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Infusing character education and
service learning into academics in New York State |
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Experts in service learning, character
education, or both, have reviewed all projects! *Click below to view the
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Adopt a Block * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students work in teams with junior high student partners to
plan, clean and maintain a specific area in the community. |
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Adopt-a-Cop program is a year-long program in which a
third-grade classroom forms a relationship with a local police officer to
foster a positive bond.
Students will develop an awareness of the roles and responsibilities of local
police officers, state troopers, sheriff, deputy, NFTA and BMHA authorities. |
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Adopt-a-Hallway
* download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students develop an anti-littering program for their community. |
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Students
will formulate interview questions about being involved in the military and
use these questions to interview veterans at a luncheon honoring local
veterans. A letter-writing activity
will also be initiated involving active duty service personnel, who will be
partnered with a student throughout the course of the year via letters,
pictures, e-mail, etc. (depending upon the school’s available
technology). Students will also
organize, collect, and mail “care packages” to active soldiers
from the entire student body. They will hold fundraisers (ice pop sales) to
buy personal items to send in the packages. |
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Advocating Disability Rights * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students read and discuss works of literature written by and
about people with disabilities. |
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Students
will work with a community kitchen organization after school or on school
breaks to prepare menus, shop for, and prepare meals for homebound AIDS
patients. They will work with
community volunteers in a local “meals-on-wheels” non-profit
program for AIDS patients that enables clients to have a daily nutritious
well-balanced meal. |
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Animal Shelter Outreach * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students supplement the deficits of supplies/materials at a
local animal shelter. |
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Book Buddy Organization * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students, staff and local libraries will collaborate on
providing tape recorded reading of books for the visually impaired/
illiterate. |
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Book Club * download
as a word document * Assessment
* Answer
key |
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Children will work at home on simple tasks to earn money toward
the purchase of books for a local shelter or children's hospital. Children
will regularly log their earnings in a journal. In the spring, children will
use their earned money to buy books at the annual Book Fair. the books will
be turned over to the shelter or hospital representative. [This project has been used
once and revised.] |
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Bridge over troubled waters * download as a word document *Assessment * Answer key |
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Students choose a "buddy" and develop a relationship with
a young person who has a disability and is (or will soon be) in the process
of transitioning from one site (residential setting or school) to another. |
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Bridging the Gap * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Each student will be "paired" up with a local senior
citizen in the community. . |
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Bridging the
Generational Gap: Walking a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes *
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After reading To Kill a Mockingbird, students will work in pairs to
interview and to be interviewed by elders from the community. The goal for each side is to learn as much
about one another as possible so that they can then each write a creative
short story in first perspective from the other’s point of view. All stories will be published in a booklet
to be distributed at the celebration to all who took part in the
project. The purpose of this project
is to encourage young people and elders to gain mutual respect for one
another. Students and elders alike
will realize that they have a lot to offer to one another. |
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Building Character through Cross-Age Literature and Service
Learning * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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During a literature unit including young adult books by Eve
Bunting, high school students are paired with elementary school students and
are broken into three group to address the issues of homelessness, literacy
needs, or gang involvement. |
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High school students raise butterflies at a school-based
hospital site for acutely ill children in K-8 grade. Students will prepare hospitalized
children for the arrival of live butterfly culture. Students and children
alike will design a “releasing ceremony” culminating the end of
the project. |
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CAN: Children Acknowledging Nutrition * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students work with local community organizations and individuals
to research and compile data supporting good nutrition. |
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C.A.R.E.
(Cross Age |
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Students
will develop a book drive for the Christmas Bureau. They will write letters
to solicit book donations from family, community bookstores, and the school
community to help children who might not be receiving holiday gifts. They
will write a short book review for the recipient. In Math, students will
create graphs to show the genres of books and the favorite books received. If possible, the
children will visit the Christmas Bureau to deliver the books or present them
to a representative at a school assembly. [Formerly called Book Club] |
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Collaborative Fairy Tale Writing * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students partner with a younger student at a homeless shelter. |
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Students start, manage, and maintain a vegetable garden to
provide vegetables for local food banks. Using scientific and math skills, students will be responsible for
planning, designing, and constructing the garden, as well as deciding which
veggies to plant where, when, and in which quantities. In addition, they will
use GPS mapping to research plots and the final location of crops in the
garden. |
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Community Weather Network * download as a word document * Assessment * Answer key |
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Students
participate in a semester long community based project tracking local weather
data. |
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