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Creating a Healthy Environment (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
Armed with rakes, wheelbarrows, shovels, and cordless drills, more than 150 freshman students from the Lowell Area Schools helped prepare the Mel Trotter Ministries Camp & Retreat Center for summer campers. The Center, located near Hopkins , Michigan , serves at-risk youth from the Grand Rapids area. It offers a safe and healthy outdoor environment for campers to learn about themselves, faith, teamwork, and the avoidance of risky behavior. The students built picnic tables and benches, replaced flooring in the cabins, spread mulch, and addressed other camp needs.
On the same day, in a totally different neck of the woods, 150 of their fellow classmates formed their own shovel brigade in Southeast Grand Rapids . They teamed up with students from Ottawa Hills High School and worked for two days to beautify parks and Southeast neighborhoods.
And, for both Lowell groups, at the end of the day their work was not done. After the hands-on service, their teachers guided them in applying their experiences and learning to their academic classes and everyday lives. English teachers used the projects to give a better understanding of self, peer, and community awareness. Social studies instructors asked students to consider the impact of being responsible citizens. Science teachers had students appreciating the environment and the benefits of restoration and preservation efforts. And math teachers had them understanding the mathematical applications at their job sites, such as measurement, calculating, charting, and graphing.
These are but two examples of the 24,828 hours of service-learning Lowell students participated in last year. This commitment to community involvement and development engaged 2,346 students, 77 teachers, and 131 volunteers. Lowell 's service-learning programs were funded by the Michigan Community Service Commission's Learn and Serve – Michigan program. The school was recently awarded a $24,500 Learn and Serve – Michigan school-based grant for the 2006-07 school year.
On the same day, in a totally different neck of the woods, 150 of their fellow classmates formed their own shovel brigade in Southeast Grand Rapids . They teamed up with students from Ottawa Hills High School and worked for two days to beautify parks and Southeast neighborhoods. And, for both Lowell groups, at the end of the day their work was not done. After the hands-on service, their teachers guided them in applying their experiences and learning to their academic classes and everyday lives. English teachers used the projects to give a better understanding of self, peer, and community awareness. Social studies instructors asked students to consider the impact of being responsible citizens. Science teachers had students appreciating the environment and the benefits of restoration and preservation efforts. And math teachers had them understanding the mathematical applications at their job sites, such as measurement, calculating, charting, and graphing.
These are but two examples of the 24,828 hours of service-learning Lowell students participated in last year. This commitment to community involvement and development engaged 2,346 students, 77 teachers, and 131 volunteers. Lowell 's service-learning programs were funded by the Michigan Community Service Commission's Learn and Serve – Michigan program. The school was recently awarded a $24,500 Learn and Serve – Michigan school-based grant for the 2006-07 school year.
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