Service Learning

This document provides a guide and planning space for IDTs and teachers aiming to design service-learning projects. 

This document provides a guide and planning space for IDTs and teachers aiming to design service-learning projects. 

These LSS Service-Learning Implementation Plans include information on how systems plan to monitor and evaluate the quality of service-learning projects carried out by its students. 

Learn how schools can benefit from the support and expertise of local businesses, organizations, and individuals, and discover strategies for fostering successful business and community partnerships.

This document provides teachers with an overview of service-learning; its use as an intructional practice; and the standards by which quality service-learning experiences are measured. 

Help your students find a larger sense of purpose in their schoolwork even as they achieve educational goals.

Here's a simple definition for service learning with details and resources for planning a unit.

​Service-learning projects must include academic preparation, service activities, and structured reflection. This brief overview from MSDE explains each stage of service-learning clearly and concisely. 

Justification, project ideas, and planning tools for middle school service-learning.

This infographic aligns National Service-Learning standards with the Maryland 7 Best Practices for Service-Learning

This document is an extended interactive introduction to service-learning that teachers can use in the classroom. All teacher notes, media, and questions for students are included.  This lesson can take between 60 and 80 minutes, depending on how the teacher elects to present it to students. 

This document is an abridged version of an interactive introduction to service-learning that teachers can use in the classroom. All teacher notes, media, and questions for students are included.  This lesson can take between 20 and 40 minutes, depending on how the teacher elects to present it to students. 

This MSDE developed activity guides students through a purposeful process of selecting a service-learning topic that is meaningful to them and their community. 

This MSDE developed activity guides students through a purposeful process of selecting a service-learning topic that is meaningful to them and their community. 

This article from Edutopia includes project ideas and resources for teaching students about social justice.