http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2008/06_practice/index.html
Does Practice Make Permanent?
This is a really cool project with a project guide. Students ask the question, What does it take to get really good at something? Are people experts because they are born with talent&lsqauo;or do they get to be expert by practice? They reflect on the service learning project by creating a video. A really cool project, thought you might be interested in reading about it.
Experiencing Tradition
What Can Kids Do to make a difference? They can share help each other learn
to communicate by sharing stories with the world. High
quality service learning projects must include student voice.
to communicate by sharing stories with the world. High
quality service learning projects must include student voice.
Read about the perspective of immigrant students in Bronx, New York.
Be sure to watch the video that discusses African marriage traditions. Video
is a great reflective project by Amina Seck, student and Liana Maris,
teacher.
http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2008/04_immigrant_students/index
.html
Approaches to Learning
Kids make a video about What it Really Takes to Get Good at Something. Great
Approaches to Learning service learning example.
Approaches to Learning service learning example.
ttp://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2008/06_practice/index.html
GIS: A Tool for Service
Check out the Helix High School students and their Geographic Information
Systems webpages. Student pages have a link to Community Projects blogs and
example projects.
http://stream.helixcharter.net/trevino/patrevi/GIS/Home.html
KIVA BREATHES LIFE INTO THE DREADED COUNTRY REPORT
Breathe some life into the dreaded Country Report. Make it meaningful by researching how to micro-lend to improve the life of another human being living in that country. KIVA.org helps connect small business entrepreneurs with those looking to lend. By researching different people living in different countries you open your eyes to real-life beyond what the encyclopedia says about the country. You learn what real people do to make money for themselves and their family and gain insight into the economics of a region. You gain perspective by comparing your understanding with what you thought you knew about the country and its people. You also gain understanding and tolerance for people who are different, living in very different circumstances. By integrating micro-lending into your Country Report you make learning real. You connect to real-communities and real-people and your research goes way beyond the encyclopedia. You can make a difference!
Check out kiva.org
IB AND SERVICE LEARNING A GREAT FIT!
Learner Profile
Analytical Thinking
Problem-based Learning
Creative Solutions
Relevant Curriculum
Real-Life Application
Primary Years Programme
Organizing Themes
Attitudes
Inquiry-based learning
Middle Years Programme
Fundamental Concepts: Communication, Holistic Learning, Intercultural Understanding
Areas of Interaction: All, especially Community and Service
Inquiry-based learning
Student-focused
Diploma Programme
CAS: especially Service
Career exploration
Get Ready for CAS
IB Looking ahead...
Primary (PYP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP) students learn how living a balanced life will help them be happier and healthier. The PYP and MYP also help to prepare them mentally, artistically and physically for success in completing their Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) requirements in the Diploma Program. Here's a sneak peek at CAS.
CAS stands for Creativity, Action and Service.
Creativity: arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
Action: physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle, complementing academic work elsewhere in the Diploma Programme.
Service: an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student. The rights, dignity and autonomy of all those involved are respect.
ATL, SKILLS AND COMMUNICATION
This inquiry-based, service learning project has it all. It's a great
example of a unit that can hit Approaches to Learning while incorporating,
research and communication skills as well as reflection and video design.
example of a unit that can hit Approaches to Learning while incorporating,
research and communication skills as well as reflection and video design.
Students ask the question...What does it take to get really good at
something? Are people experts because they are born with talent&lsqauo;or do they
get to be expert by practice? They reflect on the service learning project
by creating a video.
It even has a free project guide! Check it out at...
http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2008/06_practice/index.html
IB, ART and SERVICE
Thank you to the Pacific Beach Middle School's Leave a Legacy Club for creating this MYP Areas of Interaction Mural. [Advisor/Teacher: Jill Schenk]
SERVING UP INSPIRATION
SERVICE QUOTES for ARC Participants
“There’s a radical—and wonderful—new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world.” – Deborah Meier, educator (from: whatcankidsdo.org)
[FROM Teens with the Courage to Give]
To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not. -Robert F. Kennedy
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. -Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
[FROM Cathryn Berger Kaye’s--The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action]
If you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. -Yiddish Proverb
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell, Author
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs it lifeline.
-Kofe Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
A person’s mind stretched ot a new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wnedell Holmes, Jurist and Writer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, other transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe, Athlete
A pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.
-From To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Poet
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
-Anita Roddick, Activist and Founder of The Body Shop
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing. -Quincy Jones, Musician
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too. -Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux
The Earth is now ours; it is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.
