New Learn and Serve America Grantee Produced Materials - January 6, 2009

K-12

Service-Learning Training and Curriculum Guide
Michigan Community Service Commission
Abstract: The purpose of this booklet is to help the busy practitioner by providing ideas and resources for reflection. In this booklet, readers will find: ideas to use for a variety of reflection activities; templates to copy for use in a service-learning project; a brief summary of research and theory about reflection; and resources for more ideas. Other sections of the guide provide a summary of the theories in the educational research literature about reflection. This summary may help readers to create additional activities. There is also a resource section to give readers more places to look for ideas.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=8284

Wild, Wonderful, Wonders of the Watersheds in Monroe County, West Virginia
West Virginia Department of Education
Abstract: The objective of this FLOW Project is to bring awareness of life within a watershed to boys and girls. Students will learn to identify life within the watershed through this book of discovery. The project is designed to expand learnings in each unit or area of study. This information is to be presented to students in a 2" loose leaf notebook, in order that each participant can continue to add information. Students are learning skills in collecting materials, organizing thoughts, and processing information within many areas of academic study.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=8321

Let's Get Wet: Learning About our Streams and the Source of the Water we Drink
West Virginia Department of Education
Abstract: The objective of this FLOW Project is to bring awareness of life within a watershed to students. Students will learn to identify life within the watershed through this book of discovery. The project is designed to cultivate students' learning skills in collecting materials, organizing thoughts, and processing information within many areas of academic study.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=8323