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Grade Level: 9-12
Academic Areas: Social Studies, Technology
Duration of service: Semester Long
Character Virtues: Responsibility, Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring
Service Learning Project:
Students in both social studies and technology education will
work with leaders of local social organizations to develop a Welcome
Wagon brochure for their community. Social studies students will
work with leaders of local community organizations to develop
a complete list of business services and community resources available
to residents. Technology education students will compile the gathered
data into a well designed, useful, and attractive brochure that
will be made available at local libraries, town halls, and other
government buildings. Social studies and technology students will
meet with local leaders to revise, edit, and finalize the brochure.
Students will then print and deliver the brochures to points of
distribution and will keep these sources well supplied.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Youth will learn which services are available
in their community, where to access them, and how they function.
Standard: 5 SS
Learning Goal: Youth will learn and apply effective computer design
skills to produce the chamber booklet.
Standard: 5 MST
Service
Community need: New community members need welcoming. Students
need to understand community resources available.
Possible Community Partners: Chamber of Commerce, Civic Organizations
Objective: Youth will help new residents understand which resources
are available in their community by producing an informative brochure.
Objective: Students will deliver and keep stocked locations where
brochures will be distributed.
Character
Virtue: Responsibility
Objective: Youth will work on an equal level with adult civic
organizations and take responsibility for their role in the process.
Virtue: Civic virtue and citizenship
Objective: Youth will produce a guidebook to their community.
This survival guide will be of great benefit to new members of
the community.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Youth will meet with leaders of community organizations and
research social services available in their community and how
they can be accessed.
2. Youth will learn how to use Quark Xpress software in preparation
for the design and layout process.
Key Service Activities
1. Youth will create an informative brochure for new community
residents.
2. Youth will deliver and keep stocked locations where the brochures
will be distributed.
3. Students will write and produce public service announcements
for local radio stations informing residents about the brochures.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) responsibility – Students will discuss which
social services they discovered during this project, why they
are valuable, and to whom they are available. They will also consider
what services are still needed in the community.
2. (written) civic virtue and citizenship –They will write
an essay about how their brochure can help community members access
those programs.
3. (performance) civic virtue and citizenship – Youth will
role play situations in which community members might benefit
from the programs they researched
Celebration Activity
Students will receive certificates of achievement signed by local
community organization leaders at a banquet held in their honor.
Parents and community organization leaders will be invited to
the celebratory banquet.
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