Kids Taking Action
Community Service Learning Projects, K-8
by Pamela RobertsCommunity Service Learning Projects, K-8
Kids Taking Action highlights eighteen exciting CSL projects from diverse K-8 classrooms across the country. Written in a lively, engaging style, these profiles of hands-on, kid-friendly projects offer teachers great ideas to use or adapt with their own students. In addition, Kids Taking Action presents a helpful resource list and practical tips on how to find and implement CSL projects.
"This book will be of value for all teachers and administrators and makes an important contribution to the field of community service learning. It showcases CSL at its best, tracing real teachers at work in real classrooms. And what's more, it's enjoyable to read."
–Sheldon Berman, EdD, Superintendent of Schools, Hudson, Massachusetts
Table of Contents
About Community Service Learning
What is Community Service Learning?
Benefits of Community Service Learning
Types of Community Service Learning Projects
Steps in Doing a Community Service Learning Project
Questions and Concerns
Five Projects In-Depth
The Dog Poop Project
The Bus Bully Project
Wetlands as Classroom and Service Opportunity
Biographies of Nursing Home Residents
Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF
Thirteen Projects At-A-Glance
Quilt Project
Heifer Project
Visits to an Alzheimer's Unit
Vegetable Garden
Water Testing
Coral Transplant Project
Books on Tape
Bias in Literature
Salmon Restoration
Student-Run Business
Multi-Site Community Service Learning
Voter Registration and Awareness Drive
Hunger Awareness
Conclusion
Community Service Learning Resources
Northeast Foundation for Children, 2002, 129 pages, paper
ISBN: 1-892989-07-7
Getting Started Video