Effective Change Lunch Making Program
Project:The goal of this project is to offer a unique service learning opportunity to middle school students during the school day. This project will provide students with first hand experience in volunteering, creating sack lunches for those in need of food in the community. Through this experience students will become effective change agents in their communities...
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Partnerships:
The Sunnyside Environmental School is a community of students, educators, parents, neighbors, and alumni, working together to create a safe, nurturing, and educationally excellent learning environment for young people.
We are a small, multi-cultural urban public K-8 school drawing students from all of Portland’s diverse neighborhoods. We are actively teaching and learning a holistic, integrated curriculum.
Exploring themes of our many overlapping environments, students develop academic knowledge and skills while demonstrating personal and social responsibility for all living systems.
We are a small, multi-cultural urban public K-8 school drawing students from all of Portland’s diverse neighborhoods. We are actively teaching and learning a holistic, integrated curriculum.
Exploring themes of our many overlapping environments, students develop academic knowledge and skills while demonstrating personal and social responsibility for all living systems.
Weekly Scope:
My role is to facilitate this service learning experience by coordinating with school administration, teachers, students, donations, and delivery. I spend a half hour in the community kitchen prepping the space cleaning and organizing before the students arrive. Each week I work with 8-10 middle school students for 1 1/2 hours creating 80-100 lunches every Wednesday afternoon. During the time together I facilitate a group discussion centered around volunteerism and supporting causes that impact our community. After we have finished dividing up all the donated food items we all deliver the bagged lunches to the community meal space. When we return from delivering the boxes we clean up the community kitchen space. There is a short wrap up that allows students to share how this experience impacted them.