Developed with the intention of making the world a better place, Generation On is a global project giving children service learning opportunities. Resources for teachers, children, teens, and parents are included.

Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).

The Grammar and Vocabulary area of the BBC World Service site has a section on common grammar problems and a section on idioms and expressions. There are also links to pages that provide English language learning opportunities that...

Students will gain an understanding of a rainwater harvesting system, learn about rainfall patterns and water use for various purposes, then design and build a rainwater collection system for their school.

In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design a hearing testing device. More specifically, they design a prototype machine that can be used to test the peripheral...

The Tippy Tap hand-washing station is an inexpensive and effective device used extensively in the developing world. One shortcoming of the homemade device is that it must be manually refilled with water and therefore is of limited use in...

In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an assistive eating device for a client. More specifically, they design a prototype device to help a young girl who has a...

The National Environmental Education Foundation is greening the STEM program in an effort to attend to the demands of the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world in the 21st Century. Lessons included in this toolkit...

Resource provide educational student activities, teacher resources, service learning, recreation education, and living with the wildlife.

In this project, participants create ceramic bowls then serve a simple meal of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder that there are always "empty bowls" in the world. In exchange for a meal and...

Delightful and inspirational, this site will encourage any viewer to pitch in to help save the Earth. There are many suggestions for activities, worksheets, music, and video nestled into the Kids for Saving the Earth website.

This unit is focused on helping students understand resources for solving and preventing crime. They compare crime prevention methods of today and in the past, take part in simulation exercises, and participate in a service learning...

In this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service, learn about beaches, spits, and other sandy landforms that characterize some of America's coastal national parks.

In this lesson plan, students learn how civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges and Congressman John Lewis helped to improve their communities.

In this instructional activity, young scholars examine the role of the media in promoting a service project. They will create relevant media materials, implement a service project and then reflect on the results.

This lesson should be used within a service learning project to bridge three fundamental categories: community service, personal growth and course content.

Define and explore the concept of environmental citizenship through a series of literacy-based multimedia, online and hands-on learning experiences. Discover how responsible citizens can help protect their local communities by...

This activity enhances students' understanding of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and the rest of the world.

This article looks at the components of creating a youth/adult partnership and what needs to be in place for a partnership to develop into a sustainable relationship.

Includes information, examples, and activities concerning how the English language has changed over time. Uses excerpts from Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, and other classics to illustrate how the English language has changed over the...