About This Daily Classroom Special
Saving the Environment through Service Learning was written
by Robert O. Black, teacher at Harbour City Service Learning Program
and a former Teachers Network web mentor.
Service
Learning Outcomes
Internet Resources/Contacts
Sample Preparation Activities
Checklist to Help Select & Plan
Your Environmental Project
Sample Action Activities
Sample Reflection Activities
Sample Celebration & Reflection
Activities
Sample Lesson:
Trees for Service
How to plant a tree
How to construct a time capsule
Tree pledge
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Sample Action Activities
Direct Service Activities
- Serve as a docent at a park or museum which has an environmental
concern. Or, help a park or museum to set-up an environment
awareness program.
- Do on-site student service activities. i.e. arboretum, wildlife
rehab center, and parks.
- Conduct a community clean up activity.
- Organize a carpool system/network among students.
- Plant marsh grass/ trees/ shrubs.
- Build wildlife refuges, birdhouses,
and or bathouses, etc.
Indirect Service Activities
- Put up bulletin boards or displays about what you've learned
about the environment.
- Sponsor current environmental awareness activities in the
school and in the community.
- Distribute literature about environmental concerns i.e., "Save
Our Streams," etc. Ask gas stations and automotive stores
to make literature available to customers about proper disposal
of oil, antifreeze, etc.
- Create a brochure about recycling opportunities in the community.
- Start a recycling
project.
- Contact the Environmental Defense
Fund for information.
- Help with or initiate community landscaping projects. Contact
Department of Natural Resources for more information.
- Organize a tree planting activity. Contact the Department
of Natural Resources.
- Plant an organic garden - give proceeds to soup kitchen or
sell them and give contributions to a conservation organization.
- Start a neighborhood garden and or compost heap.
- Create a display of artwork created out of "junk."
Advocacy/Civic Service Activities
- Sponsor a Futuristic Week for the school. Invite speakers,
have panel discussions, and view films. Possible topics: Impact
of Future Technology, Quality of Life, Food in the Future, Tomorrow's
Schools.
- Write letters to public officials offering ideas, solutions,
or political pressure to take action on environmental issues.
- Lobby the State and County Council/Commissioners to pass a
bottle bill. Get signatures on a petition.
- Lobby for curbside recycling in your community.
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