Service Learning Projects

(I copied from Liz J up to Allison's project)

Chance: Civil participation – movie to serve as a public service announcement over some controversial topic, create wiki and/or petition, contact government official through letter

Zahra: Voting rights – students research minorities and their progression towards voting rights, choose a topic pertaining to this (ie. Key figure in women’s suffrage) and work in small groups to create a online voting rights museum, info should include photos, primary documents, interviews with local people, Skype lessons to younger students

Michael: Oral history – interview people in retirement home, record interviews and create digital storytelling presentation, add sounds and images, upload to youtube

Adam: Voter registration – Students create resources to motivate people to vote or inform on the issues, pre-register voters, inform the school/students on issue, try to get on local news or community event with booths and information

Meg W: Human trafficking – learn about Reconstruction amendments, inform students on current human trafficking, current legislation, use any form of digital media to present research information, overall goal is to do a letter writing campaign to Congress

Jennifer: Military letter writing – Students create wiki for different military personnel, allow military to communicate in return, helps build relationship for those who don’t receive many letters

Josh: Veterans – research war, interview a veteran about war, create podcast, blog about research and experience with Veteran, share with vet, 2 or 3 more blogs, then compile all together

Jeremy: Drug war awareness – media sends mixed messages on drugs, research war on drugs and legislation and incarceration rate, create wiki, write representatives on a topic relevant to them involving the drug war

Megan G: Military contact – support a soldier, work through school and community to get donations to send to military troops, have a specific pen pal with soldiers from the community, write and film video monthly, also send care packages

Elizabeth H: Operation Christmas Child – research a variety of cultures on their ‘holiday’, help the less fortunate, volunteers at centers and interview volunteers, students then blog about research and experiences

Eric: Elderly/psyc – students visit local retirement home, have people complete questionnaire on happiness, teach residents how to use email and instant messaging in order to communicate with family, give them a questionnaire a month later, write paper discussing problems of home and the difference in their data

Mallory: Habitat for Humanity – Pair up with Habitat and determine costs in building homes, research cost effective methods of building, create wiki on information, interview families that have received homes

Louisa: Elderly – Oral history, nursing homes; interview residents about life at that age, create video podcast, compare and contrast worries, experiences, etc with their own, then have a ‘viewing party’

Mark: Active political participation – Choose local, state, or federal government official and create a short bibliographical sketch, try to contact the individual, create a wiki for each individual, interview person in the community, use knowledge gained from step 1 to lobby for the needs they discovered through their interviews, expose students to political progress

Jeff: Environment – students do thorough clean up local park, learn of human impact on environment, learn ways to help keep places clean and lessen human impact, blog each day with pictures, create video on environmental cleanliness

Katy: Civic responsibility – students look how historical events affect people’s lives personally, reflect on one historical event that has occurred during their life, interview residents at a nursing home on an even that occurred during their life, create a video that compares the events and each person’s personal experience

Megan P: Media and voting – research voter trends and elections, visit retirement home, interview residents about past experiences with elections and voting and media, create podcasts, show residents final product, write thank you letter to the residents about the things they’ve learned

Brittany: increasing voter turnout – lecture of voter trends (young people), generate survey with self-created questions, each student sends a certain number of questionnaires out, present data to class and how they reacted to the information, will raise awareness of election issues

Nicole: Voting – students learn about voting and campaigning, during election students create own campaign, use google motion to look at past trends, use wiki blog or podcast to present information and reach a certain demographic

Angie: Individual Rights – analyzing (Declaration of Independence, Supreme Court cases, Bill of Rights, etc.) primary documents and current events, students select a topic pertaining to individual rights, research topic past and present, put info into class wiki, organize a “get it right” fair, during school day and outside for community, students create a presentation

Trisha: Pen pal – at-risk students have pen pals with students in Japan, compare related topics being taught (War war II), contact through letters, emails, video podcasts, create a showcase for the school, also create a wiki for all the content

Allison:

Perceptions of muslim-americans after 9/11

NYtimes- A Day of Terror and other articles

tradebook- ask me no questions- experience of a 14 yr old girl

US Patriot Act

project- create a class questionnaire and interview people in their community- their relationships/perceptions with muslim americans, their knowledge and opinions of the Patriot Act, and reactions to 9/11.

Students create wikis about the Patriot Act incorporating primary resources that are their interviews.

Carrie W:

"Your community through the ages"

unit on the Cold War- students pick someone who lived through this time, or a mural or landmark that was erected during this time and do research on it

They create an article based on the info they gathered

A wiki is created with all of their work.

Invite other classes and community to add to the wiki

Working with local newspaper so that articles can be published to bring awareness to the community.

Griselda:

Students study history/geography of Haiti and network with a school from Haiti

They will discuss issues on tuition, transportation, etc. to diminish stereotypes they may have.

there will be a class website that tells what they have learned

podcast that tells community and school what they have learned.

They will collect funds, etc. to help students in Haiti.