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SL/STEM Characteristics

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Written by Administrator Friday, 21 January 2011 22:25

Characteristics of High Quality Service-Learning Projects that Green your School


  • Reduce non-renewable resource consumption
  • Enact KIDS Principles of Service-Learning
  • Includes all aspects of KIDS framework
  • Provide product or service for a real audience
  • Students consider lasting impact
  • Deepens students' understanding of science practice and concepts
  • Data is collected, analyzed, interpreted, shared, etc.
  • Students use data to provide evidence that there is a problem and use data to show impact.
 

About This Work

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Written by Administrator Friday, 21 January 2011 22:24

KIDS Consortium has been awarded a three-year grant from the federal Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), Learn and Serve America Program, for a project that engages four design sites and three expansion sites in work to implement and document high quality service-learning projects in the STEM disciplines.  As a result of this work, we will create a SL/STEM Guide for middle school teachers that integrates the KIDS SL model with national/state STEM standards and research-based instructional strategies.  This guide will be disseminated to state and national audiences.

Key CNCS priorities for this grant include:
  • promoting the use of high-quality service-learning to address STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) objectives in middle schools with high percentages of youth from disadvantaged backgrounds
  • expanding the use of service-learning as a teaching strategy to increase students' motivation to learn, community problem solving skills, and readiness for careers and post-secondary education
  • engaging young people in service-learning  activities that address community needs in order to build healthier communities