Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Service Learning Project
Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rainwater Harvesting Service Learning Project
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.
Other
Points of Light Institute: Generation On
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Service Pioneers [Pdf]
In this lesson, students learn how civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges and Congressman John Lewis helped to improve their communities.
Other
Donors Choose: Teachers Ask, You Choose, Students Learn
At the not-for-profit DonorsChoose website, teachers submit project proposals for materials and services that their students need and concerned individuals step forward to fund them in whole or in part. Funded projects illustrate the...
Other
Columbus: Empty Bowls
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activities: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
A project for students to research an ecosystem. During their research, students will learn about the services that the ecosystems provides humans. In the second part of the project, students will argue whether a wetland should be...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Watch Out for the Blind Spots
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tippy Tap Plus Piping
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineers Love Pizza, Too!
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Student Reporting Labs Collection
Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Helping Kids Help the Environment
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...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: City Youth Unit: Crime Prevention [Pdf]
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Urban Farming, Soil Science and Me
This lesson should be used within a service learning project to bridge three fundamental categories: community service, personal growth and course content.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Hompage
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Thinking Green!
Students show their creativity and think like engineers as they design products or services that can be used to improve environmental problems in the community. While being aware of the steps of the engineering design process, students...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Grading Congestion
Students construct a model roadway with congestion and apply their knowledge of level of service (LOS) to assign a grade to the road conditions. The roadway is simply a track outlined with cones or ropes with a few students walking...
Peace Corps
Peace Corps: Where Life Is Too Short
This lesson enhances students' understanding of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and the rest of the world.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Personal and Professional Growth
Students will work together to improve their community while learning valuable life and employability skills. They will design and execute their own community service project. When the project is over, students will conduct a meeting and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Fccla the Community Connection"
This is a project-based instructional activity designed to guide young scholars through the steps of planning a student organization community service project. The instructional activity focuses on the students' ability to apply...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Marketing Your Business
Marketing is the activities of a company associated with buying and selling a product or service. It includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to people. In order to successfully market and sell your products and /or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Party Time
The purpose of this lesson plan is to demonstrate culinary arts through the planning of a theme party. This project would be the culmination of a semester of work in food preparation.
Other
Center for Ecoliteracy
Learn of an organization that is providing support to educators to teach ecologically sustainable skills to children. Includes details on grants, resources, and projects.