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.