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Curriculum and Activities
Service Learning Activities & Articles
The following lists provide ideas for service learning class assignments and activities.
Orientation
- Intro to Service Learning reading
- What is service?
- Serving in Humboldt County
- 8 Essential Elements activity
- Writing your position description
Culminating Activities
- Academic posters (IdeaFest)
- Digital storytelling
- Publishing
- Reflection essays
- Presentations
Reflections
- Reflection prompt: "What, So What, Now What?"
- Impact mapping
- Tie in with student learning outcomes
- Letter to self
The Critical Lens
- Deconstructing Service Learning
- Positionality reflection
- Spectrum of service (from low to high engagement and impact)
- Justice, equity, diversity, and inequality
Articles and Research
- "Intro to Service Learning Pedagogy" - Rice
- "What are Service Learning and Civic Engagement?" - Cress
- Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning: Engaging the Literature to Differentiate Two Models. Tania D. Mitchell
- Service Learning as a Pedagogy of Whiteness. Tania D. Mitchell, David M. Donahue & Courtney Young-Law
- How Service-Learning Enacts Social Justice Sensemaking. Tania D. Mitchell
- Preparing Students for Effective Service Learning. K. Rice