Student Identified Service-Learning Projects

Student Identified Service-Learning Projects:

Chavez Value Community Need Academic Connection Service Project Ideas Celebrating Degrading Language Arts Develop a poster campaign with positive Community/ Images/Symbols of Women’s Suffrage images/aspects of women. Acceptance of all Women Media/Communications People

Preference to Help Teen Pregnancy Language Arts Create support groups for teens and teen mothers. the Most Needy/ Health and Nutrition Create and disseminate a Teen Pregnancy resource Service to Others Life Skills pamphlet for teens and teen parents listing local resources and organizations available to them.

Preference to Help Teen Pregnancy Language Arts Create informational materials and workshops to the Most Needy/ Health and Nutrition educate teens about safe sex and ways to protect Service to Others Life Skills themselves, including but not limited to abstinence.

Preference to Help Teen Pregnancy Language Arts Create informational materials and workshops to the Most Needy/ Health and Nutrition educate teens about safe sex and ways to protect Service to Others Life Skills themselves, including but not limited to abstinence for Middle School Students.

Preference to Help Teen Pregnancy and Language Arts Organize an educational rally on campus to educate the Most Needy/ Risk Behaviors Health and Nutrition students about alternatives. Invite local organizations Service to Others Life Skills working on these issues to provide speakers and information.

Acceptance of all Racism and World History Create skits to dispel common ethnic, racial, gender People Discrimination Local History etc. stereotypes and biases. Perform the skits at Language Arts lunch on campus. Immigration

Knowledge Overcrowded Schools Local History Circulate petitions to increase school funding. Language Arts Contact local community leaders to put pressure on decision makers to increase school funding. Service to Others Traffic Local History Talk to community leaders about increased funding for Language Arts public transportation. Provide incentives for people who ride the Metro or use other forms of public transportation.

Respect for Life and Open Green Space Local History Work with community leaders and local partners to the Environment Language Arts create more open green space. Research the history Earth Science of the community and combine a historical Environmental Science preservation component.

Service to Others Safety for Students To Local History Talk to community leaders about building sidewalks and From School Language Arts throughout the community where students walk to and from school.

Knowledge Drugs Local History Develop informational materials, workshops, etc. for Language Arts Middle School students about the risk of using drugs. Health and Nutrition e.g. “Live Strong” wrist bands

Non-Violence Violence in Schools Language Arts Develop peer anger management/conflict resolution Health and Nutrition programs on campus to prevent violence. Life Skills