Service Learning
The Five Stages of Service-Learning Stage 1: Find Out —> Investigate: Begin the service-learning process by asking, “What resources do we have in our group? What are our skills and talents?” Then do some investigating about your community needs to find out a local problem that you can help solve, and in this case, to clean up. Stage 2: Dive In —> Prepare: What do you need to know to be well informed about the topic? Finding out can involve other people and organizations, reading newspapers or watching a video, and brainstorming ideas. Get yourself into “action teams” that set the ideas into motion. All this planning leads to . . . Stage 3: Get Going —> Act: Set your plan in motion! Remember that action is the total of many small parts of a well-designed plan. The action can be direct (picking up trash at the beach), indirect (setting up trash containers so others will dispose of their trash properly), advocacy (making radio adds to promote recycl...
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