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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 Horticulture Classes

• Create a set of "Tree Cookies". Plan a lesson about the "Tree Cookies" to present to peers or a younger group of students.
  Making Tree Cookies
  
  
• Grow plants from seed to take to a hospital or care center.
  
  
• Volunteer to maintain the yard of an elderly or disabled community member.
  
  
• Grow a vegetable garden and donate the produce to a local food bank or soup kitchen, then volunteer to help prepare a meal using your vegetables.
  
  
• School Beautification: Students plant trees, bulbs, and flowers on the school campus. They build benches and paint them. Students can also conduct a litter pick-up on the the campus every week. This encourages students to take pride in their school.
  
  
  
  

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