LibGuides: Service-Learning Institute: Key Documents

Handbook

Service-Learning Institute Handbook
Contains activity materials for all sessions as well as resources to use to implement service-learning in your classroom

Complete Guide to Service-Learning

The Complete Guide to Service Learning

The Complete Guide to Service Learning by Cathryn Berger Kaye
ISBN: 1575423456
Publication Date: 2010-03-18

Media Consent and Field Trip Forms

Media Consent Form
DOE Media Consent Form in ten languages: ensure it is on file for your students so we can share out their service-learning successes!

Permission Slips for Field Trips
Access a consent form for day trips. Be sure to check with your administration to see if your school uses another consent form for trips.

Transportation Resources for Schools
Book a bus and review procedures for field trip transportation
Chancellor's Regulations for School Trips
Review the Chancellor's regulations for school trips.

Five Stages of Service-Learning

Five stage cycle of service-learning

Resources for Five Stages

Personal Inventory
A modified personal inventory activity ideal for elementary school students to identify their skills, interests, and talents.
World of Service
Brainstorming activity that is ideal for elementary school students

Youth Service America (YSA) Spark Fire Guide
A guide for student-driven service brainstorming, recommended for elementary/middle school and identifying students' interests
Big List of Class Discussion Strategies
Discussion activities for all grade levels to structure students' research and brainstorming
Roots & Shoots Community Mapping for Young Children
Activity guide for community mapping with young students (suggested for ages 4-6)

Community Mapping with City Planning Data
Guided activity for middle/high school students to explore community assets and needs through city data

Root Causes Tree
Activity that helps students identify underlying causes and entry points for action in their community
10 Steps to Advocacy
Guide (available with free login) for planning advocacy and action

The Art of Asking Questions
Teacher guide and student handouts for asking questions and conducting interviews

Consensus Decision Making
Flowchart and strategies for helping students build consensus while developing plan for action
How to Ask Your Principal for Anything
Make sure you are including your administration in your plans for service with these tips from Scholastic
NYC Open Data
Access local data on issues such as our city's air quality, homeless population, emergency food assistance programs, and much more

Youth Service America Get Ideas
Get ideas for service, join an existing campaign, or post your own project
NYC Service Volunteer Opportunities
Find local volunteer opportunities to enhance or inspire your service action
Service Ideas from 4-H Community Service
Check out the almost 300 ideas for service on pages 11-15 of this guide (Note: Not all of these meet the standards for service-learning that address the root causes of an issue and allow for rigorous learning to occur but they offer a jumping off point for developing meaningful service action)
School Spotlights in SIS Newsletter
Check out how schools across the city have been implementing service-learning in the School Spotlight section of SIS newsletters
Young People Changing the World: Are You Next?
Text set from Newsela (log-in required) on youth activists that can launch discussions of how to take action

Service-Learning Reflection Activities
Menu of different types of reflection activities to support service-learning from generationOn
What are Some Strategies for Reflection Activities?
List and description of variety of reflection activities for service-learning
Service Reflection Toolkit
The "what? so what? now what?" framework for reflection with suggested activities and quotes
Making Reflection Relevant
Chapter from book by Larissa Pahomov that highlights characteristics of meaningful reflection and workarounds for roadblocks
Reflection in Service
Mini-course from Learning to Give with ideas and sample questions for reflection during service units
Debrief Circles
Video and supporting materials (free with login) for using debrief circles as a reflection on learning
Adapting Socratic Seminar: Senior Project Reflection
Video and supporting materials (with free login) for adapting Socratic Seminars into a reflection discussion led by students

How to Prepare Students for Explaining Their Work in Public
Article with advice on how to get students comfortable with and ready to present

Collaborative Conversations Rubric
Rubric with visuals created at P.S. 163 to support young learners in holding productive and respectful conversations

Getting Started Guides

Getting Started: Curriculum-Based Topics
A guide for planning the first one to two weeks of a service-learning unit
Getting Started: Student-Led Projects
A guide for planning the first one to two weeks of student-led projects
Fill-in-the-dates Planning Document
Use these benchmarks and suggested activities to plan your service unit

Topic Resources

Facts About Homelessness
Concise facts with up-to-date charts from Coalition for the Homeless--and while you are on their website, check out their FAQs and Advocacy Library for more resources
Picture Books that Illuminate Hunger, Poverty, and Homelessness
Doing Good Together's recommendations for picture books on homelessness and hunger that can inform and impact students of all ages and reading levels
DHS Stats and Reports
Daily statistics on the homeless population in NYC from the Department of Homeless Services
8 Ways to Help the Homeless in NYC
Article from Curbed with suggestions on how to support local organizations helping our city's homeless population

A Kids' Guide to Hunger and Homelessness
Action research guide by Cathryn Berger Kaye with ready-to-use service-learning materials and resources for investigation

Unsheltered Lives: Teaching about Homelessness in Grades K-12
Interdisciplinary activity guide from Committee on Temporary Shelter in Vermont that has a variety of rich non-fiction and fiction sources on homelessness
The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn't True
TedTalk by Mia Birdsong that tackles the common idea that people in poverty need "fixing" and showcases asset-based thinking

Facts about Childhood Hunger
Introductory facts and video about hunger and food insecurity from No Kid Hungry
Picture Books that Illuminate Hunger, Poverty, and Homelessness
Doing Good Together's recommendations for picture books on homelessness and hunger that can inform and impact students of all ages and reading levels
Hunger Free America 2018 Report on Hunger in NYC
Provides borough by borough and population by population breakdown of hunger rates
Hidden in Plain Sight: Portraits of Hunger in NYC
Slideshow with visuals of food pantries and the many faces of those who use them.
Hunger and Food Security Vocabulary Resource for Educators
How to approach the language surrounding food insecurity. Includes activities such as word searches and crossword puzzles.
Find Food
Food Bank for New York City's searchable map of food pantries, soup kitchens, and other organizations that serve those in need
What Happens When a State Made Food Stamps Harder to Get
Article and photos that highlight the modern challenges that lead to food insecurity

A Kids' Guide to Climate Change and Global Warming
Action research guide by Cathryn Berger Kaye with ready-to-use service-learning materials and resources for investigation! (Note: Some of the links on pg. 42 are no longer active)

Upcycling Guide
Crafts and activities for students to do with used materials.
National Geographic breakdown of plastic pollution
Info-graphics and global comparisons of how much plastic different nations use and waste.
Landfill info-graphic for students
Visual aids to understand how landfills work.

Greta Thunberg at U.N. Climate Summit
Article adapted from the LA Times on Greta Thunberg's speech to the U.N. this September

Plastic Atlas
Guide on all things plastics: from the history of plastic development to how plastics impact gender, industry, the ocean, and more

Service-Learning Institute: Key Documents

Handbook

Complete Guide to Service-Learning

Media Consent and Field Trip Forms

Five Stages of Service-Learning

Resources for Five Stages

Getting Started Guides

Topic Resources

Guiding Students' Research