Process
Day One
- Investigate these generationOn fact sheets about community needs.
- Select two areas of need that most interest you and fill out the Areas of Community Need Form.
- Rank your two community needs in order of your first choice and second choice on the index card provided to you by your teacher.
- The teacher will collect the index cards and place students into groups according to the community needs each student is interested in helping.
- Submit the Community Needs Research Form to your teacher for a completion grade.
Days Two and Three
- Our district's Wellness Coordinator, Mrs. Lerch, will be coming in to speak to you about the needs of our community and give some example of service projects.
- Take notes about the organizations she will discuss, how those organizations meet our community's needs, and the some different types of service projects.
- Be prepared to ask questions to gain information you will need to create a service project.
- Below you will find a list of organizations that are helping to meet the needs of our community. Review the organizations' websites to find out what their purpose is, what needs they meet in our community, and how they meet those needs. If you are interested in another organization meeting the needs of our community that is not included in the list below, gain permission from your teacher before reviewing the organization's website.
- From that list of organizations, select three that you are interested in and care about helping. Fill out the Community Service Organization Research sheet. You may fill out a printed copy of this sheet or do it online in Google Classroom.
Day Four
- Sit with your assigned group.
- Share the information you filled out on the Community Service Organization Research sheet with your group.
- As a group, decide which service organization for which your group would like to create a service project.
- Research your organization to determine what they most need or how best to help them.
- Decide what type of service project you will create for your organization by reading the generationOn Take Action: Four Types of Service sheet. Remember that the service project needs to be something that the whole sixth grade can be involved in doing.
Days Five and Six
- Brainstorm ideas and create a doable, meaningful, creative service project to help your organization.
- Use the links found on the resources page to get ideas about possible service projects.
- You can find contact information for local service organizations on the resource page.
- Fill out the Five Steps to a Successful Service Project sheet to help you design your project.
Days Seven, Eight, and Nine
- You will need to persuade the rest of the sixth grade students that your organization is a worthy cause and your community service project is the best one to complete. You can see the peer evaluation rubric in the evaluation page.
- Create a presentation, poster board, skit, tri-fold brochure, etc. Everyone in the group must participate in creating this presentation. A rubric which shows the points you can earn for this presentation can be found on the evaluation page.
- Practice giving your presentation. Everyone in the group must be part of the presentation.
Day 10
- Present your community service project to the class.
- Evaluate each group's presentation.
- Vote on the community service project you think is most doable, meaningful, and involves many students.