User:Sarahtrueblood/Cross-curricular Approach to Action Service Learning


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 * bgcolor="#b4b4b4" style="border: 0px #cccccc solid;" |Subject: English-Language Arts/Humanities/Science/Math
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 * bgcolor="#b4b4b4" style="border: 0px #cccccc solid;" |Sub-Subject: Action Service Learning
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 * bgcolor="#b4b4b4" style="border: 0px #cccccc solid;" |Length/Duration: On-going
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 * bgcolor="#b4b4b4" style="border: 0px #cccccc solid;" |Technologies Used: Wikispaces
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Background
According to Dewey (1902), the modern child has traditionally been taught in ways which each content and concepts are taught separately. When this is the case, there are no personal connections for the child to reference. Learning is seen as separate and scattered. It is this pedagogical model that I seek to reform in this lesson. This cross-curricular approach to learning will integrate literacy, humanities, science, and math will deepen students understanding of local the problem, implement an action, and then produce a public service announcement that calls people to action to support change.

While it is important to have a medium for students to engage in collaboration, the content and message of the collaborative process is equally important. As students begin to collect ideas about the issue they are researching and brainstorming solutions, they will be required to keep track of their thinking on a Wikispace. Students should build on thinking around historical, political, and social implications. In addition, students should explore this problem or issue from multiple points of view.

Finally, the use of on-line collaborative tools, such as Wikispaces allows for multiple collaborators to work in a variety of locations and allow for viewers to peek in on this experience from around the world. On-line tools are a platform for globalized education. Globalized education opportunities are one of the many goals of the The Earth Charter Initiative. The Earth Charter principle 1.3 describes the goal of building a democratic society that is just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful. Through content choices and on-line collaboration, we will be leaders in  the pursuit of these ideas.
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Objective:
This lesson is designed to seamlessly integrate technology and the principles of The Earth Charter. Specifically, this lesson will introduce students to Wikispaces, an interactive, collaborative webpage. Students will collaboratively keep track of their thinking, as well as, keep track of resources used throughout the project. This collaborative mind map will be utilize as a tracking tool for gathering research and evidence. Students will then use this body of evidence to extend their thinking about the issue or problem the are going to design an action service learning project around and eventually create a 3-5 minute video to call people to action to support change about the issue.

Engage:
Share the wikispace page with students that begins by introducing students to the Earth Charter Principles.

Explore:
See Requirements for the Action Service Learning Project.
 * Phase 1
 * Phase 2,and
 * Phase 3.

Explain:
See Requirements for the Public Service Announcement

Elaborate:
See Phase 4.

Evaluate:
Throughout the Phases, the teacher should be checking in with students and monitoring work on the web 2.0 tools (mindmeister, wikispace, etc). The mind map is a collaborative project and should evaluated as such. See the Requirements for the Public Service Announcement for a rubric to evaluate the PSA. See Requirements for the Action Service Learning Project to evaluate the Action Service Learning Project.


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