service learning

Title of Project: Ronald Mcdonald 10’s

                 

Grade Level:  K

Number of Students Participating: 20

Contributed by: Melissa Tveten

            Teacher: Melissa Tveten 

            School:  North Pointe Elementary                    

            District or County: Boone

Overview/Description of Project: The kindergarteners at North Pointe Elementary will collect pop tabs to contribute to the Ronald Mcdonald House charity. The students will learn group the pop tabs by 10’s to aid in learning to skip count. 

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Goals: By the end of the project students will 

• Be able to count by 10’s
• Understand the importance of recycling
• See the difference they can make in the lives of others

Core Content Areas:

CC.K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens

CC.K.CC.4  Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality

SS-EP-1.3.2

Students will identify and give examples of good citizenship at home, at school and in the community (e.g., helping with chores, obeying rules, participating in community service projects such as recycling, conserving natural resources, donating food/supplies) and explain why civic engagement in the community is important.

STEP 1: PREPARATION

1.  Students will participate in a unit on skip counting by 10’s.
2. Students will participate in a social studies unit on recycling.

STEP 2: ACTION

1.     Students will be given a letter to take home asking families to save pop tabs to contribute to the Ronald Mcdonald House Charity. The students will learn about the Ronald Mcdonald House and its mission.  They will understand that they collect pop tabs to raise money to allow services for children in need.

2.     A  letter will be placed in the school newsletter so that other grade levels can contribute and it will appear on the school morning news.

3.    As students collect pop tabs we will group them into tens in order to count them easier. 

4.    The tabs will be placed in the math center and students can group them during center time.

5.    As part of our calendar math time we will keep a running total of pop tabs in our classroom.

STEP 3: REFLECTION  ( Reflection is not sequential; rather it is encouraged throughout the lesson)

Throughout the lesson students will be able to reflect on how they are impacting lives by recycling.  What would be the difference if everyone we know recycled pop tabs?  What are other things we could recycle?

STEP 4:  CELEBRATION/DEMONSTRATION

 As a closing celebration a representative from the local Ronald McDonald house will come and give  a presentation to the students.  The students will present the representative with the collected pop tabs.