Title of Project: Lions Club/9th District Elementary Recycle for Sight
Grade Level: 2nd
Teachers: Josh Hamilton, Jessica Carrelli, Brittany AllbrightGrade Level: 2nd
School: 9th District Elementary
Overview of Project: The Students will partner with the Lions Club and collect gently used eyeglasses, and sunglasses for underprivileged people in the
People Involved: The Second grade students, staff, and parents of students at 9th District Elementary in
KY Core Content
Students will analyze real-world problems to identify appropriate representations using mathematical operations, and will apply operations to solve real-world problems with the following constraints:
· add and subtract whole numbers with three digits or less;
· multiply whole numbers of 10 or less;
WR-EP-1.1.3
In Transactive Writing,
· Students will communicate a purpose through informing or persuading.
· Students will develop an angle.
· Students will communicate what the reader. should know, do or believe as a result of reading the piece.
· Students will apply characteristics of the selected form (e.g., letter, feature article).
· Students will use a suitable tone.
· Students will allow voice to emerge when appropriate
SS-EP-4.1.2
Students will use geographic tools to identify major landforms (e.g., continents, mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g., oceans, major rivers) and natural resources on Earth’s surface and use relative location
Procedures
1. The Lions club members will come into class to discuss our partnership.
2. Students will make a presentation to the school as a whole about our service learning project.
3. Students will make posters to hang around the school to promote our “Recycle for sight” project.
4. Students will write persuasive letters to persuade others to donate their unused eyeglasses to our cause.
5. Students learn about the cultures and locate the countries where the eyeglass donations will be taking place.
6. Students sort and count and do various other math activities with the eyeglasses. Glasses are organized by students.
7. Students present our eyeglasses collected to the LIONS club and they share what happens to the glasses now via their website.
http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-work/sight-programs/eyeglass-recycling/the-journey-of-a-pair-of-eyeglasses.php
Celebration of our Service Learning Project
The 9th District students will have a cookout with members of the LIONS club upon giving them our donation.
Josh,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great plan! The Lyons Club is a great organization! I'm sure they will be so happy to receive your help! Since the new Common Core Standards are all about using technology to publish writing and ideas, you should think about having the students create a digital story to present their ideas to the school. My students LOVE making digital stories and they are so engaging for everyone.Good luck with your project!
In the book I am reading, 40 Active Learning Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom, I saw a lot of strategies that were included in your service learning plan. The book discusses active learning, which is when the students are active and the students do most of the work. It is fast paced, fun supportive and personally engaging, (pg. 5, Green). Your plan does that by having them be active by making posters, write persuasive letters, having them sort and count them as well as having them share via the website. Good plan!
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