Educational Services - Service Learning
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BHUSD Grade 2 Service Learning: Adopt PATH House
Linking Service-Learning Projects to Academic Standards Service-Learning Project: 2nd Grade Math/Social Studies, P.A.T.H. (People Assisting the Homeless) Contacts: P.A.T.H. House 2246 Cotner Avenue West LA, CA 90064 (310) 672-9961 Ourite Kamara (El Rodeo parent) Denise Avchen (El Rodeo parent) Angie Templer (El Rodeo teacher) Service to the Community: Human Needs Theme Students help the homeless by making seasonal donations, decorating healthy Valentine's lunches, collecting used toys and books, etc. Other Resources: Read-aloud books by Eve Bunting: Fly Away Home, Smoky Night, and December. Nonfiction � Call Number 362.5 * Connection to Character Education "The Beverly Hills Way" Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Caring, Citizenship **"Samples of Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Service-Learning Projects" in Curriculum & Assessment Guide Grade Level(s): 2nd Grade Academic Focus: History/Social Science Academic Content Standards:
2.3.2 describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another and try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force
2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others' lives Assessment/Reflections/Celebrations Suggested Assessments:
Students listen to read aloud book that fosters helping others or tells of those who help others i.e. heroes.
Academic Focus: Math Academic Content Standards
Number Sense
1 Students understand the relationship among numbers, quantities and place value in whole numbers up to 1000. Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability 1.0 Students collect numerical data and record, organize, display, and interpret the data on bar graphs and other representations: 1.1 record numerical data in systematic ways, keeping track of what has been counted 1.4 ask and answer simple questions related to data representations 2.1 Recognize, describe, extend patterns and determine a next term in linear patterns Assessment/Reflections/Celebrations Suggested Assessments:
For more suggestions see Performance Based Assessments, Reflections, and Celebrations pages.
Curricular Activity
Students count the number of lunches prepared and the number of items in each bag so they can graph them. (i.e. twenty pieces of fruit, four vegetables) (Extension: relate lunch food items to the Food Guide Pyramid and graph by food groups).
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