Service Learning

Habitat Restoration

Service learning integrates community service with instruction that enriches the learning experience, teaches civic responsibility, and strengthens communities. It can be adapted to any age level, and implemented for individuals, groups, and school classrooms (as long as an instructional component exists). Service learning has three main stages:

1. Pre-service/planning – identifying the need, researching and identifying community resources, and developing a plan of action
2. Action – the actual service, research, or advocacy
3. Post-service – processing the experience and demonstrating it in a larger context