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1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Ways to Enrich Classroom Teaching
3. Linking Service Activities to the Essential Learnings
4. Building Effective Curriculum
5. Resources for Faculty

Ideas for enriching Health classes:

Service as a Healthy Activity
Knowing that service promotes a sense of well being, many schools are including service in their overall health curriculum. By encouraging students to have a volunteer experience, health teachers hope to provide the skills and experiences students need to be able to make service a lifetime habit.

Students Applying Their Skills

• Take Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training and join the local volunteer ambulance crew.



• Help the Red Cross collect blood.



• Conduct blood pressure screenings.



• Youth as Health Educators: HIV/AIDS Peer education is a perfect venue for service-learning projects that can be directed toward student-to-student efforts as well as student to community projects. Many groups also participate in mall-based health and wellness projects by setting up and staffing booths that provide information about HIV/AIDS. Some participate in AIDS Walks to raise money for local AIDS task forces, provide support to people who are living with AIDS by running errands for them, and reading to them.



• Teach first aid to younger students and to the public.



• Teach basic home emergency skills to young children who are home alone.

1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Ways to Enrich Classroom Teaching
3. Linking Service Activities to the Essential Learnings
4. Building Effective Curriculum
5. Resources for Faculty