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Grade Level: 9-12
Academic Areas: Health, Physical Education, FCS
Duration of service: Semester Long
Character Virtues: Giving, Caring
Service Areas: Human Services, Public Safety
Service Learning Project:
Students will work with the local RSVP and Office for the Aging.
As an initial planning activity, students, teachers, and parents
will team up with seniors to identify seniors in the community
that do not have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in their
homes. Safe Homes Teams will then solicit and encourage support
from local and national hardware/lumber stores (Lowes, Home Depot,
True Value) to donate smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. Initial
assessment and identification of seniors in need can occur during
and after school. Saturdays during the semester will be scheduled
for installation visits. Seniors needing installation will be
scheduled for service calls. Safe Homes Teams, consisting of at
least one RSVP member and several students and parents will perform
service calls to install the detectors. Academic connection is
through Health, Physical Education , and Family and Consumer Sciences
standard # 2.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: . Students will learn about incidences of home
fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Standard: H, PE & FCS # 2
Learning Goal: Students will acquire the knowledge and ability
necessary to create and maintain a safe environment.
Standard: H, PE & FCS # 2
Service
Community need: Fire and carbon monoxide safety in the homes
or seniors.
Possible Community Partners: RSVP, Office of Aging, Fire Departments,
and hardware stores.
Objective: Students will solicit local hardware stores to donate
smoke/CO2 detectors.
Objective: Students will install smoke/CO2 detectors in senior’s
homes.
Character
Virtue: Giving
Objective: Students will recognize limitations of the elderly
and their need for assistance with small chores.
Virtue: Caring
Objective: Students will understand the vulnerability of the elderly
and develop a willingness to reach out to them.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will work with RSVP and Office for the Aging to develop
lists of those in need of smoke/CO2 detectors. Once compiled they
will work with their RSVP teammates to develop schedules for installation.
2. Contacts at local fire departments will be established and
Safe Home Teams will get basic training in smoke/CO2 safety issues
from local fire representatives. Pamphlets, and educational materials
will be solicited from and donated by local fire departments.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will provide seniors with information and discuss
basic fire safety, CO2 issues, and detector installation and maintenance.
2. Safe Homes Teams will install detectors for seniors.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral – giving and caring) Students will read local
papers and clip articles about fire calls in the community. As
a classroom activity, they will discuss fire safety and the possible
and/or actual causes for fires they report on. They will discuss
how fire may be a greater threat to seniors and why and how that
threat could be reduced. They will then discuss how caring and
giving would effect threat levels to seniors.
2. (written – caring) Students will keep journals on their
planning activities, their involvement in Safe Home Teams, their
service, and their growing feelings of compassion toward the elderly.
3. (performance – giving) Students will role play detector
installation and demonstrate the caring behavior they will show
towards seniors.
Celebration Activity
Service days for installations will include group lunches for
the teams at which students will discuss the challenges and triumphs
they face installing equipment. Lunches will include parents and
seniors on the teams and will constitute a time for reflection,
celebration, and social interaction.
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