Additional Info:
The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of service activities, community service project ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources that can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author, and internationally known service learning expert, Cathryn Berger Kaye presents service learning—its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges—within a curricular context and organized by theme. This new revised and updated second edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced to reflect the most up-to-date information on service learning programs and pedagogy.

Benefits include:

• A blueprint for service learning, from getting started to assessing the experience
• Integration of K–12 service learning standards new!
• Inspiring quotations, background information and resources, preparation activities, real-life examples and community service project ideas that have worked for other teachers
• 13 thematic chapters (including 2 new themes) covering topics commonly selected for service learning projects:
• AIDS Education and Awareness
• Animal Protection and Care
• Elders
• Emergency Readiness new!
• The Environment
• Gardening
• Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices new!
• Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
• Immigrants
• Literacy
• Safe and Strong Communities
• Social Change: Issues and Action
• Special Needs and Disabilities
• Hundreds of real-life field-tested service learning projects, including dozens of new projects
• Ideas for fortifying service learning programs by incorporating global literacy and creating a culture of service new!
• A CD-ROM with over 200 pages of forms and bonus materials including:
• All of the planning and tracking forms from the book, many customizable 
• 39 sample planning templates for all service learning themes at each grade level
• 10 original essays written by experts in the field
• More than 300 additional book recommendations
• 22 author interviews, including new interviews with authors Laurie David, Allan Stratton, Cynthia Lord, Jordan Sonnenblick, Tony Johnston, Kathe Koja, Danica Novgorodoff, Dana Reinhardt, Janet Tashjian, Deborah Ellis, Sonia Levitin, Ellen Senisi, and more!

“Bookshelf” sections describe hundreds of books that offer teachable moments about community service, responsibility, caring, and helping, as well as ways to encourage discussion and make the lesson last. Each of the more than 300 annotated book listings helps combine literature and service learning. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
List of Reproducibles
CD-ROM Contents
Foreword
A Word from the Author
About This Second Edition
Introduction

Part One - The Service Learning Handbook
ch. 1 What is Service Learning?
A Definition of Service Learning
Before You Start: Frequently Asked Questions
What Makes Service Learning Successful?
The Process of Service Learning: The Big Picture
An Example of Putting It All Together: Service Learning Meets the Canned Food 21 Drive
What Next?

ch. 2 A Blueprint for Service Learning
Getting Started: A Blueprint
Beyond the Basics: Advancing Your Service Learning Practice
Going Global
Curve Balls and Stumbling Blocks in Service Learning

ch. 3 The Theme Chapters and the Service Learning Bookshelf
Getting Oriented: About the Thematic Chapters
About the Service Learning Bookshelf
What's on the Shelf? Features of the Service Learning Bookshelf
Using the Service Learning Bookshelf

Part Two - Service Learning Themes
ch. 4 AIDS Education and Awareness
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving AIDS Education and Awareness
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The AIDS Education and Awareness Bookshelf

ch. 5 Animal Protection and Care
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Animal Protection and Care
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Animal Protection and Care Bookshelf

ch. 6 Elders
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Elders
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Elders Bookshelf

ch. 7 Emergency Readiness
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Emergency Readiness
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Emergency Readiness Bookshelf

ch. 8 The Environment
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving the Environment
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Environment Bookshelf

ch. 9 Gardening
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Gardening
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Garden Bookshelf

ch. 10 Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Healthy Lives, Healthy Choice Bookshelf

ch. 11 Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty Bookshelf

ch. 12 Immigrants
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Immigrants
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Immigrants Bookshelf

ch. 13 Literacy
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Literacy
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Literacy Bookshelf

ch. 14 Safe and Strong Communities
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Safe and Strong Communities
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Safe and Strong Communities Bookshelf

ch. 15 Social Change: Issues and Action
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Social Change: Issues and Action
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Social Change: Issues and Action Bookshelf

ch. 16 Special Needs and Disabilities
Preparation: Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Special Needs and Disabilities
Making Connections Across the Curriculum
Service Learning Scenarios: Ideas for Action
The Special Needs and Disabilities Bookshelf

Part Three - A Culture of Service
ch. 17 Creating a Culture of Service
Why a Culture of Service Learning?
Growing Service Learning at Your School

An Author's Reflection
Resources
Index
About the Author