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Grade Level: 9-12
Academic Areas: Science, Health
Duration of service: 1-2 Months
Character Virtues: Caring, Responsibility, Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Service Areas: Environmental, Human Services, Public Safety
Service Learning Project:
Students will collaborate with local Environmental agencies and
senior centers in both education and eradication of potential
West Nile infection in their community. With the aide of Environmental
agencies and local waste management offices students will eliminate
solid waste and litter that contributes to the breeding of mosquitoes
that carry the West Nile virus. Since virus most effects the elderly,
students will work with health care professionals to create an
informational brochure explaining the spread and prevention of
this potentially deadly virus. Student will deliver a short Power
Point presentation at the local senior centers.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Learning the cause, transmission, and target population
affected by West Nile Virus.
Standard: MST, #4, #6, and #7
Learning Goal: Students will learn strategies to help reduce mosquito
population.
Standard: MST, #4, #6, and #7
Service
Community need: Several cases of West Nile infection in the local
Senior population
Possible Community Partners: Environmental Agencies, County Health
Dept., Local Senior Centers, and Local Waste Management Dept.
Objective: To help eliminate those environments that breed the
mosquito that carries the West Nile Virus.
Objective: Students will increase the publics awareness of causes,
transmission, and prevention of West Nile infection.
Character
Virtue: Caring
Objective: Students will donate their time to collaboratively
create an informational pamphlet and power point presentation
to be used at local senior centers and nursing homes.
Virtue: Responsibility
Objective: Students will take an active role in cleaning up of
solid waste that contributes to the breeding of the mosquitoes
that carry West Nile.
Virtue: Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Objective: Students will take the knowledge gained through research
and collaboration with local agencies to share with school and
community organizations.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will learn about the causes and effects of West Nile
Virus.
2. Students will research what is currently being done to eradicate
west nile.
3. Students will research and make contacts with local Health,
Sanitation, and Senior Services offices and agencies.
Key Service Activities
1. Student will go into the community to clean up the environmental
breeding grounds that contribute to the spread of West Nile Virus.
2. Students will create and distribute brochures they have created
to local Senior centers and community organizations.
3. Students will create and present their powerpoint presentations
to local School / community groups and organizations.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral)Class forum – Students will conduct pre and post
project discussions on their successes, challenges and how effective
their project was with the target population, paying particular
attention to the three character virtues of caring, citizenship
and responsibility.
2. (written) Students will write an essay on what they learned
about how a community can work together to solve a environmental
/ health problem.
3. (performance) After project completion students will present
a summary of their project to the school and community organizations
involved with the program.
Demonstration Activity
Creating a scrap book and or bulletin board with pictures (before
and after cleanup), student presentations to target populations,
and student generated informational signs on West Nile prevention
to be posted where the most litter was collected. Implementing
a “Service Learning / Character Education Moment”
during school morning announcements. To invite all involved groups
and individuals to a picnic in a recently cleaned area.
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