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What is and is not age appropriate service for K-5 students?
What is and is not age appropriate service for K-5 students?
Sometimes it is just as important to know what not to do as what to do. Below we have highlighted some projects for comparison.
Is age appropriate...
- Participating in an environmentally conscious project, like a beach clean up.
- Making placemats for a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
- Read-a-thon projects, where students read to younger kids.
- Initiating a litter patrol at school during lunch or recess.
- Collecting used books for a shelter for homeless children.
- Performing plays and skits depicting community problems and their solutions.
- Visiting senior citizens who live in a nearby home.
Is not age appropriate...
- Test water samples from a local lake or river and document the findings for the community.
- Volunteering in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
- Organizing a phonics fair to help improve reading skills.
- Starting a recycling program for the entire school.
- Writing letters to corporations asking for donations for a shelter for homeless children.
- Holding a youth summit to dialogue about problems in the community and possible solutions.
- Collecting and writing a personal or community oral history by interviewing senior citizens.
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What is and is not age appropriate service for K-5 students?
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