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Grade Level: k-2
Academic Areas: Language Arts
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Caring, Justice and Fairness
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring
Service Learning Project:
To create/implement a school-wide campaign that will raise awareness
and instill compassion for community members with disabilities.
Introduce the children to specific disabilities initially through
literature (i.e. Moses goes to the concert; deafness) and videos.
Contact representatives from various organizations i.e. (Helen
Keller Society, Guide Dog Association) to arrange classroom visit
so that students can better understand their challenges. Primary
children will become the school leaders in completing a survey
that identifies how user friendly school is for people with specific
disabilities. Children will advocate positive messages through
posters inter class discussion and make recommendations to administrators
that will improve accessibilities throughout the school.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Children will learn how to effectively communicate
by creating posters about tolerance and respect.
Standard: (2) The Arts
Learning Goal: Students will complete a survey to determine if
their school is user friendly for people with disabilities.
Service
Community need: Lack of direct attention within the school to
the accessibility needs of the physically challenged.
Possible Community Partners: National Association for Hearing,
Guide Dog Association, United Cerebral Palsy, National Association
for the Blind.
Objective: To raise the awareness of younger children to the challenges
people experience with various disabilities.
Objective: Children will make recommendations to adapt their school
to become more accessible to those with disabilities
Character
Virtue: Caring
Objective: To listen and be concerned about members of our school
and community who are physically challenged.
Virtue: Justice and Fairness
Objective: To teach the children to advocate and adapt their environment
for the needs of persons with disabilities.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
After completing a unit on the five senses, teacher will read
literature depicting the lose of a sense and how it creates a
disability.
(i.e. Moses Goes to a Concert, by ________________).
Invited members from various support and Advocacy Agencies will
present and demonstrate various techniques used by their members
to meet their challenges.
Key Service Activities
Children will conduct a simple survey to examine the accessibility
for handicapped people throughout the building.
Children will provide recommendations to administrations to make
changes in and around their building using posters and a map of
the school showing areas that need to be made accessible for the
physically challenged.
Children will advocate positive messages through posters and interclass
discussions .
Key Reflection Activities
(oral) Children will role play the difficulty of a person who
cannot express his/her needs using language and how they could
“listen” to that person’s needs.
(written) Students write or draw about their experience talking
to the other classes about disabilities and discuss how the virtues
of justice and fairness were addressed.
(performance) Children will perform a skit depicting characters
with specific disabilities highlighting their understanding, compassion
and kindness.
Celebration Activity
Unveiling of students’ recommendations and map of school
depicting areas to be made accessible. Parents, agency advocates,
community leaders various school administrators will be invited
to attend.
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