Profiles of Service-Learning Projects

The DPI Service-Learning Coordinator, has compiled a summary of a number of Wisconsin service-learning projects. These projects provide ideas for service-learning projects. The ultimate goal is to integrate service-learning into the curriculum to improve student learning. Additional project examples will be added periodically to this page.

• Southeast Wisconsin Service Learning Consortium (SEWSLC) - SEWSLC is composed of learning institutions, K-12 and higher education, striving to enhance student classroom achievements with applied community learning and to foster meaningful service-learning partnerships and to build the knowledge, skills, values and behaviors of effective citizenship.
• Water Quality Project Has Students Giving Tests - Seymour High School's Science Club tested 75 water samples for arsenic last year and, due to a new grant, can offer professional follow-up testing to families registering unsafe levels in the students' tests.
• Building a Greenhouse - Charles F. Fernandez Center for Alternative Learning, Stevens Point
• Project Heckrodt -  Menasha High School 
• Y.E.S. Team - Prairie du Chien Middle School
• Youth Community Projects - Alma High School, Alma
• Clear Lake Project - Clear Lake Elementary School
• Connecting the Generations - De Soto Middle School, De Soto
• The Giving Garden - West Salem Elementary School
• Make a Difference, All Year Long - Lincoln Elementary School, Shawano
• RSVP and Hartford Teen Volunteers - Hartford Union High School
• Fort Atkinson Community Problem Solvers - Fort Atkinson High School
• Lincoln High School Volunteer Center - Lincoln High School, Wisconsin Rapids
• Reading/Immersion Project - Sauk Prairie Schools, Sauk City
• Seasons of the St. Croix - Grantsburg Middle School
• Community SL Partnerships - Malcolm Shabazz City High School, Madison
• Teens Against Teen Pregnancy - River Bluff Middle School, Stoughton
• Youth Service-Learning Garden Project - Hurley K-12 School
• Make a Difference (M.A.D.) Camp - Seymour Community High School
• Reading is "Fun"damental - Sun Prairie High School

For questions about this information, contact Theresa L. Dary (608) 261-7494

Last updated on 8/7/2008 4:08:00 PM