What is Service-Learning?
Service-learning is not just about "going out and doing good." It involves learning and intellectual skills, performing needed service and producing real results that command respect. Service-learning provides young people with the skills and virtues that enable you to participate fully in society and contribute to the sustainability of our democracy.
In service-learning, you learn and develop through active participation in organized service experiences that:
- Take you out of the classroom to learn and have fun
- Give you the opportunity to use skills and knowledge in real-life situations in your own communities
- Allow you to meet new people
- Answer the perpetual question "Why should I learn this?"
Ways you could do service-learning
- Write in-class journals throughout the service-learning experience with assigned questions or topics.
- Verbally express one thing that you did to improve your community.
- Write a story, speech or poem; draw a picture; or create a play.
- Design a public service announcement about the need for increased volunteerism and community involvement using the service as an example.
- Take photographs and create a collage for the school.
- Role play related situations and develop possible situations.
- Create a school display so others can recognize your work and dedication.
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