Click to order now!Service Learning in the PreK-3 Classroom
A research-based guide for implementing service learning across the preK and early elementary curriculum. Includes theory and practice, with differentiated content-based learning to meet the academic and social needs of young children in meaningful ways. The guide’s numerous sample service learning lesson plans are based on field-tested preK and early elementary classroom projects and correlated to national standards.
Includes:
- Ready-to-use templates for lesson planning, surveying, assessment, evaluation, permissions, and documentation
- Practical project design strategies for readers at all levels of service learning experience—from novice to advanced
- Supporting research
- Content and lessons that reflect:
- National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)
- Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
- Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics, and national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health
- Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework
- Over 20 sample lesson plans that include differentiated instruction options and address these child-friendly themes:
- Letter writing
- Gardening
- Helping people in need
- Saving endangered animals
- A CD-ROM with customizable versions of the book’s forms along with additional sample lesson plans and PowerPoint presentation
224 pages, softcover, 8 For teachers of PreK–grade 3, administrators, and early childhood professionals