Service-Learning Project Descriptions 2006-07
| School | Teacher | Project | Description | CRLS | Community Partners | Community Resources |
| Adams Elementary |
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| Franklin K-8 | ||||||
| Garfield Elementary | Veazie | Big Buddies | Middle School students read and do other activities with the elementary students 30 min. a week. |
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L.P. Soc. Res. Students | |
| Boggs | Kindergarten Science Buddies | 2 advanced 4th and 5th grade students worked as assistants in Mrs. Ardt's K/1 running science stations with the younger students. | P.Manage.01 P.Manage.02 P.Manage.04 P.Solving.01 P.Solving.06 Comm.01 Comm.02 Comm.03 Teamwrk.01 Teamwrk.02 Civic Stand. 1 Civic Stand. 2 |
Mrs. Arndt's K/1 class | ||
| Boggs | Stop the Bullies! | 4/5 gr. students researched bullying and created informative posters to display throughout the school | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving.ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.01 Teamwrk.02 Emp. Found.03 Civic Stand.1-3 |
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| Boggs | Help an ELL (Language Learning Buddies) | Students learned strategies of how to be language teachers and develop friendship/trust and followed up w/ "effectiveness reviews" | P.Manage.01 P.Manage.02 P.Solving.01 P.Solving.02 P.Solving.03 P.Solving.06 Comm.01 Comm.02 Comm.03 Comm.04 Comm.06 Teamwrk.ALL Emp.Found.01 Car.Dev.01 Civic Stand.1-3 |
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| Boggs | Food For Those In Need | 4/5gr. students learned about food drives and poverty, conducted a drive w/in classrooms, created posters and speeches and presented to classrooms | P.Manage.01 P.Manage.03 P.Solving ALL Comm.01 Comm.02 Comm.04 Comm.06 Teamwrk. ALL Civic Stand.1-3 |
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| Boggs | Classroom Officers | 4/5gr.students worked in teams to identify jobs kids can do to help in the classroom. They elected positions (pres, v.p., scribe, enviro.) Created posters, systems and citations. | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm. 01-05 Teamwrk. ALL Emp.Found.01 Civic Stand.1-3 |
$1200 (donors) | ||
| Boggs | Making Reading Fun! | 4/5 graders help k/1 graders find reading material they find interesting and read with them each day. | Nothing Entered | |||
| Boggs | Earth Day School Clean-up | Students cleaned out entire exterior school grounds of waste, litter, garbage. Students work in teams and use safety measures | Nothing Entered | |||
| Boggs | Earth Day Bags | Students decorated 100 grocery bags with Earth Day promotions and gave them to customers at local grocery stores. They watched an in-depth video about earth consciousness. | Nothing Entered | Richey's Market | ||
| Boggs | Earth Day Promotion | Students researched graphic arts and earth day concepts and created full-color posters to display in store windows as part of the Community Art Earth Day project | Nothing Entered | Corvallis Parks and Recreation Gracewinds Music |
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| Birdseye/Holmes | Building Community in the Classroom | students studied "community" and a small group taught others about using problem solving techniques to get along. They made posters for the school halls reminding people how to treat others. They also made a video of interviews and skits to show the class | P.Manage.1-3 P.Solving 1-4 Teamwrk. 02 |
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| Hoover Elementary | Hayes | R.E.A.D. Dogs | Two Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) and their adult trainers provide individual attention to 1st and 2nd grade readers for half an hour each week. Students read to the dogs and trainers provide support and give suggestions for effective reading strategies. Students are very motivated to read with the dogs. | none entered | Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) Teams | |
| Hayes | Parent Reading Helpers | Every week, parents read with children for half an hour to 50 minutes. Volunteers write a short evaluation of each student's reading and offer suggestions to improve fluency. They help students select books, encourage reader and provide individual attention. | none entered | |||
| Hayes | Reading Buddies | 1st and 2nd grade students meet with 3rd graders in Mrs. Reid's class for reading/art/literacy for half an hour each week. Buddies attend a play together at Linn Benton Community College; every year they have a joint picnic at Walnut Park in June. | none entered | |||
| Hayes | Recycling | With adult volunteers, students in 1st and 2nd grade collect paper and plastic recycling once a week for classes K-2. Teams are assigned to each of the 8 classrooms, the office and the Parent Work Center. Recyclable materials are placed in containers for pick-up by Corvallis Disposal's recycling crew. | none entered | |||
| Hayes | Birthday Bash | Students perform "Birthday Bashes" for other 1st and 2nd grade students in this class only. Parents purchase "Bashes" for their children in the class for $18. Profits from the program are divided. Half goes to benefit the class (field trips, purchases for the classroom) and the other half goes to a charity of the students' choice. | none entered | |||
