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Service-Learning

"Service-learning is education in action.". Service-Learning. Service: - Helping other - Community work Learning: - Acquisition of knowledge and skills from the experiences. What is Service-Learning. How can we apply Service-Learning in Science?.

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Service-Learning

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  1. "Service-learning is education in action." Service-Learning

  2. Service: - Helping other - Community work Learning: - Acquisition of knowledge and skills from the experiences. What is Service-Learning

  3. How can we apply Service-Learning in Science? • -Help in community: - cleaning up trails, campgrounds - assist professionals (ex:veterinarian..) - monitor plant, animal populations • Help with reforestation • Teach in classrooms

  4. In Zoology: • Teach in various schools • Help with after-school programs • Help with bird care at the Ogden Nature Center

  5. Service-Learning in my classes • Only Human Biology and Animal Biology (lower division) • Obligatory • 100 students/class --> can choose where they go

  6. Service-Learning Project • 1- Goals • 2- Location • 3- Project • 4- Report • 5- Assessment

  7. Service-Learning Project • 1- Goals • 2- Location • 3- Project • 4- Report • 5- Assessment

  8. 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)

  9. Service-Learning Project • 1- Goals • 2- Location • 3- Project • 4- Report • 5- Assessment

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

  11. Service-Learning Project • 1- Goals • 2- Location • 3- Project • 4- Report • 5- Assessment

  12. The project • Student’s 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

  13. The most popular project! • Cow eye ball • The brain • The lung

  14. Cow eye ball

  15. The lungs

  16. The brain

  17. Project done in a Boston inner-city school Animal biology

  18. Service-Learning Project • 1- Goals • 2- Location • 3- Project • 4- Report • 5- Assessment

  19. 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.

  20. Assessment • Based on: - student’s notes - student’s report - a phone call to the teacher

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