EDU 514:
Community Service Learning Project
Project Description: You are to create, participate and reflect on a Community Service Learning Project for this course. Your community service project should improve the quality of life for someone or a group of residents in a community. This project offers you with a way to "give back" to your community and to demonstrate your commitment to improving society in some way.
Your community service learning project must be connected to a social studies topic of your choice. Throughout the semester, you are to actively participate for a minimum of three visits to your chosen site. You are to attend the site for a minimum of two hours for each visit. This will help you to begin to establish yourself in the community, establish relationships with those you are serving and to foster civic responsibility.
During each service session, you are to document that you have participated in service work by collecting artifacts representing your contributions to the community. Please be sure to save, sort and date all artifacts.
At the end of the semester, you will compile your community service artifacts and make connections to the content from our course, blending your academic growth and community service work.
To demonstrate your community service and learning, you will create a freestanding poster that depicts the following:
(1) Your goal(s) of your community service project
(1) A detailed description of the community that you served
(1) A summary of what you did and learned each time you visited the site (journal entries)
(1) What you learned about yourself and community service through this project (reflection)
(1) Your future plans to continue community service work
For some ideas on community service learning projects, you can review the following web sites:
http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov
http://www.makeadifference.com
** Dates to know:
· National Make a Difference Day - October 23, 2004
- Always 4th Saturday in October
· World Kindness Day - November 13, 2004
EDU 514:
Community Service Learning Project
Grading
Rubric
Your Community Service Learning Project will be graded using the following rubric:
Your freestanding poster depicts the following:
Content
of poster included:
Ø An interesting title for your community service project (1 point) _____
Ø A goal(s) of your community service project (1 point) _____
Ø A detailed description of the community that you served (1 point) _____
Ø A summary of what you did and learned each time you actively participated at the site (3 points - one for each date) _____
Ø A compilation of artifacts from the site and people you
Served (1 point) _____
Ø What you learned about yourself and community service through
this project (1 point) _____
Ø Ways that others can volunteer at the site and for the people you
served (1 point) _____
Ø Your future plans for future community service work (1 point) _____
Visual Display of Poster Content:
Ø Your poster was organized well:
Ø All of the above contents were categorized and
sorted with headings and captions (4 points) _____
Ø Your poster used font that was visually
appealing AND readable (2 points) _____
Ø Your poster included artifacts that were easy to
see and understand (2 points) _____
Ø Your poster told your story without your verbal
support (2 points) _____
Total points (20 possible) _____
Comments: