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5.2 - Browse Resources

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Objective

The learner will demonstrate the ability to adopt or adapt given resources for use in his or her own project.

Activity

Directions

Browse through the resources listed below. Use the evaluation criteria you learned in the previous lesson to identify which of the resources you can adapt or adopt in order to use them within your own classroom to support one or more of the steps in your own project.


If you like a resource, save it to your computer or flash drive. Then, either copy the URL link or write the File name in the Resources column of the Implementation Plan worksheet in the row for the appropriate step. This will allow you to easily find the resource again when you are ready to implement your project.

Resources

Introduction

  • Earth Force Introduction Video - This video highlights the key steps of a student driven community service project and shows examples that might spark student ideas.


Gathering Information

  • Community Contact Information - This worksheet allows students to record and organize the key information agencies that they have been working with for their project.
  • Community Response Form - This worksheet can be given to collaborating organizations to provide feedback to the students on the success of a visit.
  • Establishing a Baseline - This worksheet allows students to make claims about the current situation in their community and list the evidence that helped them make that claim.
  • Gathering Information About a Community Need - This worksheet allows students to create a research plan. They identify media, interviews, surveys, or observations that might help them as they conduct background research for a project.


Goals and Standards

  • Project Overview - This worksheet allows the students to fill out the purpose of the project as well as the academic, civic, and other related goals as well as the standards related to them.
  • Setting the Context - This worksheet allows students or teachers to identify standards and content connections for a project.


Action Planning

  • Action Plan Flowchart - This worksheet allows students to visually map out the steps involved in a project.
  • Evaluating Options - This worksheet allows students to compare ideas for projects based on identified criteria.
  • Planning for Challenges - This worksheet helps students identify possible challenges they might face in their work and determine plans for overcoming each challenge.
  • Student Action Plan - This worksheet allows students to break each step down in to tasks and assign the tasks to specific people. It also provides space to plan for the resources needed for each step.
  • Taking Action in Our Community - This form can help guide students through the process of brainstorming a possible topic based on community needs, find out more about the chosen topic, and, most importantly, generate a plan for who will do what steps by when.
  • Telling the Story - This handout provides ideas of the various ways to raise awareness for your project.
  • Timeline - This worksheet outlines what activities need to be completed, who will complete them, and when they should be completed. Students can use this to assign and commit to specific roles within a larger project.
  • Using Social Media - This handout provides information about how different social media and social networking tools can be utilized at every step in the project process.


Reflection

  • Assessment for Service Learning - This worksheet lists many reflection questions that could be discussed or answered in writing by students or teachers involved in a student driven community service project after it is completed.
  • Connecting Thinking and Action Packet - This packet of information prepared by the RMC Research Corporation contains over 100 useful activities for student reflection before, during, and after student driven community service projects. Use the charts on pages 3-6 of the document to help locate resources for activities that would be most appropriate for your grade level and the focus on your project.
  • Service Learning Rubric - This rubric can be used by teachers or students to reflect on the impact of a project during the project or after it has been completed.


Student Assessment

  • Assessment Plan - This worksheet allows teachers to identify skills students are working on throughout the project and plan for how to assess the growth of these skills.

Move on to 5.3 - The Final Activity

Back to Unit 5: Generating a Plan

References

Earth Force Introduction. (2011, March 10). Retrieved November 4, 2012, from Teacher Tube: http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=224947&title=Earth_Force_Introduction&vpkey=c84cc6d55f

Evaluating Students' Work. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2012, from Ripon College Office of Community Engagement: http://www.ripon.edu/offices_resources/oce/untitled.htm

Evers, Tony. (2010). High Quality Instruction that Transforms: A Guide to Implementing Quality Academic Service-Learning. Retrieved November 14, 2012, from Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: http://sl.dpi.wi.gov/files/sl/pdf/high_quality_learning_web.pdf

RMC Research Corporation. (2003). Connecting Thinking and Action: Ideas for Service-Learning Reflection. Retrieved November 4, 2012, from National Service-Learning Clearinghouse: http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/132/Reflection%20Guide%20Internet1.pdf

Service-Learning Strategies: Idaho's Practical Guide to Service-Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved November 14, 2012, from Idaho State Department of Education: http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/learn_serve/docs/Service-learning%20strategies.pdf

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