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Summary:

"This book, which offers teaching suggestions at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, features a diverse array of service-learning projects. Topics include AIDS awareness, community planning, shelters for the homeless, and marine environmental activism. An informative overview of the history of service-learning is also included, along with an outline of the challenges that the service-learning movement must address to thrive in the new millennium."

Table of Contents:

• Community service-learning in the social studies / Rahima C. Wade
• Service learning projects for elementary social studies. Book drive for Navajo students / Kate Foley
• AIDS awareness / Robyn Parks
• B.I.G.: bridging intergenerational gaps / Helen Bergey
• Marine environmental activism / Gerri Faivre
• Service learning projects for middle schools. Poverty and homelessness: the open shelter project / L. Richard Bradley, Kim Rhodes
• Action, advocacy, and AIDS / Michele Cerino
• The hunger project / Diane Vliem
• Community planning: playground redesign / Deb Bradley
• Service learning projects at the high school level. Public policy for the homeless / Dick Diamond
• Marion community history / Marc Ferguson
• Social advocacy: history, theory, and practice / Barbara L. Wysocki
• Government service-learning / Michaelean Monahan, Kathy Quesenberry Fout
• Service-learning in social studies teacher education / Joan Rose
• Challenges to effective practice / Rahima C. Wade.

Contributors:

Wade, Rahima C.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Bulletin (National Council for the Social Studies); [volume] 97

Subjects:

Service learning — United States

Service learning

United States

General Notes:

Also issued online through the ERIC website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

116 pages ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

LC220.5 .B85 2000

ISBNs:

0879860839
9780879860837

OCLC Numbers:

44938980