Introduction to generationOn – Real-World Learning Through

Service-Learning(with PBL and STEM connections)

About Us:generationOn is the Youth Division of Points of Light Enterprise,

which is the world’s largest nonprofit focused on volunteerism and service. www.generationOn.org

The mission of generationOn is to inspire, equip, and mobilize youth to take action that changes the world and themselves through service.

Learning to Give – Service-learning lessons and teaching resources. www.learningtogive.org

generationOn is being facilitated in Indiana through IASP (Indiana Assoc. of School Principals) and IMLEA (Indiana Middle Level Education Assoc.) by a grant from the Lilly Endowment to help bring more philanthropy education and service-learning to Indiana students.

• Free Support and introductory training at your school is available from Joan Belschwender – Co-Coordianator

• generationOn Indiana – generationOn@iasp.org

Mini-grant opportunities• generationOn Indiana mini-grants – see handout

– $250 mini-grants for teachers in Indiana schools to support service-learning projects.

– The LIVE LINK to this online application is emailed to you from Joan Belschwender

generationOn@iasp.org after you register. -These mini-grants are funded by the Lilly

Endowment and facilitated by IASP. - Mini-grant requirements:

- Teacher must be registered on the website, - Use a Learning to Give lesson with the students,- Submit the data from the project on the service- learning

tracker on the website. - Other mini-grants on the website can be found

ontheEducatorTabhttp://www.generationon.org/educators/lessons-resources/grants

Register “Join Now” on the website –

• This is at NO COST! All the resources, updates, and support from generationOn are FREE!!

• Just log onto www.generationOn.org and “Join Now” on the main page.

• Benefits of registering: Just a few below: – Updates from generationOn including a monthly

generationOn Schools e-newsletter.– Establishing an account that so you can access and

download ANYTHING on the website and submit service-learning projects on the tracker individually or as a school.

– - Eligible for mini-grant opportunities and - Technical assistance from generationOn IN

Points of Entry into generation On – see handout generationOn Schools Program

– Learning to Give Lessons – Over 1600 K-12 lessons.– Themed Units/Lessons – engage youth in service to

meet learning objective and address real-world issues.– Monthly Moments of Service – Real-world teachable

moments to connect academic content and service.– Service-learning tracker– Professional Development opportunities on Service-

Learning and Philanthropy Education– Monthly genOn Schools e-newsletters

generationOn Service Clubs– Elementary age – Kids Care Clubs– Middle or High School Age – genOn Service Clubs

• Monthly Clubs e-newsletters• Grant opportunities • Service tracker KIDS, TEENS, ORGS TAB – Service project ideas and

plans by issue ,how to do guides, much more.

Learning to Give1,600+ lesson plans searchable by:• Standard (state or common core)• Keyword• Theme • Calendar EventThemed UnitsMoments of Service Calendar Project Toolkits Professional Development

www.learningtogive.org

generationOn www.generationOn.org

Inspire, equip and mobilize young people to take action that changes the world and themselves through service. Tabs for different audiences.• Educators• Kids – Elementary age• Teens – Middle and High School • Parents and other Caring Adults • Organizations

Website Tour

www.generationOn.org

Service is…

volunteer action to meet the needs of others or for the common good.

Service-Learning is…

a research-based teaching and learning strategy that engages youth in service to meet learning objectives and address real-world issues through service.

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Service, Service-Learning: What is the difference?

The Six Steps of Service-Learning

• Investigation: Matching student passions and community needs.• Preparation: Getting ready for service through learning. • Action: Service – Direct, Indirect, Advocacy or Research• Reflection: Making meaning through multiple modes.

– Used throughout the process• Demonstration: Public display of the process and impact of

service-learning.• Evaluation: Assessing students’ learning and service.

