This resource guide highlights activities you can do with your students to help them enhance their communication and listening skills.
- This Activity Builds Communication Skills. ...
These activities and games educate, equip, and empower students to build community, trust, and open communication in the classroom, as well as in the greater community.
- This Activity Teaches Problem Solving as a Group. ...
Thank you for sharing your time and talent to build literacy in the community. Your time spent reading with a child has many benefits.
- Provides one-on-one support in a caring environment that promotes learning.
- Encourages more
Four Types of Service Action in Response to a Need
After learning about a community need, we explore ways to take action beyond the fundraiser or canned food drive. It is helpful to be aware that service may take four basic forms:
Direct,...
You can build community through classroom meetings. Meetings should last about 10-15 minutes. After greeting each student at the door, invite them to a communal
Duration: One 20-minute lesson, and revisit on each birthday throughout the year.
Objectives:
The learners will...
- create a close-knit community within the classroom.
- experience the importance and ...
Students get outside and play in nature and recognize the beauty of diverse living things in their environment. Their service project is to share nature with someone else in a creative interaction.
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Students use visual literacy skills to talk about an artistic image. They listen respectfully to the different opinions and perspectives of their classmates. The students identify a need at their school and create a simple image that tells others to think differently or take action to improve something at school.
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Students learn about the environmental effect of crayons and their own power to make an impact. Students collect gently used crayons from restaurants and other places in the community. They sort them by color, repackage them for re-use, add a kind note, and donate the new packages where they identify a need. This elementary lesson includes an art lesson with crayons, pictured here. This lesson is enhanced when it involves collaboration between classrooms from elementary to high school.
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The handouts below are evaluations that may be completed by parents and families, community partners, students, and teachers. These evaluations may be used in conjunction with any Learning to Give lesson, toolkit, or resource. The goal is to help you collect information about the...