Essential Standards Related to

Service LearningKelsey Brown

Kindergarten• K.E.1.2 Explain how jobs help people meet their needs and

wants.• K.E.1.1 Explain how families have needs and wants. • K.G.2.2 Explain ways people use environmental resources to

meet basic needs and wants (shelter, food, clothing, etc.). • For K-2 we talk about the differences between wants and needs,

what about those that cannot acquire the things that they need, shouldn’t we help them? After the students understand the differences and significance of the two, lead into helping those that are less fortunate.• Segway into service project-since it’s Kindergarten, one within the

school. They start out thinking about self, broaden that concept early. Get them to think about others that are like them within their school.

1st • 1.G.2.1 Explain ways people change

the environment (planting trees, recycling, cutting down trees, building homes, building streets, etc.).

• 1.E.1.3 Explain how supply and demand affects the choices families and communities make.

2nd • 2.G.2.1

• Give examples of ways in which people depend on the physical environment and natural resources to meet basic needs.

• 2.G.2.2 • Explain how people positively and negatively affect the

environment.

• 2.C&G.2.1 • Exemplify characteristics of good citizenship through historical

figures and everyday citizens.

• 2.C&G.2.2 • Explain why it is important for citizens to participate in their

community.

2nd Grade Itty Bitty City Service Project

• Pick a good to sell and a service to provide

• Create and Include: list of store ideas, schedules, money/checks, generic parent letter for volunteers, generic donations letter

• Assessments to use:• pictures of businesses for students to list goods and services that may be provided• "monsters at work" thinking posters. Students are given just the little monster working.

They must design the workplace around him.• magazine craft for students to create their own store and add goods they would sell to

the storefront • reflection booklet for students to fill out after the project. Includes "know your role"

form on their job role, "goods vs services" what each classroom's goods and services were {if done as a grade level}, "at your service" rating sheet

3rd • 3.G.1.3

• Exemplify how people adapt to, change and protect the environment to meet their needs.

• 3.C&G.2.1 • Exemplify how citizens contribute politically,

socially and economically to their community.

• 3.C&G.2.2 • Exemplify how citizens contribute to the well-

being of the community’s natural environment.

4th • 4.E.2.2

• Explain how scarcity of personal financial resources affects the choices people make based on their wants and needs.

5th • 5.G.1.2

• Explain the positive and negative effects of human activity on the physical environment of the United States, past and present.

Empowerment Fair• Set up like a science fair• Economic Aspects

• Earn• Save• Budget

• To use it to help others

• Students research• Causes• Foundations• Charities• Philanthropists

6th • 6.E.1.2

• Explain how quality of life is impacted by economic choices of civilizations, societies and regions.

7th • 7.H.2.4

• Analyze the economic, political, and social impacts of disease (e.g. smallpox, malaria, bubonic plague, AIDS and avian flu) in modern societies.

• 7.H.1.1 • Construct charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain

particular events or issues over time.

• Can include something for vaccines and awareness in lower socioeconomic areas• Awareness day• Maybe offer free shots and testing

• Research people in the community willing to help• Health Dept etc• Nurses

7th continued• 7.G.1.3

• Explain how natural disasters (e.g. flooding, earthquakes, monsoons and tsunamis), preservation efforts and human modification of the environment (e.g. recycling, planting trees, deforestation, pollution, irrigation systems and climate change) affect modern societies and regions.

• Examples• Earth Day• Adopt a highway

8th • 8.C&G.2.2

• Analyze issues pursued through active citizen campaigns for change (e.g. voting rights and access to education, housing and employment).