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Project Ideas for Service Learning

  • Start an information campaign for a health or prevention topic.
  • Clean up a vacant lot and landscape with native vegetation.
  • Start a letter-writing club to students in other states or countries and share stories with school.
  • Clean up a local stream, park or pond.
  • Establish a club to help an elderly neighbors.
  • Write stories about the history of your town for your newspaper or students in younger grades.
  • Research local service agencies and conduct a fundraiser to highlight and support one.​
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  • Make maps of your town for newcomers and highlight useful community resources.
  • Design and paint a mural for the outside of your school.
  • Survey your school or neighborhood to find out what gifts and talents people have that could advance the school’s mission. Publish the results.
  • Survey your school or neighborhoods to find out what people think are issues that need to be addressed. Publish the results.
  • Start a petition about an issue of concern to students
  • Create a "How to Keep from becoming a Crime Victim" flier
  • Paint over graffiti.
  • Plan a drug-free club for your school
  • Create a public service announcement (PSA).
  • Produce an anti-crime anti-drug, anti-violence play and perform it for others.
  • Create and distribute a list of hotlines or agency links for kids who might need help.
  • Create a hotline, which gives out hotline numbers for kids who need help.
  • Work with your school administration to review and improve the school discipline policy.
  • Research the need to reduce litter inside and outside your school or other public areas and propose solutions
  • Plan a low-maintenance garden on school grounds or other public areas.
  • Test school and community drinking water for lead and inform people of lead issues.
  • Start or encourage a recycling program at your school.
  • Fundraise for money to plant trees or gardens in your community.
  • Create a children's interpretive garden
  • Start an environmental club at your school.
  • Hold a recycling contest.
  • Make posters or collages that promote tolerance and understanding of difference. Post them in your school. Start a club to promote peace and tolerance.
  • Plan and host an Ethnic Awareness week.
  • Find, interview and write histories of diverse people in your community.
  • Volunteer to tutor students who need help with academic work or social skills.
  • Make New Kid Survival Kits for new students to your school.
  • Learn and create a program to teach about good nutrition.
  • Interview seniors and report on – personal histories, community, and stories of character…
  • Teach a class on the importance of getting healthy and staying healthy.
  • Create fliers to distribute to pet owners about the nutritional needs of pets
  • Make gift baskets and deliver to seniors.
  • Help disadvantaged children make gifts to give to other people.
  • Collect shoes, eyeglasses, etc. for children in a third world country
  • Purchase or write a children’s reading book and read to and give away books to children in hospitals.
  • Make "I Care" Kits for the homeless shelters in your area.
  • Hold a clothing drive and deliver items to homeless shelters.
  • Prepare food and serve at a homeless shelter.
  • Create a cookbook and sell and donate receipts to charity.
  • Hold a food, clothing drive and provide to local charity.
  • Hold a used book sale. Donate the money to school library or literacy group.
  • Collect used and new books to give to a hospital, nursing home, shelter, or preschool.
  • Read aloud to a person who is visually impaired.
  • Organize a reading hour for children at your school or library.
  • Make reading or math flashcards for primary students.
  • Set up a buddy system at your school for kids with special needs.
  • Fundraise for Braille books for the visually impaired.
  • Organize a public issues forum for speakers running for local political office.
  • Hold after-school classes to younger latchkey students.
  • Create a play that teaches young children how to stay safe at home while their parents are away.
  • Make a flyer of after-school safety tips for young children
  • Organize a first-aid training session for your school, club, or community
  • Create a video on holiday safety tips.
  • Sing, perform a play, give a magic show, host a dance, or play an instrument for senior citizens.
  • Research your community and write a children's book with a younger student on your community.
  • Write stories and story questions to read to younger children.
  • Hold an "Elderfair" at a local senior center.
  • Become pen pals with residents of a local senior center.
  • Create a time capsule with items from students and senior citizens.
  • Work with senior citizens to create a "then and now" book on themes such as school, childhood games, work, recreation food, music, etc.
  • Create "need to know" packets for students coming into next year's class.
  • Create teaching aids for a nearby day care center.
  • Start a bird sanctuary. Build birdfeeders, plant trees, write journal entries about birds for younger grades.
  • Create a student-run conference on a topic. Have booths, breakout sessions, and speakers.
  • Develop a school creed or service slogan and host school assemblies to promote service work
  • Establish long-term service programs that future classes can continue.
  • Lobby city/state officials to pass laws or ordinances of concern to you.
  • Develop booklets on cultures within your school or community. Give them to the library and the Chamber of Commerce
  • Translate town pamphlets and flyers into other languages to help community members who do not speak English.
  • Organize and host an event to help prepare students making the transition to (middle school, high school, college).
  • Begin a youth-philanthropy board and fundraise to support topics of concern to board.
  • Conduct water sampling of local streams, lakes and ponds and provide results to State Dept of Natural Resources.
  • Study traffic patterns and accident reports for roads around school to evaluate safety issues.
  • Organize and administer a school store to sell school supplies and clothing with school logo/mascot and donate profits to charity.
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  • Home
  • About
    • History
    • Mission
    • Strategy
    • Pathway
    • Leadership
    • Trustees
    • Annual Reports
    • Employment/Volunteer
    • Photo Album
    • Policies
  • Programs
    • Laws of Life Essay Contest
    • Integrity PSA Contest
    • Ethics in Action Award
    • Golden Compass >
      • GC Quotes
    • Integrity Works >
      • About Integrity Works!
      • AwI Seminar
      • Champions of Character
      • AMIS Survey
      • Toolkit
      • Integrity Quotes
    • Reasoning with Ethics >
      • Reasoning Quotes
    • Youth: Ethics in Service >
      • Quotes Encouraging Service
  • Consult
    • Professional Development Workshops
    • Student Programs
    • Comprehensive Approach
    • Implementation Model
  • Donate
  • E-Store
  • Contact