will gather and sort various food items into baskets
according to family size. These will be distributed to families
determined by local service groups.
2. Students will create greeting cards and placemats to include
in the food baskets.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will share as a class how their Food Diaries
compared with the Food Pyramid. Create a Yarn Web based on healthy
food choices of students, i.e. “If you had three servings
of dairy products on Monday please stand up.” Throw yarn
ball to standing students. Discuss positive and negative effects
of their choices and why proper caring for our bodies is important.
Brainstorm the effects that missing one or two meals a day would
have on their health.
2. (written) Students will work in small cooperative groups to
compile lists of reasons someone doesn’t eat three healthy
meals a day. Next, they will formulate ways they can give of themselves
to solve these nutritional needs. Students may share their lists/solutions
in the form of posters or charts.
3. (performance) Each child will role-play the giving and receiving
of the food baskets utilizing caring words and body language.
After students have role-played each part, they will discuss their
feelings about each role. Review and discuss any inappropriate
behaviors.
Demonstration Activity
The class will have Healthy Food Party where they will share
with visitors what they did and learned during the project. Invitations
will be sent out to family members and all community volunteers
who helped in the project.
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