Service learning projects

Class Service Learning Projects 

Here are a few service learning ideas from my classmates. More will be added later.

Chance-  xtranormal.com website: civic values, voting is not the only way to get involved.  Students pick an issue and try to help solve it.  Uses wiki's as a platform

Zarha- learning about voting rights, choose an important person that effected voting rights and make a lesson on that person. Use skype to connect with other students.

Michael- oral history/ nursing homes students interview old people and use that to make a digital story recording to make presentations and upload to youtube

Adam- voter registration, observing trends and makes students create ways to help people get involved, use the school news to motivate people to vote inside the school. Have booths to promote voting at the school.

Megan- human trafficking, makes students aware of this issue, four groups- what/how people are enslaved today, what the U.S is doing to stop it.  Goal- letter writing campaign to politicians to encourage people to write letters also, also spreads awareness of who the congress members are in the area.

Jen- military letter writing, create a wiki to write letters to all branches of the military, servicemen can write back and give them information.

Josh- honoring our veterans, interview a vet and ask many questions, before interview the students have to do research on the event, make a podcast 2 min and a blog about their experiences with the vet and let the vets know that they can view the website.

Jeremy- war on drugs, intentions of the war on drugs, create a wiki and then write a politician about what they think.

Megan g.- support a soldier, middle school, working through their school and community to get support for the troops(care packages). Try to get donations for specific soldiers connected to soldiers fighting oversees, make a video about any updates. Ask people to send in needed items, soldiers could write back and answer student's questions.

Elizabeth H.- helping underprivileged children, put together christmas boxes for people in need, make blogs and commenting on  other students blogs. Need to research the different opportunities available to help people.

Eric- Using internet to help the elderly, old people are lonely and sad.  Make students visit nursing home and interview them. work with residents to show them how to email and chat with family members.  Rate life satisfaction. Write a paper about what they learned and how what they did may have helped.  Students see if they made an impact.

Elizabeth J.-  increasing cultural awareness, lecture on immigration and have students poll the school and see where everyone's heritage comes from.  Get people to make contribute to a cultural fair in the school, with food and anything else.

Mallory- students pair up with habitat for humanity, students will determine the costs of building homes. Research people that do volunteer work for the program, interview families that have received homes- telling their story. Tie it in with what they learned about economics and how people lost their home.

Louisa- oral history, connecting past with the present. Students ask themselves questions about their lives- what they need or are worried about.  Ask old people what they were worried about when they were younger, compare that with what older people say. Video or tape the interview onto the wiki to share.  viewing party at the nursing home, bring food and drink, for the nursing people to watch and show they are still valued in the community.

Katie-  history affects us all, video, visit nursing home 3-4 times a semester, learn about the historical aspects that impacted their lives. Music the Weepies. 

Jeff- go to local parks and see how people affect the environment. Showing students how much trash is left at parks after people leave.  Go to the park and help clean up. Teaches kids about wildlife protection, make a blog or video about what they learned.

Glogster- online poster webpage, interactive poster. can add video and web sites. Glogster.edu- register students up to 200, very private. Look at glogster tutorial on youtube. Glogster.com/edu

Megan- Voter turnout, how info was dispersed during elections, how govn't affects peoples lives. Visit nursing home and make a podcast about the interviews from the elderly.  All tied to voting and media. Write a thank you letter to the elderly after they are finished.

Britt- Increase young voters turnout, should be done on an election year.  Generate a survey (survey monkey) have to figure out what questions to ask. The data decides the action they take, if they find out myspace is popular they can use that. They can make posters to spread their

Nichole- becoming a responsible citizen.  Blog the Vote- learn about voting and campaigning. Use google motion chart to see the trends of voting to help focus the class on important areas.

Angie- Get it Right! learning the rights you have. Students select a topic pertaining to individual rights, small groups, research their topic and figure out how we got there and pu their results on the class wiki.  Put together a community fair and display there interactive presentations for the public to see.  Gain community support,

Trish- Writing out loud. Set up a pen pal system between America and Japanese students. Expand students horizons.  Talk about what they are being taught conserning WWII. Info about schools the students attend and what they are learning, make a wiki about any stereotypes or bias discovered.  Practice language skills for at risk students.
 


Alli- "We're all Americans" researching newspaper articles about Muslim racism. Use tradebooks. Exposing students to the Patriot Act. Interview people from the neighborhood and ask what they know about the Patriot Act. The students will expand their knowledge about the Patriot Act. Go over recent immigration laws. Create wikis using their interviews.

Carrie- Oral history, Cold War, interview a person, family member, about the cold war, or they will research/do a mural. Record the interview and post it on a wiki. Working with the local newspaper and maybe get some articles posted in the newspaper. Brings out the community's background.

GiGi- study of Haiti and the issues that surround the education system of Haiti. Contact Haitian students eventually make a school presentation about what they learned about the Haitian education system. Collect funds to help the students that the class was involved with during the research aspect of the project.