K-5: Community Involvement

School-based activities that encourage responsibility to and citizenship within the community

Learner Goal 1

Gain awareness of the importance of involvement in the community.

Indicators

• Describe the personal benefits of community service.
• Describe how the community benefits from volunteers.
• Identify a specific community need and ways that volunteers can meet that need.
• Describe how skills developed by volunteering relate to paid work skills.

Learner Goal 2

Gain awareness of the range of opportunities available for community service.

Indicators

• Identify specific community volunteers.
• Identify student volunteer activities.

Suggested Activities

• Role models visiting classrooms
• Classrooms visiting agencies and other community services
• Student-initiated service projects
• Teacher-initiated service projects
• Partnerships