This project will be evaluated by the enthusiasm and response of my students, by their reflection responses to the packets we send to the hospital, and by the response from the patients and their families. This project is new and different because it is not just another service project. It is curriculum driven and not only assists students in acquisition of knowledge but also in how to serve in the domains of democratic citizenship, natural and social sciences, mathematics, technology, arts, craftsmanship, introspection, and empathy. Jr. The booklet page each student completed served as an assessment of their knowledge of the concept of multiplication and also as a page in a booklet sent to the hospital. I am currently seeking experts who are willing to share their expertise on book making, video taping, and craftsmanship with my students.
Some projects involve making educational books for out-patient waiting rooms.
Our goal is not only to send these booklets and craft items, but also to make a connection through technology. Currently we are taping stories we have read on cassette to send and we plan to send videotaped productions and messages. Our next project involves an Embroidery Guild demonstrating how to cross stitch as we work on samplers such as colonial children might have made. A need in education today is to involve young people in real service experiences to teach them the bonds of social life and connect them constructively to their future education and employment. This project gives my students the opportunity to learn how to become active, productive community leaders, prepared to meet the authentic challenges and problems in their future.