What is Service Learning?
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What is Service Learning?
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Service
• Service is when you help someone or a cause because you want to!
No one pays you or gives you a prize for helping.
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Service Learning is
• investigating a problem in the community • learning something new to help solve the
problem • taking action working on the problem by using what you learned
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Service Learning at Blackhurst and Lincoln School 2012
• Last year Project Read and Reach students discovered one of the biggest problems in the world is the earth’s environment is in danger!!!
• People waste many things and then throw them away in the trash. There’s too much trash and not enough space to store it all.
• If we are not more careful, we are going to use up all of the Earth’s natural resources like metals,
trees, and oil!
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PRR Investigated this problem!
PRR students wanted to find ways to protect the earth.
• PRR Kids found one way to help is to recycle trash that can be used again. This saves naturalresources and energy!
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PRR Students Investigated• They read books.• They watched videos to
learn about the 3Rs: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle!
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PRR Went on a Field Trip
• PRR visited Recycle City to learn where our recycling goes and how these materials get used again!!
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Guest Speakers PRR invited guest speakers
to talk about how recycling works and can help the environment .
• PRR Kids learned once an object goes to the landfill, it is gone FOREVER!!
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How does Recycling Help?• Over half our trash can be
used again or recycled and made into something new.
• The energy saved in recycling a single aluminum can could power a television
for 3 hours!!
• Recycling paper saves millions of trees from being cut down to make new paper!
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•When people help the earth’s environment, this is called
“Going Green!”
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Students Plan and Prepare
• The Project Read and Reach students decided they wanted to make a difference in our school by teaching everybody ways to
“Go Green” .• They made an action plan to organize a school-wide
recycling program .• Lincoln School became the first school in St. Charles to recycle everything single stream!!
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PRR Goes Green and takes action!• PRR made “Did You Know?”
presentations in morning assembly about the 3 R’s: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle.
• They worked as a team to make their “Go Green Recycling” video to show others.
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PRR Kids had Jobs!!• They asked everyone at
school to help recycle everywhere in the school.
• Each classroom got a blue recycling bin.
• The PRR Kids did recycling bin pickup for the whole school for
18 weeks!
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Taking Action!• Students even made art
works out of recyclable materials to keep trash out of the landfill!
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Reflection
• The boys and girls wrote and drew pictures about their “Go Green” project in their journals.
• The kids talked about how they liked having jobs to do!
• Students tried “Going Green” at home!
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CELEBRATION!!!In the end, the PRR Kids celebrated
keeping 1,458 pounds of recyclable materials out of the
landfill!!Great Job!!
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Go Green News Update!!
• Since Single Stream Recycling was so successful at Lincoln School last year, the entire school district will be Going Green!
• All schools in St. Charles School District will be using single stream recycling to
Reduce – Reuse – RecycleFor the 2013-14 school year!!
Project Read and Reach Kids were a big part of making this big idea happen!!
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When the Go Green service learning project was over….
• How do you think the “Go Green” service learning project changed the PRR student’s lives?
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PRR will be looking for new service learning projects for 2013
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Remember Service Learning is
• investigating a problem in the community• learning something new to help solve the
problem • taking action working on the problem by using what you learned
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Service Learning at Project Read and Reach
• We will begin on our first service learning project in a couple of weeks.
• Big problems usually take time. We will work on our service learning project for many weeks.
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Our first Service Learning Project…Emergency
Preparedness!!