| Kintscher | Read Across America | Community Reader | none entered | |||
| Criscione, M. | Recycle | We collect recycling for the school | Teamwrk. 01 | |||
| Criscione, M. Criscione, A. Eldon, D. |
Bike Safety | Three classrooms get together to learn the rules of the road, signals, safety, etc. | none entered | |||
| Bontrager | Hoover Post Office | Students collected, sorted and delivered Hoover mail during our school post office. They also designed the stationary and stamps for school wide use. | none entered | |||
| Hermens | Office Helpers | Students apply to help in office twice a week and get assigned one month. They get to work in the office and interact with staff, students and the public. Duties include office tasks and learning basics | none entered | |||
| Hermens | Chess Club | Volunteers lead a free chess club once a week for students. | none entered | |||
| Criscione, A. Criscione, M. |
Quilted Pillow Project | Students design and construct a pieced patchwork pillow project incorporating various math skills/strands throughout the year. | P.Manage.1, 2 Civic Standard 2 |
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| Criscione, A. | Multicultural Research | OSU multicultural speakers, which turned into a multicultural powerpoint project. | P.Manage.1, 2 Emp. Found. 1, 2 |
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| Criscione, A. | Who Stole Mr. Bear? | Police officers came in to discuss crime scene investigation during science lesson. Also discussed safety with the students. | Civic Standard 1 | |||
| Criscione, A. McNutt, K. |
Kinder Buddies | Reading with Kinder Buddies weekly. Worked on technology and math sometimes, too. | none entered | |||
| McNutt, K. | Butterfly Garden | Kinders and families plan to create an indigenous butterfly garden: demonstration, maintenance, learning native butterflies and plants | none entered | |||
| McNutt, K. | Woodpecker Loop - Finley NWR | Field Study with 4-5 Buddies Woodpecker Loop; Placed-based ed.; Habitats of Willamette Valley |
none entered | |||
| McNutt, K. | Tennis Wall | Planning, designing, organizing work force to create a tennis wall for students to practice developing tennis skills, "power of practice." Open to school community | none entered | |||
| Reid | Hoover Habitat Heroes | Four parents come in once a month to work with class | P.Manage.1, 5 P.Solving 1, 4 Comm. 6 |
Wildlife Stewards | ||
| Everest, T. | Art Show & Benefit | Every student prepares three art pieces and selects two for display at the show. All Hoover families are invited to attend the evening event, giving donations to benefit the selected charity/organization. | none entered | |||
| McIntyre, K. | Student Council Coin Drive | Coin Drive to collect money for a water treatment/clean water initiative for Africa. We will probably send the money to Mercy Corps to purchase a $1000 well kit, or part of a kit. Students promote coin drive, collect money from classes daily and such. | P.Manage. ALL | |||
| McIntyre, K. | Library Helpers | Fifth grade students have the opportunity to be a library helper in the morning before school and during some break times. They visit classrooms to collect books, check in books, help reshelf, straighten, prepare for the day's classes, turn on computers, and other tasks. They also help younger students find and check out books. | ||||
| McIntyre, K. | Holiday Food and Toy Drive | Students collected food and toys and donated them to Vina Moses. | Vina Moses | |||
| Cook, A. Caster, G. |
Buddy Activities | 4th graders partnered with kinders to put on a thanksgiving feast, write books, and other activies | none entered | |||
| Strowbridge, D. | All Comer Track Meet | Providing a track meet open to all elementary students in Corvallis | none entered | |||
| Strowbridge, D. | Hoover Jump Rope Team | Students performed at half-time for a men's and women's game | none entered | |||
| Young | Post Office | Developed and created stamps, post cards, stationary and directories for the entire school. Ran the Hover Post Office. | ||||
| Phillips, B. | Teaching School Rules | The school's behavior specialist brings new kindergarten students to our 1st grade and we teach them the school rules with a song. | Comm. 5 | |||
| Inman Pastega |
Lochmead Dairy Field Trip | Trip to Lochmead Dairy to see how milk is taken through the process from farm to truck to be delivered to stores. | none entered | |||
| Inman Pastega |
Nutritional Musical | Students performed a musical about good nutrition for school and Corvallis Manor | none entered | Corvallis Manor | ||
| Inman Pastega |
Watering Planters | Nothing Entered | none entered | |||
| Jefferson Elementary | ||||||
| Lincoln K-8 | ||||||
| Mt. View Elementary | A.Ray | How Does Your Garden Grow? | Students performed two plays for parents and the rest of the class. | Nothing Entered | Mt.View School | |
| Holum | Reading Buddies | 3rd graders provide academic, social and emotional support to kindergartners | Teamwrk. 1-2 | |||
| Demeo | Mt. View Post Office | 1st graders ran the post office for 2 weeks. The P.O. provided a way for students and staff to communicate with each other, while the students learned how the post office system works. | P.Manage.
