Community and Service Ideas---2011/2012
On-going year long projects for all students, collected by Advisories:
Box Tops and Pull Tabs (Ronald McDonald House)
Inside School Community and Service Sample Activities
Clip and count Box Tops (School earns 10 cents per Box Top, last
year’s proceeds helped pay for WEB Summer program)
Recycling (expand beyond paper to include alum, glass, plastic)
Decorating Hall Bulletin boards and Display cases
Trash clean-up—inside and outside
School beautification—weeding and watering flower beds
Daily Flag raising
Student Open House guides
Academic peer tutoring---help with Homework Help students
Set-up and clean-up for school events (theater/music performances)
Dispute resolution—peer mediation
New Student Buddies---talk with Suzy Lundquist
ESL peer mentors---talk with Mrs. Lundquist or Mrs. Gulyasar
Student committee representatives (Site-based, PTA)
Canned Food drives
Help with Parent Resource Center
Adopt an elementary class
Adopt a nursing home—birthday cards holiday cards, etc.
Cards and letters to service men and women
RRISD Clothes Closet—clothes/sock donations
Spotlight a teacher/student (announcements, congratulatory notes,
etc.)
Linus Project (quilts---7th grade project)
Transition Advice—create power pt, skit, play, illustrated book of
advice for 5th graders from 6th graders
Public Service Announcements about school events/community opport
Service Learning Web-sites: Integration of academics and service projects
Learn and Serve America www.learnandserve.org
KIDS Consortium www.kidsconsortium.org
National Center for Learning and Citizenship www.ecs.org/nclc
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse www.servicelearning.org
Service Learning Texas www.servicelearningtexas.org
What Kids Can Do www.whatkidscando.org
Youth HandsOn Network www.childrenforchildren.org
Youth Service America www.ysa.org
National Service-Learning Partnership www.service-
learningpartnership.org
The Service-Learning Providers’ Network www.slprovidersnetwork.org
www.servicelearningtexas.org --- operates in collaboration with TEA
and is the statewide initiative of Education Service Center Region 14-
--explains "What is Service Learning", "Why do it", and "How Do I do
It". Has a good Teacher Resources list.
www.servicelearning.org/slice --- Data base of service learning
lesson plans and ideas by grade level. There is a specific Middle
School category.
Record of Community Service
Each student will keep a log of community service. These logs
will be kept by the Advisory teacher.
Each student is encouraged to have 30 hours each school year of
community service.
Advisory Responsibility:
Each advisory will chose their own community and service projects.
Community Service logs will be kept in Advisory. Each student is
responsible for recording their own hours.
