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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
(Please contact us for any of the following articles or access to our Google Drive).
- "Intro to Service Learning Pedagogy" - Rice
- "What are Service Learning and Civic Engagement" - Cress
- "Traditional Vs. Critical Service Learning" - Mitchell
- "Service Learning - Dismantling a Pedagogy for Whiteness" - Mitchell
- "How Service Learning Enacts Social Justice Sensemaking" - Mitchell
- "Preparing Students for Effective Service Learning" - Rice
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