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Service learning : a guide to planning, implementing, and assessing student projects / Sally Berman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berman, Sally.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Service learning--United States.
- Service learning.
- United States.
- Project method in teaching.
- Active learning.
- Multiple intelligences.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 202 pages : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman's second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community.
- This valuable resource explains the benefits of service learning and provides a step-by-step guide for using the instructional model. It features nine service-learning projects that are broken down into basic, intermediate, and advanced levels.
- In this single resource, teachers will find everything they need to successfully implement service learning projects, helping students gain deeper understandings of content while positively impacting their communities.
- Contents:
- The fundamentals of service learning as a curriculum model
- Basic service learning projects
- Clean streets, green streets: a social studies and science service learning project
- The lending locker: a health and physical education service learning project
- The hygiene tree: a consumer education and health service learning project
- Intermediate service learning projects
- Reading pals: a language arts and life skills service learning project
- The soup troop: a health and family education service learning project
- Computer tutors: an instructional technology and language arts service learning project
- Advanced service learning projects
- The voice of the people: a social studies and library technology service learning project
- Community vision: a visual arts and library technology service learning project
- Main street gardens: a science and visual arts service learning project.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1412936721
- 141293673X
- OCLC:
- 62330692
- Publisher Number:
- 9781412936736
- Online:
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