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Joining Hands Service Learning Tool Kits

The Joining Hands Service Learning Tool Kits were developed by classroom teachers, university student teachers, and community agency members under the guidance of Dr. Rahima Wade.  Service-learning teachers know that the best projects are developed in context – considering the interests of students, the needs of the community, and your curricular goals and content.  The Joining Hands Tool Kits are a brainstormed list of ideas to help you design a high quality service learning project to meet your needs.

The ideas in the Joining Hands Tool Kits will be useful in a variety of civic engagement and service-learning programs. Adults, college students, and high schools students working with younger students will find these "idea banks" a great resource for generating service-learning project plans. Busy pre-service and in-service teachers will find the tool kits helpful in sharing with their K-8 students to plan projects that meet both student and community needs. The Joining Hands Tool Kits can be used effectively in all of the following settings:

college civic engagement and service-learning programs
after school community service and service-learning programs
pre-service teacher education programs
K-8 classrooms in public and private schools
community-based service-learning programs

Each kit contains all of the following:

25+ service project ideas (direct, indirect, and advocacy)

30+ reflection questions (for before, during and after the service)

40+ ideas for connecting the service to a variety of subject areas in the curriculum

a list of selected annotated children’s literature books

discussion questions and activities for two of these books

a list of annotated resource books on the theme


Please Note: Tool Kits on the same theme have similar content except for the children’s book lists and the activities and discussion questions for the two selected books.

Purchase all 8 Joining Hands Service Learning Tool Kits for just $35.99 and they will be emailed to you!

Want to skip the hassle of downloading and printing all these pages? Order the entire collection of 8 Joining Hands Service Learning Tool Kits printed, bound and shipped to you via media mail rate. $60 The printed and bound set of 8 kits can be purchased with a purchase order.  Please email Rahima for details.

See below for specifics on each kit and download your FREE Poverty/Hunger Kit for Gr. 4-8 classrooms HERE! 

Animals (Gr. K-3)        $5.99

Bonus Book Ideas!

With activities and discussion questions for the books Panda, So Many Cats, and Animals: Wildlife Around the World.  18 pp. 


 

Animals (Gr. 4-8)  $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for The Junkyard Dog and The Hostage. 23 pp. 

 

Environmental (Gr. K – 3)   $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for City Green and Just a Dream. 16 pp. 


 

Environmental (Gr. 4-8)  $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for Waterman’s Boy and Who Really Killed Cock Robin? An Ecological Mystery. 20 pp. 


 

Poverty/Hunger (Gr. K-3)  $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for A Day’s Work and Fly Away Home. 16 pp. 


 

Poverty/Hunger (Gr. 4-8)  FREE

With activities and discussion questions for December Stillness and Plain City. 19 pp. 


 

Intergenerational (Gr. K-3)  $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for Now One Foot, Now the Other and Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge. 16 pp. 


 

Intergenerational (Gr. 4-8)  $5.99

With activities and discussion questions for The Remembering Box and Walk Two Moons. 18 pp.