Service-Learning

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Service-Learning

• "Service-learning is education in action."

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What is Service-Learning

• Service
• - Helping other
• - Community work
• Learning
• - Acquisition of knowledge and skills
• from the experiences.

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How can we apply Service-Learning in Science?

• -Help in community
• - cleaning up trails, campgrounds
• - assist professionals (exveterinarian..)
• - monitor plant, animal populations
• Help with reforestation
• Teach in classrooms

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In Zoology

• Teach in various schools
• Help with after-school programs
• Help with bird care at the Ogden Nature
• Center

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Service-Learning in my classes

• Only Human Biology and Animal Biology (lower
  division)
• Obligatory
• 100 students/class --gt can choose where they
• go

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Service-Learning Project

• 1- Goals
• 2- Location
• 3- Project
• 4- Report
• 5- Assessment

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Service-Learning Project

• 1- Goals
• 2- Location
• 3- Project
• 4- Report
• 5- Assessment

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Goals

• For the students
• - Learn a subject in depth
• - Experience in teaching (not as easy as one
  thinks!)
• - Getting a new perspective on life
• - being a role model
• For the Recipients of the Service Learning
  Project
• - a chance for a new perspective on various
  subjects
• - learning from peer
• - having a role model (important for poor inner
  city school students or kids in after-school
  program)

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Service-Learning Project

• 1- Goals
• 2- Location
• 3- Project
• 4- Report
• 5- Assessment

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Locations

• Data base for Service-Learning Opportunities
  Spring 2007.
• My own list
• - mostly Ogden inner-city schools
• - after-school programs (Youth Impact)

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Service-Learning Project

• 1- Goals
• 2- Location
• 3- Project
• 4- Report
• 5- Assessment

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The project

• Students choice
• I provide whatever is needed for the
  presentations (models, transparencies, cow/pig
  organs..)
• Most often, presentations on (Human Biology)
• - the brain, brain injury and safety precautions
  in order to prevent head trauma
• - the lung functions with the effects of smoking
• - muscle functions and exercise
• - cow eye ball dissection

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The most popular project!

• Cow eye ball
• The brain
• The lung

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Cow eye ball
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The lungs
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The brain
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Animal biology

• Project done in a Boston inner-city school

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Service-Learning Project

• 1- Goals
• 2- Location
• 3- Project
• 4- Report
• 5- Assessment

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Report

• Students must bring back
• - the material and notes they used for the
  presentation
• - a note signed by the teacher telling me about
  the presentation
• - some students bring back pictures
• Students must write a one page report about how
  the project went, how it was received by the
  students, and about what they have learned from
  their project.

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Assessment

• Based on
• - students notes
• - students report
• - a phone call to the teacher