There are professional development modules and documents on the website that explain these steps in detail. Downloadable and Printable templates to use

with your students. Log into your account to access this website page: http://www.generationon.org/educators/lessons- resources/iparde

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Service-Learning and the Common Core State Standards

Key Traits of the CCSS and how Service-Learning Correlates

• Demonstrating literacy with a variety of texts • Applying learning to new situations, especially

real-world contexts• Knowledge and skills for success in college and

career• Engaging students in critical thinking and

problem solving

Connections to Curriculum – 21st Century Skills • Service-Learning uses:

21st Century Skills:Learning Skills

• Collaboration• Communication• Creative Thinking• Critical Thinking• Problem Solving

Literacy Skills Life Skills – Social responsibility, Leadership,

Initiative, Productivity

PBL and Service-Learning Connection

The Service-Learning teaching and learning strategy is Project-Based Learning with Social Awareness!

PBL – an interdisciplinary approach to teaching that promotes 21st century literacy and learning. Hands-on, student directed learning strategy that challenges them to solve a problem and demonstrate their solution. In-depth investigation using 21st Century skills.

Identifying a problem Determining success criteria Investigating possible solutions Selecting a solution Testing and Presenting that solution Reflection

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Continued : Service-Learning – Connection to PBLService-learning is a student-directed teaching

and learning strategy that empowers students to make a difference addressing real-world issues related to academic content.

Service-learning helps increase student interest, allows for practicing 21st century skills, and promotes self-directed learning and teamwork.

Connections to curriculum are infused into the stages of service-learning. (Similar to PBL steps)

Investigation Preparation Action Reflection – used throughout process Demonstration Evaluation

STEM and Service-Learning Combining STEM with service-learning is a particularly

effective teaching strategy for 21st Century learning. Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math through projects that address community issues equips students to become more competitive in the global workforce, develop leadership skills, and address critical issues.

Learning to Give lessons and concepts give deeper knowledge and real-world purpose to STEM content.

5 Steps of the Scientific Process correlating to the 5 steps of Service-Learning

• Scientific Process Service-Learning• 1. Questioning 1. Investigation

• 2. Research 2. Preparation

• 3. Propose and 3. Action• Test Hypotheses

and Experimentation

• 4. Draw conclusion 4. Reflection

• 5. Communicate Results 5. Demonstration

• SAMPLE LTG/ STEM Lessons on your Handout

Sample LTG Unit – Grade 6-8

• Power of Children – Grade 6-8 – This is a PBL unit developed by Ryan Steuer – Decatur M.S. Apex Team –Indpls.IN http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit533/– Driving Question: How can students create a

positive change in our community?• The students individually identify a need in their

community and research how a service-learning project could be beneficial.

• Students form small groups and create a layout of a service-learning project (including a budget and timeline). Hold a “Service-Learning Expo” where students present their projects. The participants vote on the best projects, and the winning ones will be implemented by the class or

school during the rest of the school year. Twelve lessons.

Sample LTG Unit (Grades 6-8)• Farm to Table and Food Security -

http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit583/ • Developed as a Project Based Learning Unit. PBL and

service-learning have very similar paths of discovery and presentation. The two make a great combination!

• Focus Question: What farm to table factors affect the cost of food production, and how do choices in food production and distribution affect food security in the U.S.? 

STEM focus - Unit 379: Our Air: The Quest for Quality

Lesson 3: Concern + Action = Clean Air Solutions http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit379/lesson3.html Summary: This lesson will serve as the final learning piece, and the

accumulated knowledge will be used to assist the learners in utilizing a role play scenario to come to a consensus plan of action that moves “their community” toward compliance with Air Quality Standards (AQI).This unit is also intended to inspire personal or group action plan for promoting the common good. Academic service learning options will be made available for the learners to plan how to be engaged in direct service, indirect service or take an advocacy position that addresses concerns about air quality.

Service• Create an air quality PBL unit with this as the culminating activity.

Recycling Lessons and Programs

• Unit 378: One Person’s Trash • Lesson 1 – Molehill or Mountain • http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit378/lesson1.html • Summary: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to

the different types of trash, the amounts that are being discarded and what could be done to alleviate trash in their own communities. 

