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Service Learning
"Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities." (Retreived Sept. 18, 2006 at http://www.servicelearning.org/who_we_are/media_guide/index.php#1.)

Abstracts of Service Learning Projects
Though these examples are not all waste-related, they do provide examples of successful projects occurring throughout the nation.
1) Using service-learning to introduce at-risk students to a broader community
2) Expanding youth employment opportunities with an entrepreneurial endeavor
3) On the Road Again Tire Collection Program, p. 9
4) Students Graduate to Safe Disposal--Household Hazardous Waste Disposal, p. 10
5) Old Computers Find New Homes, p. 11
6) Upholding Village Values by Teaching Our Grandchildren, p. 12
7) Working with Worms, p. 14
8) Stewardship in Action: E-Teams Mentor then Lead Service Projects (cleaning up vacant lots, stenciling storm drains, etc.), p. 17
9) From Paper to Flowerpots: Recycling Paper into Flowerpots to Share with Elders, p. 18
10) Charged up About Recycling: Battery Recycling Program, p. 20

Environmental Protection Agency Service Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom
This pdf provides brief overviews of 17 environmental service-learning projects.

Corporation for National & Community Service
This website is a resource center with tools and training for volunteers and service projects.

The Giraffe Heroes Project
The website's home page states: "Giraffe Heroes are people who stick their necks out for the common good. The nonprofit Giraffe Heroes Project tells their stories on podiums, in materials for schools and in the media. Giraffe Heroes are models for the rest of us." Read some of the stories and find resources at this site.

Learning to Give
An index of lesson plans is available at http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/index_page.asp. A sampling of lessons include: History of philanthropy lessons, a lesson to help students decide what type(s) of service learning to engage in, and a concluding lesson where students reflect on the service learning project . Great service learning education site.

National Service Learning Clearinghouse
This is a national site for service learning information. It includes e-clips and Google news stories for the latest on service learning, a definition of service learning, resources, and other information.

Website mission: Provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lessons plans, and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste in K-12 classrooms. Webmaster: Susan Salterberg, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293; salterberg@uni.edu Last Updated: January 5, 2005; Copyright 2005 University of Northern Iowa. All Rights Reserved. http://www.uni.edu/ceee/wastereduction

Thanks to the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa and especially to their director, John Konefes, and to their webmaster, Jason Ebensberger, for assistance with this website. This website was prepared with the support of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Contract Number 04-G550-24. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IDNR. Funding support was also provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP): Invest in Iowa , our outdoors, our heritage, our people. REAP is supported by the state of Iowa, providing funding to public and private partners for natural and cultural resource projects, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, parks, trails, historic preservation and more.