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Academics Enhanced by Culture
A Service-Learning Project Example
School is an introduction to the greater world in so many ways, including how to bridge age and cultural differences. One group of 7th and 8th graders collaborated with 1st graders in an ongoing, multi-faceted project to do just that.
Subjects:
Technology/Industrial Arts,
Foreign/Sign Language,
Social Studies/History,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
Prekindergarten-2,
3-5,
6-8
Types of Project:
Mentoring/Tutoring,
Community Building/Development,
Diversity/Multicultural
State:
Washington
American Dream Quilt
A Service-Learning Project Example
To unite students with diverse learning styles and ethnic backgrounds in a multilevel English course, teachers launched the American Dream Quilt project. Students interviewed family members, composed extensive journals, and assimilated and applied themes from literature to their own family experiences, before creating a quilt representing their heritages and identities.
Subjects:
Social Studies/History,
Language Arts/Communications,
Math,
Music/Arts,
Family/Consumer Ed.
Grades:
9-12
Types of Project:
Public Art,
Community Building/Development,
Diversity/Multicultural
State:
Massachusetts
Beyond Jungle Gyms
A Service-Learning Project Example
Playgrounds are an important part of a school. Where else can students not only blow off steam with healthy exercise but also enjoy some quiet time in the sunshine? So when 6th-grade students realized their playground wasn't meeting all their needs, they improved it.
Subjects:
Technology/Industrial Arts,
Business,
Language Arts/Communications,
Math,
Sciences/Environmental Ed.,
Music/Arts
Grades:
6-8
Types of Project:
Public Art,
Community Building/Development
State:
Michigan
Blankets, Babies, and HIV/AIDS Awareness
A Service-Learning Project Example
After reading an article about babies born with AIDS, students decided to make baby blankets to publicize that AIDS affects everyone, even the youngest of children.
Subjects:
Health/Physical Ed.,
Social Studies/History,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
3-5,
6-8
Types of Project:
Public Art,
Health/Safety,
Community Building/Development
State:
Books for Children
A Service-Learning Project Example
When students in a town with a Central American sister city learned about "Libros para Ninos" (Books for Children), a program providing books for Central American children, they decided to make and donate handcrafted books. The youths studied simple Spanish vocabulary to write the books, and wrote essays about themselves to accompany the donation.
Subjects:
Foreign/Sign Language,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
3-5,
6-8
Types of Project:
Public Art,
Literacy,
Diversity/Multicultural
State:
Minnesota
Changing Attitudes: HIV, AIDS, and Compassion
A Service-Learning Project Example
Acceptance is key in the fight against HIV and AIDS. One class realized this after reading a book about pandemics and society's negative views of the infected. The students worked to counteract harassment within their school.
Subjects:
Health/Physical Ed.,
Social Studies/History,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
6-8,
9-12
Types of Project:
Human Rights,
Public Policy,
Health/Safety,
Music/Art,
Community Building/Development,
Diversity/Multicultural
State:
Minnesota
A Child-Friendly Emergency Room
A Service-Learning Project Example
After the pediatric wing in the local hospital closed, a class of kindergartners made the existing emergency room more child friendly. They changed the appearance of the emergency room to ease the anxieties many of them were experiencing, and wrote a book explaining emergency room procedures to children and their parents.
Subjects:
Health/Physical Ed.,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
Prekindergarten-2,
3-5
Types of Project:
Public Art,
Health/Safety,
Community Building/Development
State:
Massachusetts
Classroom Rain Forest
A Service-Learning Project Example
One 2nd-grade class' celebration of Earth Day became a sustained commitment to caring for a rainforest. While transforming their classroom into a model rain forest, they learned they could help preserve the real rain forest by adopting acres of it.
Subjects:
Social Studies/History,
Language Arts/Communications,
Math,
Sciences/Environmental Ed.,
Music/Arts
Grades:
Prekindergarten-2,
3-5,
6-8,
9-12
Types of Project:
Environmental
State:
Michigan
Comic Books Against HIV/AIDS Prejudice
A Service-Learning Project Example
After discussing the prejudice faced by people with AIDS, students created a comic book character to teach youths about acceptance and respect.
Subjects:
Health/Physical Ed.,
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts
Grades:
3-5,
6-8,
9-12
Types of Project:
Human Rights,
Health/Safety,
Music/Art,
Community Building/Development
State:
Common Interests
A Service-Learning Project Example
Seniors and youths have much to offer each other, but the two groups rarely interact in meaningful ways. The relative lack of inhibition in one class of mild to moderately mentally handicapped students allowed them to connect with seniors in a local nursing home, improving the students' behaviors outside the classroom, and establishing a unique and positive relationship within the community.
Subjects:
Language Arts/Communications,
Music/Arts,
Family/Consumer Ed.
Grades:
Special Education
Types of Project:
Intergenerational,
Community Building/Development
State:
Minnesota
