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Learning to Give is a service learning project to teach empathy, encourage action, and instill confidence and pride in students, Learning to Give is a student-centered approach of service learning and adds a layer of the learning process that is beneficial for students now and in their future. Service Learning empowers, educates, and equips students to be active, engaged, and caring citizens. The products I have selected are for our Learning to Give activities. These items will help my students generate ideas, plans, and actions to create meaningful projects and gifts not only for our local community, but in communities in greater need. Students will be taught the importance or reusing items to create gifts. Students will collect tin cans, glass containers, donated wood pieces, metal lids to decorate with tissue, washi tape, paint, and other materials. These will turn into planters, candle votives, book ends, natural wood art collage, magnets, and pencil holders. Students will work in small groups to create and gift fairy gardens, terrariums, candy boxes, and mini zen gardens to our local senior center, as well as sow seeds to gift as plants or veggie starters. Students will learn basic sewing skills and create blankets to give to an organization. The fleece material, chalk, and scissors will be used. Most of my incoming students have a background in technology, due to virtual learning for 15 months. I will utilize their level of comfort and knowledge in technology to push them to create digital work such as, flyers, stickers, art photography, printing joke books, printing thank you cards. For students who may need to quarantine at home can maintain these projects.
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