• Unit 376: Global Garbage• Lesson: Talking Trash• http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit376/lesson2.html • Summary: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to

the vocabulary and concepts related to garbage removal.  

Environmental - Water• Unit 5: Are You a River Keeper • Lesson 2: Speedy Water and Sediments• http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit5/lesson2.html • Summary: This lesson will focus on the effect the

speed of water has on erosion rate and the deposition of sediment with learners using inference to draw conclusions. Learners will relate commons, stewardship and the roles of all sectors in reducing rates of erosion in rivers and lakes. Learners will relate what their responsibility is to give of their time, talent or treasure, and take action in preserving and protecting lakes and rivers.

• Service Clean up of a river or water area in your

community.

Energy • Unit 384: You Light up My Life• Lesson: You Light Up My House• http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit384/lesson1.html • Summary: The purpose of this lesson is to show learners how

electricity is used, measured, recorded and calculated. Through the use of data collection tables, this lesson will help students realize how much electrical energy their families consume. They will also develop an understanding of renewable and non-renewable resources that are used to produce electricity. The learners will recognize that stewardship of community resources is the careful management of those resources held by a community for its citizens.– Service

• These lessons are used to develop driving questions for my 6th grade energy unit and promote ways to for students to save energy at home, in the community, and the world.

Sample of Themed Units (Curriculum) from Learning to Give Introduction to Philanthropy Units – Every grade level K-12

http://learningtogive.org/resources/Introduction_to_Philanthropy.pdf

Save the Earth -A compilation of resources to teach young people about the critical subject of environmental stewardship.http://learningtogive.org/savetheearth/

Paw Prints to Learning – Units for K-2, 3-5, 6-8,9-12 – Animal Welfare Lessons http://learningtogive.org/lessons/aspca/

Character Education Lessons – This unit is grade 6-8http://learningtogive.org/lessons/aisd/ and Anti-Bullying Lessons

Financial Literacy – Units for 2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 – Money Smart Children – http://learningtogive.org/teachers/financialliteracy/

There are Many more Themed units on Disaster Relief, Global Citizenship, Health, and Life Skills.

ALL LTG lessons coded to CCSS and State Academic Standards

Moments of Service Calender

Moments of Service and generationOn Signature Events

• Click on the this link to access the calendar and all the Moments of Service Lessons and Project Ideas by Month:

• http://learningtogive.org/genonltg/ • Service Project Toolkits• Projects of the Month

Community Service Project Ideas – On Kids, Teens, Parents, and Orgs Tabs

• Find hundreds of Project Ideas and plans by Issue:– Animals, Environment, Health,

Homelessness, Hunger, Literacy, Peace, Senior, Military

– Let your students INVESTIGATE the issues that interest them to start the service-learning process!!

– “How to Guides” for Kids and Teens

Service-Learning Tracker and Post a Service Story

• Sign into your account • Record your students' service-learning experiences

on generationOn's online service-learning tracker. This helps you tell your service-learning story and measure impact and document learning outcomes. By sharing the results, you can demonstrate to students and the community that young people are able to apply their learning to “make their mark on the world” in meaningful ways.

Introduction to generationOn Content Pack Link

• Type this link below into your browser to access a file of downloadable documents and links to the website to give you a Great Overview of the generationOn Website to view, download, print, and share with others.

http://bit.ly/12Pwgns

generationOn Clubs Empowering Kids and Teens

to Make Their Mark On the World

GenerationOn Clubs provide kids and teens with the

knowledge, access to resources, adult support,

project ideas, and opportunities for action that they

need in order to discover their power to make a

difference.

generationOn Kids Care Clubs – Elementary age

www.kidscare.org

generationon Service Clubs – Middle and High

School age

http://www.generationon.org/teens/join/service-clubs.

Thank you! Joan Belschwender

Contact information:Joan Belschwender : Co-Coordinator generationOn Indiana

Email: generationOn@iasp.orgPhone: 317-891-9900 x201

Hope to see YOU registeredSoon!!!