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| Jasperson | Pen Pals | 5th graders formed pen pal buddy teams and write 3 letters to seniors living at the Regent. This living history project culminates in a joint celebration of visits and personal interviews. | Comm.1-2 Civic Stands. 01 |
Heather Docken-Regent | $20.00 |
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| Jasperson | Research Partners | 5th graders partner with a neighboring kindergarten to provide 1 on 1 assistance as kinders begin a research project. | Comm. 1-2 Civic Stand. 01 |
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| Stiverson | Kinder Buddies | Each student assigned a kinder buddy read together, did a math and science projects together, formed friendships, etc. | P.Manage. 1,4,5 Comm. 03 Teamwrk. 1-2 |
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| Wilson Elementary | Harris-Music | Wildcat Park Song | Students composed, practiced and sang to the community two songs to promote rebuilding Wildcat Park. | P.Manage 01, 03 P.Solving 03 Comm.03, 06 Emp.Found. 06 |
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| Bugbee-Reed | Wildcat Park | Students designed their idea of what they wanted to see at Wildcat Park. | P.Manage. 1-3 P.Solving 01 Comm.1-3,6 Emp.Found. 01 Civic Stand. 01 |
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| Harris-Social Studies | Greek Play | Students wrote scripts, practiced and performed a play about geek gods and goddesses. They also sang a song. It was performed for both school and community. | P.Manage. 1,3 P.Solving 05 Comm. 3, 6 Emp.Found. 06 |
$25.00 | ||
| White | Valentines for Veterans | First graders made individual Valentine cards to be given to veterans | P.Manage. 1-2 P.Solving 04 Comm. 03 |
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| McCracken-art/writing | Valentines for Veterans | Students made cards and wrote letters to veterans | Civic Stand. 01 | |||
| Cheldelin Middle School | ||||||
| Linus Pauling Middle School | Klinkhammer-Challenge Read Write | Earth Day Displays | Students discussed history of Earth Day, local parade, Made displays for LPMS as well as downtown windows. Prepared morning Earth Day announcements | Nothing Entered | Youth Volunteer Corps Studio 355 |
$50.00 |
| Klinkhammer-Supported Read-Write | Earth Day | Discussion of Earth Day, Made animal "totem poles" for LPMS to correspond with town Procession of the Species. | Nothing Entered | |||
| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Fair Housing | Carolyn Hines spoke of the fair housing legislation. Students made posters for our building and to enter into the state poster contest. | Nothing Entered | Carolyn Hines | ||
| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Miracle Kids | Students contacted several retirement homes to find one that would like to work with them. They made decorations for the center and later made flower vases. They also met at a parent's home to make cookies to take over there. | P.Manage. 1,2,4 P.Solving 1-5 Comm. 2,3 Teamwrk. 1-2 Civic Stands.1,2 |
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| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Outdoor School Video | After reviewing footage from ODS, students created a storyboard to tell the story for in-coming 6th graders. They set up a Mac, learned to use film editing, added music, and created a video. | P.Manage. 1-3,5 P.Solving 1-3 Comm. ALL Teamwrk. ALL |
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| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Share Shop | Students sorted donated clothes, did lots of laundry, and organized the space for students to come and get clothes. They met with Carolyn Hines to encourage her to use it for homeless families. They put on a fashion show of outfits from the shop during lunch. They opened often during theirlunch and break. | P. Manage. ALL P. Solving ALL Comm. 1, 3 Teamwrk. ALL Civic Stands. 1,2 |
Carolyn Hines | donated clothing | |
| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Web Sites for Teachers | Students learned how to make web pages using FrontPage. They interviewed 6th grade teachers and created web pages for them that link to our school site. | P.Manage. ALL P.Solving 1, 2, 6 Comm. 1-5 Teamwrk. 1 Civic Stands. 1 |