-African Proverb
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
-Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
Good Character Service Learning Examples
Here are a ton of SL examples from all over the U.S. Check out the Good
Character website.
Character website.
http://www.goodcharacter.com/SERVICE/primer-10.html
Copyright Elkind+Sweet Communications / Live Wire Media.
Reprinted by permission. Copied from www.GoodCharacter.com
Cool service learning ideas
I'm prepping for the San Fran IB Annual Conference and found this cool
Service Learning idea from a school in Chicago. It's a unique idea that
could be used to teach/learn communication skills through Civics content.
Totally MYP.
Service Learning idea from a school in Chicago. It's a unique idea that
could be used to teach/learn communication skills through Civics content.
Totally MYP.
Voter Empowerment Workshop, Chicago, Illinois
Through the "Voter Empowerment Workshops" project, fifth grade students
worked in teams of ten with a teacher-mentor to plan workshops on various
political, social and economic topics related to elections. The workshops
were presented to adults, which included parents, guardians, community
members, etc., by the students during a special evening event. Specific
workshop themes varied but included: "We the People: The Importance of
Communicating with Government Officials," "The Right to Vote: A Play about
South Africa," "Bilingual Workshop: Where are your taxes going?" and "Surf
the Vote: Using the Internet to Find Out About Candidates." The project
stimulated participation in the democratic process and brought adults into
the school through a meaningful forum.
Is Your Charity Serving the Good Stuff?
Teach students to be wise consumers and evaluators of information. Charity
Navigator helps you research charities before sending them your hard-earned
dollars.
Navigator helps you research charities before sending them your hard-earned
dollars.
Free Service Learning Guide
Project Learning Tree has a free guide for k-8 environmental projects that
include some great service learning examples. Download your free guide
today.
include some great service learning examples. Download your free guide
today.
Green Service Learning Projects
Check out this awesome link to a list of great service learning projects.
This is where I found the listing of the skateboard park project.
This is where I found the listing of the skateboard park project.
Skateboarding is NOT a Crime!
Just stumbled across this and wanted to share the coolest, totally awesome, sweeeeetest Service Learning project ever. Teens reused materials to create a skatepark. Way to go green and go off at the same time. Go big or go home!
http://www.nagchaumpa.com/GreenSkateLab.htm">http://www.nagchaumpa.com/GreenSkateLab.htm
Skateboarding is Not a Crime!
LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD STUDENTS!
Volunteers, 10th grade and up are urged to help collect first-hand accounts
of U.S. Veterans and civilians who supported them in these wars:
of U.S. Veterans and civilians who supported them in these wars:
World War I (1914-1920)
World War II (1939-1946)
Korean War (1950-1955)
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Persian Gulf War (1990-1995)
Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)
Civilian supporters: war industry workers, USO workers, flight instructors,
medical volunteers, etc.
To sign-up or learn more visit The Veterans History Project website:
Service Learning Statistics
If you're looking for statistics about the benefits of service learning on
test scores, attendance, behavior and civic responsibility here's a resource
I suggest. This is a 2007 but some of the studies are older and I'd love to
find more recent data. E-mail me if you know of any newer "good stuff".
test scores, attendance, behavior and civic responsibility here's a resource
I suggest. This is a 2007 but some of the studies are older and I'd love to
find more recent data. E-mail me if you know of any newer "good stuff".
http://www.learnandserve.gov/pdf/07_0224_issuebrief_servicelearning.pdf
Orange County Students Serve the Good Stuff to Babies in Need
This website, from National Service Resources, highlights a successful
Service Learning project where students labeled "at-risk" provided comfort
to children in Intensive Care. Through investigation, reading and hands-on
service, they not only learned academic content, but their personal
experiences connected them to real-life issues in and beyond their local
community.
Service Learning project where students labeled "at-risk" provided comfort
to children in Intensive Care. Through investigation, reading and hands-on
service, they not only learned academic content, but their personal
experiences connected them to real-life issues in and beyond their local
community.
Title: "Using service-learning to introduce at-risk students to a broader
community"
Abstract (summary)
A class of 16 at-risk students in Anaheim's Youth and Family Resource Center
(YFRC) undertook the design, making, and delivery of pillows and care
packages for young patients confined to the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive
Care Unit (NICU/PICU) at the University of California, Irvine Medical
Center. The project had two goals: to extend the students' concepts of
community and to aid young children in need. Service-Learning Coordinator
Jim Perez submitted this effective practice in July 2006 as part of a report
on the success of Alternative, Community, and Correctional Education Schools
and Services (ACCESS) in Orange County, California
To learn more about this successful service learning experience visit...
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