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Service Project

Lesson 5:

From Unit Using Our Talents for the Common Good

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Academic Standards

Philanthropy Framework

Kindergarten-2nd Grade

Subjects:

Language Arts, Library / Technology and Philanthropy

Key Words/Concepts click to view

ELA:	Poetry; Reflection
PHIL:	Need; Service Project
SOC:	Civic Responsibility/Virtue

Purpose:

Students will complete the service project, evaluate it and share the information about their project with others.

Duration:

Depending on the Project, at Least One Forty-Five Minute Class Period for Reflection

Objectives:

The learner will:

complete a service project that benefits the common good.
evaluate the project.

Service Experience:

Although this lesson contains a service project example, decisions about service plans and implementation should be made by students, as age appropriate.

Students will create a class book about the project to be shared with another class.

Materials:

Drawing and writing paper
Marker, crayons

Instructional Procedure(s):

Anticipatory Set:

Reread the poem from Lesson Four chorally, using students' names. (Each student should say his or her own name as it appears in the poem.)

Write the service project on the chalkboard. Ask students what they need to know or prepare before they begin the project. Put the list they generate on the board. One by one, go over the items and prepare students for the project.
Once everyone is clear on the task involved, complete the service project. As students are completing the project take notice that everyone is clear on their task and are actively involved.
Once students have completed their tasks, ask each student to draw and/or write about their contribution to the service project. Remind them to note what talent they used and how they felt about being part of the project. Discuss the value of what they did as a group and how it surpassed what one person could do alone.
Bind the pages into a book. Prepare a presentation for another class in the school, the principal, or parents. All students should have a part in reading their sentences or explaining a picture. The entire class can recite the poem. Some students can define "philanthropy."
Present the project.

Assessment:

Teacher observation of student behavior and participation during the service project.
A completed drawing or sentences for the class book demonstrating what was done and how the student felt.