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| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | "House"warming | Spent time planning and preparing appropriate bulletin board displays for the sixth grade "house". Bulletin boards were updated and/or changed weekly | P. Manage. 1-5 Comm. 1,3 Teamwrk. ALL |
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| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | Student Store | Students organized store, created an inventory and work schedule. Opened the store every day during break, ordered new prodects, worked with building secretary to make wekkly deposits. | P. Manage ALL P.Solving 1,2 Comm. 1-3, 5 Teamwrk. ALL Civic Stands. 2 |
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| Klinkhammer -Challenge Read Write | LEED Certification Presentation | Students worked with district maintenance (Noel Mingo) to learn about LEED certification. They prepared a powerpoint and took photos for a presentation that they'll do when the building is awarded this certification in a public ceremony. | P. Manage. ALL P. Solving 1, 4 Comm. ALL Teamwrk. 1 Emp. Found. 3 Civic Stand. 2 |
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| Corvallis High School | Kiekel-Leadership | Winter Gift Giving | Student collected anonymous gift requests from community families. Then they found sponsors for the families, who shopped for, wrapped and delivered the gifts. | P.Manage. ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.01 Comm.02 Comm.03 Comm.06 Teamwrk. 02 Emply.Found. 02 Employ.Found.04 Employ.Found.06-08 Car.Dev.01 Car.Dev.03 Civic Stand. ALL |
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| Kiekel-Leadership | Speghetti Feed | Collected food donations, advertised to all community, including homeless centers, prepared food and entertainment for a one night free dinner | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving.ALL Comm.01-03 Teamwrk.ALL Emp.Found. 06-08 Civic Stand. ALL |
Great Harvest Garland's |
$500 | |
| Kiekel-Leadership | School Recycling | Coordinated and carried out recycling pick ups for school-wide recycling | CRLS ALL Civic Stand.ALL |
Corvallis Disposal and Recycling
754-0444 |
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| Larrowe-Global Studies | Lesotho Preschool | Door to door fundraiser-collected money to buy supplies, games, food and education supplies for orphaned or AIDS children in Lesotho, Africa | P. Manage.ALL P.Solving.ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stand.ALL |
Dale Otto (Connection to Lesotho, Africa) | ||
| Larrowe-Global Studies | Save Darfur | Conducted a penny drive using donation cans at area businesses and collected private donations for the Save Darfur organization. | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving. ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands.1-2 |
Save Darfur Organization | ||
| Larrowe-Global Studies | Environmental Defense Garage Sale | Held garage sale to raise awareness about global warming. Donated proceeds to the Environmental Defense Funds. | P.Solving. ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL |
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| Larrowe-Global Studies | Water in Ethiopia | Held bake sales and collected personal donations. Donated $200 to WaterAid to set up wells in Ethiopian villages. | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands.1-3 |
Corvallis Sister Cities | ||
| Larrowe-Global Studies | Books for Gondor | Held a penny drive and solicited area businesses. $225 was sent through the Sister Cities program to buy books for libraries in Gondor | P.Manage. ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands. 2-3 |
Corvallis Sister
Cities Ass.; Franklin School; Corvallis Businesses |
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| Larrowe-Global Studies | Chechnya Living Conditions | Addressed poor living conditions caused by displacement from war. Donated money to refugee camps. | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL |
International Medical | ||
| Larrowe-Global Studies | Helping Orphans in India | Raised money to train women in India how to care for children. Held an awareness/fundraising night at local restaurant. 25% of proceeds were donated. ($700 raised) | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving.ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands. 1 & 3 |
Evergreen Indian restaurant | ||
