Hello Everyone,
For one of my graduate classes this semester, I have been focused on service-learning, especially viable opportunities for elementary students to learn as they serve others.
As my final project for the course, I have created a “Book Buddies Service-Learning Project” planned for fifth grade students and kindergarten students to be “reading buddies for about a month. Each pair (or group) will choose a picture book for the fifth grader(s) to read aloud as a vodcast. Kindergarteners will listen to the vodcasts and write “My favorite book is ____ because…” opinion pieces, which they will read to their buddies on video. Fifth graders will journal throughout the project, and QR codes will be created by them to affix to book copies in the kindergarten classroom library and the library media center, so the vodcasts can be played while any user has the books and a QR scanning application, such as i-nigma, on a mobile device.
Check out the plan by vising my Google Drive folder.