Remove Development and Fund Raising Remove Research Remove Student Development
article thumbnail

20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Toy Donation Drive Students can gather new or gently used toys to bring holiday cheer to children in hospitals or family shelters, brightening their winter season. A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

article thumbnail

Middle and High School PBL: 10 Earth Day Project Idea Driving Questions?

Experiential Learning Depot

This post offers 10 Earth Day project idea driving questions that challenge your students to protect, conserve, and preserve the Earth for generations to come. Earth Day is one of my favorite days of the year to develop experiential science learning activities around! Should we be putting funding and energy into individual species?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

12 Community Action Project Ideas to Wrap Up the School Year

Experiential Learning Depot

Design and Make a Product: The idea behind this community action project is that students design and make something that raises awareness and provides a tangible outcome. The product should be usable or sellable to raise money for the chosen cause. That is technically raising awareness, but it's not a head-turner.

article thumbnail

Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this commentary, Professor Ross Tuffee discusses the importance of developing “un-employability skills” in student cohorts. Whatever a student’s destination, the development of an entrepreneurial mindset will positively contribute to their career development.

article thumbnail

Five High School Senior Project Examples to Inspire and Motivate

Experiential Learning Depot

. ​Students explore careers of interest, research the logistics that come with those careers, design and lead their own community action projects around issues relevant to a career of interest, develop 21st-century skills, and build a stunning and robust career portfolio to showcase these learning experiences.

article thumbnail

The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Make it possible for instructors to provide more individualized feedback and to participate in more student engagement activities (like student-faculty lunches or co-curricular activities), by, for example, shifting from 3 to 4 credit hour classes and giving faculty access to modest student engagement funds.

article thumbnail

Trying to teach students to tolerate disagreeable speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner. Is this diversity newsletter?: