Since middle school, I have been involved in numerous local beach and river cleanup events. In Nature Academy I was able to design my own community service project. During 7th grade, I banded together with a few fellow classmates and we decided to clean up the streets of Felton one staple at a time. The state of the poles there were horrible; covered in the metal pieces from prior flyers posted there. After several weeks and hours, we had defeated the evil staples. In 8th grade, I had done some more community service on a smaller scale. By helping out in the community garden at school, I had helped the crops grow, that were then disbursed to families in need of fresh…
Investigate the two issues you chose in the above question. Use this chart to take notes as you research. Use the library, Internet, family and friends, and trusted community members. Talk to at least three trusted adults about the issues you research. These people may suggest good ideas and websites for information. One example would be your city or county government website. Be sure to note where you find information in your chart.…
For my service learning project I interviewed a lay minister in the Mormon Church. Brett Anderson is a Deacon in…
Jones, D., & Whitaker, T. (2011). Preventing falls in older people: assessment and interventions. Nursing Standard, 25(52), 50-55.…
The first service learning project I completed was in 2006 which was a participation in tutoring a year six student in the Aquinas College junior school. This tutoring was during winter. After the first week I found it difficult to complete three sport trainings a week (1 in Melville), an after school guitar lesson, a hockey game on Friday nights plus the tutoring program, I thought I was going to have to stop the tutoring and complete service learning in a different area. But after the first week of tutoring I found that tutoring became a priority, I felt that Ricardo found the tutoring much help and seemed to benefit from it. I finished the tutoring program without missing one session.…
Coming into the project I was looking forward to interviewing a veteran, at first I really wanted to interview a World War Two veteran. I thought it would be very cool to sit down and hear an untold story of a true American hero that fought in one of the most memorable, and one of my favorite wars. But as I continued to search for a World War Two veteran I couldn’t find one so I joined groups with Tyler, Jose, and Mauricio. They had then told me that we would be interviewing Tyler’s stepdad, who was currently enlisted. Of course my dream of interviewing a word war two veteran was tossed out of the window. Then I had thought about it and to hear the story of a national hero that is serving in the War on Terror currently would be pretty cool. Although I didn’t get my World War Two veteran, I was still pretty stoked about hearing our veteran’s story.…
Describe your understanding of service learning. What is it and why do you think it is included in this course?…
I was granted the opportunity to work with the children and teachers of Coal Pit Learning Center for community engagement week. I worked with the children throughout the week to provide relief to the exhausted teachers and be a person who can look over the children. I was gifted the opportunity to work with a variety of children of ages from 3-5. My first day was tiring, but full of excitement. The children were a mix of shy and excited as we walked into their classroom for the very first time. I thought to myself, as my 3 classmates and I were thrown into the chaos of a group of 3 and 4 year olds, what I should be doing to help. But there was no need for the teachers to explain to us what to do, the children immediately gave us jobs of playing with them or making us watch them race their cars around the room. The week turned out to be a wonderful learning experience for me and the people I worked with.…
Last year I did an underpants drive for the Exodus Foundation in Ashfield. Doing this service learning task connects the students with the broader community and links us with other church agencies and organisations. As a school, it is important to do this and to understand the importance of donating and doing service. It is important to support the homeless and others in need, those who are less fortunate than us. As a school, we come together and make a difference in our wider…
Service learning is a valuable way for students to engage with their communities. When tasked to incorporate a service learning activity into my English class I was faced with a few difficulties. Language Arts standards are very complex and cover many different areas including: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Service learning lends itself readily to the speaking and listening areas, however, I decided that I would attempt to build a unit that enriches student learning in all four domains of the English/Language Arts curricula. The following unit, which I titled the “Changemaker Unit,” is the result of this process.…
My service learning project is working with the Office for Youth and Young Adult Evangelization. The name of the mission trip is given by the Archdiocese Of Seattle which is called One Week. During the summer Junior High school students goes Forks Washington. The Office for Youth and Young Adult Evangelization they help people by responding to the communities need such as helping the poor and the elderly in Western Washington. The theme for the mission trip One week is called to be saints.…
For the service learning project in this class we participated in a health fair serving the underprivileged population. We completed this project with the , who graciously allowed us to participate in one of their weekly food drive events.…
Service Learning Reflection #2 According to my site coordinator, she stated that “The ideal social issue for the community service for my children would be more funding to actually implement a more home like atmosphere. For many of my children, this is their second home.…
her by moving furniture and setting up her appliances. It took almost 7 hours to finish but it was…
A couple of classmates and I had gone to Stanley Holmes Extensions in Atlantic City to help elementary children with homework. Plethora of things had gone well that day. As soon as we had arrived to Stanley Holmes Extensions there was a police officer that had briefly explained what we had to do. Having officer Law explain to us are task was great because we weren't just sitting around when the children had arrived. Helping the children out with homework had also gone well. Most of the children listened when being helped with a problem, and didn't just wonder off or ignore us. Talking to and getting to know the little kids went well. Not one of us had gone up to a child to try to talk to, but instead they came up to us and had asked questions. For example, a boy named Tyreese, he had come up to us and had asked us what are names were, where we were from, what school we were from, and how old we were. Tyresse was the first child I had helped. All I helped him with was some…