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1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Why Should I Care?
3. What Have Other Young People Done?
4. Who Can Help You Make a Difference?
5. Resources and Support

What is School-Based Service-Learning?

Recently, a group of young people, ages 11-25, from around the state of Washington defined service-learning as:

Service is...

• doing something to help someone else.
• doing something you feel good about.
• doing something for others even if it doesn't help you.
• giving a community contribution.
• having a commitment to the well-being of the community.
• strengthening community values.
• seeing a need and acting on behalf of it.

Learning is...

• teaching others.
• understanding something new.
• being open to knowledge.
• gaining experience.
• putting something into your long-term memory.
• trial and error.
• struggle leading to progress.
• character building.

School-Based Service-Learning is...

• restoring a stream habitat as part of your biology class.
• using what you are learning in school to help others.
• writing stories and making books for a Head Start program as part of your English class.
• painting a mural over an area that usually gets "tagged" by graffiti as part of your art class.

1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Why Should I Care?
3. What Have Other Young People Done?
4. Who Can Help You Make a Difference?
5. Resources and Support