Service Learning project
Investigation- students will form groups of 3-4 and pick one of the following topics to research.
Preparation/ Planning
Action
Reflection
Demonstration/ Celebration- weekly
Evaluation- End of unit project
- Percent of people in their city who are living below the poverty line.
- Nutritional importance (how a lack of healthy food effects the body)
- Percentage of students in their district who receive free and reduced lunches. They will also research the qualifications for receiving free and reduced lunches.
- Effects of poor nutrition on academic performance
Preparation/ Planning
- Where/how are they going to get the food to prepare, cooking utensils
- Calculate the cost of the food and materials. As well as how they will obtain the funds for these items.
- Obtain permission from the school to use the kitchen facility
- Decide who are they going to serve and where
- research recipes and their nutritional values
- learn how to measure, modify recipes based on the serving sizes, kitchen safety, food handling processes
Action
- Students will meet once a week in the school kitchen to create a meal to be given to community members in need for the duration of this unit
Reflection
- Students will keep a scientific notebook that they update after each time they work on this project. They will use cornel style notes to reflect on their academic learning for the day as well as the community service aspect of the project.
Demonstration/ Celebration- weekly
- Each week students will create an outline to report what they did that week for their service project and the impact their project is having on their community
- If the outline receives a score of exceeds, student will have the opportunity to be selected to appear on the school news broadcast to share with the campus the impact that they are having on the community.
- Each week 3 students will appear on the school news to share their report
Evaluation- End of unit project
- students can choose to make a movie, PowerPoint, paper, poster, or any other presentation tool of their choice to use to present their work to their families at open house or some other community event.
Rubric for Weekly Report
Rubric for end of unit poject