Service Learning

Service learning is a philosophy, pedagogy, and model for community developement that is used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards. It is required by the School District of Philadelphia that each high school senior complete 120 hours of community service by the end of 12th grade. We complete this service through a program called service learning in my school each year. This year for service learning I am working with Ms. Klose on a fundred Dollar Bill project. This project helps aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Scientists are trying to find a way to make the soil in Louisiana safe again. During and after the Hurricane the soil in Louisiana was heavily polluted. It is dangerous to drink the water in certain parts of the state and to eat the food grown in the polluted soil. Scientist are trying to restore safety for the residents of Louisiana and get things almost back to normal.