What is Service Learning?
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.
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
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!
.
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 natural
resources and energy!
PRR Students Investigated
• They read books.
• They watched videos to
learn about the
3Rs: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle!
PRR Went on a Field Trip
• PRR visited Recycle City to learn where our
recycling goes and how these materials get
used again!!
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!!
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!
• When people help the
earth’s environment,
this is called
“Going Green!”
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 schoolwide recycling program .
• Lincoln School became the first school in
St. Charles to recycle everything
single stream!!
PRR Goes Green and takes action!
• PRR made
“Did You Know?”
presentations in
morning assembly
about the 3 R’s:
Reduce-ReuseRecycle.
• They worked as a
team to make their
“Go Green
Recycling” video to
show others.
Click here to see our video!
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!
Taking Action!
• Students even made art
works out of recyclable
materials to keep trash
out of the landfill!
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!
CELEBRATION!!!
In the end, the PRR Kids celebrated
keeping 1,458 pounds of
recyclable materials out of the
landfill!!
Great Job!!
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 – Recycle
For the 2013-14 school year!!
Project Read and Reach Kids were a big part of
making this big idea happen!!
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?
PRR will be looking for new
service learning projects for 2013
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
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.
Our first Service Learning Project…
Emergency
Preparedness!!