| Larrowe-Global Studies | Impoverished Ukranian Children | Sent Valentine cards to Ukraine orphanage. Ushered at a musical event to raise money. Sending sports equipment and a picture to the orphanage. $225 raised. | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands.ALL |
Chaslivtsi Orphanage Alice Rampton Sabra Killen |
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| Larrowe-Global Studies | AIDS in Africa | Held bake sales to raise money to donate to AVERT, an education-based AIDS prevention organization. Presented AIDS info to 509J health classes | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm. ALL Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stands. 1-2 |
AVERT | ||
| Hackethorn-FACS/Sr.Foods | Community Fall Party Treats | Prepared and packaged various healthy snacks that were served at the fall party for area children | Teamwrk.ALL Civic Stand. 1 |
Corvallis Parks and Recreation | $100 | |
| Hackethorn-Child Development | CHS Preschool | Students plan for and run a preschool open to community children | P.Manage.ALL P.Solving ALL Comm.ALL Teamwrk.ALL |
$400 | ||
| Crescent Valley High School | Cornell- AP Env. Science | Recycling Presentations | Students researched recycling facts and presented them to the entire student body and how they can help. they also made signs and put them up around the school by the recycling bins and garbage cans. | P.Manage. 1,2,4,5 P. Solving.01 Comm. ALL Teamwrk 01 Emp.Found.1-3, 6-8 Career Delv. 02 Civic Standards 1, 3 |
CVHS Leadership class | |
| Neal-Horticulture | Food Share Garden | Students designed a winter greenhouse garden, surveyed CV and community needs. they are going to grow and harvest the garden providing produce to: CV Cafe, Food and Fitness, and Linn Benton Food Share | ALL | Linn Benton Food Share Chintimini Wildlife, Master Gardeners |
Selco Grant $250.00 $300 from donor |
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| Neal- Horticulture | Sustainable Recycling Project | 1st semester students surveyed where on campus there is surplus waste materials that the Horticulture class could put into the garden (ex: cardboard, newsprint, shredded paper, plastic used pots, used lumber, used window glass). 2nd semester students will calculate how much they kept out of the landfill | ALL | Allied Waste CSD |
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| Neal-Horticulture | Worm Boxes | Students gathered information from Jeff P. at Chintimini and were able to provide two complete and functioning worm boxes to their staff. Students also gave them a "how to" instructional cd. Worms will be used to feed recovering birds; compost will be used for their garden | ALL | Chintimini Wildlife Master Gardener |
donated lumber: $150.00 | |
| Ellingson-Leadership | Brighter Future for You | Two students sold compact fluorescent light bulbs with the proceeds going to Solar CREEK whose next project is to put solar panels on CHS | P.Manage. 01, 03,
05 P. Solving.01-05 Comm. 01, 03, 06 Teamwrk ALL Emp.Found.03, 6, 8 Career Delv. 01 Civic Standards 1, 3 |
Solar CREEK Katherine Cleland OSU Printing Light bulb co. |
$30 | |
| Ellingson-Leadership | Week of Peace | Students researched a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and made a poster to put up in the school. | P.Manage. 02 P. Solving 01, 04-05 Comm. 01, 03 Teamwork ALL Civic Standard 1 |
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| Ellingson-Leadership | Blood Drive | Students organized and coordinated a blood drive | P.Manage. ALL p. Solving.01-03 Comm.01-05 Teamwork ALL Emp. Found. 03 Emp. Found. 06-08 Civic Standard1 |
American Red Cross | ||
| Ellingson-Leadership | Essential Needs Drive | Students organized an essential needs drive. The items were donated to the Jackson Street Youth Shelter & LB Food Share | P.Manage.01-02 P.Manage.05 P. Solving.01 Comm.01 Comm.03 Teamwork.ALL Emp. Found.06-08 Civic Standard 2 |
Jackson Street Youth Shelter; Linn Benton Food Share | ||
| Moses-Ceramics | Table Construction | Advanced welding students built work table for art dept. | P.Manage. ALL P. Solving.01-03 Emp. Found.01-02 Emp. Found.06-08 Career Develop.01 Civic Standard.2 |
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| Moses-Ceramics | Kiln Construction | Advanced students constructed a firing kiln for the ceramics department | P.Manage. ALL P.Solving.01-03 Emp. Found.01-02 Emp. Found.06-08 Career Develop.01 Civic Standard.2 |
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