Service Project Planning Guide
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Service Project Planning Guide TING 10 YE RA A B R E S L O E N C TM & © 2013 Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Norman Bridwell. All rights reserved. Brought to you by The Book Farm, Inc. Courtesy of Scholastic For Ordering or More Information: 866-744-8093. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. TM & © 2013 Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Norman Bridwell. All rights reserved. Brought to you by The Book Farm, Inc. Courtesy of Scholastic For Ordering or More Information: 866-744-8093. Welcome Educators! Youth HandsOn and Scholastic have come together with Welcome everyone’s favorite Big Red Dog, Clifford, to help children participate in service learning in a way that underscores the development of individual and community character and helps everyone have fun as a part of Be Big! Be Big! is a national campaign that invites everyone— big and small—to use Clifford’s Big Ideas to help make the world a better place. Clifford’s Big Ideas are: Share ● Help Others ● Be Kind ● Be Responsible Play Fair ● Be a Good Friend ● Believe in Yourself Have Respect ● Work Together ● Be Truthful The following pages contain ideas for ways that you and your students can become involved in your community in a meaningful and rewarding way. We hope that this is just the beginning of your journey with your students to Be Big! together, as individuals and in the community for all to see! TM & © 2013 Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Norman Bridwell. All rights reserved. 1 BE BIG! Service Planning Guide Brought to you by The Book Farm, Inc. Courtesy of Scholastic For Ordering or More Information: 866-744-8093. What is Be Big? Be Big! is a national campaign that Welcome invites everyone—big and small— to take action and raise awareness for how Clifford’s Big Ideas can make the world a better place. The mission of Be Big is to recognize and reward others for their Be Big actions, to catalyze change in local communities and to provide resources for everyone to share Big Ideas! Being Big is about being Big-Hearted. KIDS in 2010. The goal of the Big Ideas It’s about having a Big Spirit. Being is to support children’s growing under- Big is something we should all do standing that the actions they choose more often. make a difference to themselves and others. The Big Ideas present value- based content that engage children in important life lessons. You can find out more about Be Big at www.scholastic.com/cliffordbebig Clifford’s Big Ideas (Share, Help Others, including curriculum ideas that will Be Kind, Be Responsible, Play Fair, help you integrate Be Big! into your Be a Good Friend, Believe in Yourself, curriculum. Have Respect, Work Together and Be Truthful) were borne out of the Also, the 2nd annual Be Big In Your curriculum developed for the award- Community Contest starts February 1st. TING 10 YE winning animated You and your students can enter your RA A B R E S L O television series—which service project in the contest for a chance E N C celebrates its 10th to see your Big Idea win a $25,000 anniversary on PBS community grant and come to life! TM & © 2013 Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Norman Bridwell. All rights reserved. 2 BE BIG! Service Planning Guide Brought to you by The Book Farm, Inc. Courtesy of Scholastic For Ordering or More Information: 866-744-8093. What is Service Learning? Service-learning is not just volunteering or participating in Welcome community service. As defined by the National Commission on Service-Learning, service-learning is “a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.” It gives meaning and real life application to the subjects taught in the classroom, helping to answer the perpetual question, “Why do I need to learn this?” Service-learning also includes an Thank you again for your commitment emphasis on reflection to help students to young people and service! The understand the importance of their service-learning plans in this guide are actions. Service-learning can be designed to help teachers, youth group implemented at all grade levels and leaders and other community leaders can be rewarding and fun. to incorporate youth service into their communities and schools. Service-learning offers powerful lifelong benefits. Participants learn responsibility, leadership, critical A young volunteer strings thinking and problem-solving skills. beads on a bracelet to share They experience greater self-respect, her message of peace. character development and self- discipline, increased motivation and engagement in studies, more tolerance, a broader perspective and improved academic performance. Now, as a part of Be Big!, Youth HandsOn and Scholastic want to help you build service learning into your community. Your service project can be as large as you dream. This guide contains the tools and resources to help you plan an engaging service project with your students. TM & © 2013 Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Norman Bridwell. All rights reserved. 3 BE BIG! Service Planning Guide Brought to you by The Book Farm, Inc. Courtesy of Scholastic For Ordering or More Information: 866-744-8093. How To Use This Guide This guide will lead you through how to plan and manage Welcome a service learning project with your students. Service The service projects suggested in the Project this guide are child friendly and ready Planning for you to introduce to your students. Guide G 10 YEA IN RS AT O R N B E L E As you work with this guide, you C will note that we have been attentive to addressing the unique challenges of Service Project for Pre-Kindergarten engaging children and youth through Spreading Cheer Cards Project Ideas volunteering. 1 Prepare. Discuss Be Big with your 2 Act. Distribute one The projects in this students. Ask them to join you in piece of construction paper to each thinking about SHARE, one of student. Ask them to fold the card in guide were developed Clifford’s Bid Ideas. Explain the half evenly. Next, allow students to concepts of giving and sharing and ask use cut out pictures, crayons or studentsTM & © 2013 toScholastic brainstorm Inc. SCHOLASTIC people and associated that logos are trademarks of Scholasticcolored Inc. pencils to decorate their CLIFFORD, EMILY ELIZABETH, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD’S PUPPY DAYS, BE BIG!, and logos are trademarks by Youth HandsOn theyand haveor registered shared trademarks with of Norman before. Bridwell. AllExplain rights reserved. cards. On the front of the card, to students that they will now practice students should write a happy and have giving and sharing again by making message that lets the person know Network Spreading Cheer Cards and giving that they hope the card makes them them to someone special. happy or that they appreciate them been tested by (for example: Bringing Sunshine Youth Voice: Allowing students Your Way! or I Appreciate You! or to offer their opinions and suggestions You Make Me Smile!) You may want children and to the service project is called to use stencils to help students youth voice and is instrumental in write their phrases, or have them conducting youth service. Brainstorm prewritten for students to color in. classrooms in local with students about individuals that they can give their cards to, helping 3 Donate. After your students have communities. They students to choose people that might completed their cards, donate them often be overlooked (for example: to your chosen recipients. students may wish to give their cards are a lot of fun and to a family member, but it may be 4 Refl ect. Refl ection is a key better to give their cards to people component of service-learning that like the school’s cafeteria workers, adds meaning to the experience. police offi cers, senior citizens, or sick Ask students how they felt about children in hospitals as they may not donating their cards and how they typically receive such kind gifts). Talk think people felt receiving them. provide ample opportunities for service to students about why various groups Discuss with students why doing this of people would make good choices for project was important. Talk about Spreading Cheer Cards. which of Clifford’s Big Ideas were learning and for practicing what it means included in the project (for example, the focus was on SHARE but were to Be Big! other Big Ideas addressed? TM and ©2009 Scholastic In. SCHOLASTIC and associated logo is a trademark of Scholastic Inc. CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, CLIFFORD, BE BIG and associated logos are TM Norman Bridwell. All Rights Reserved. The guide includes suggested service © Copyright 2010.