Sharing New Plays

With our busy days it is hard to reflect on service projects before our next challenge comes along. For Earth Day take some time to reflect.

Our friends in Michigan came up with these creative reflection projects.

1. Have the students take photographs throughout the process. At the end, tell each student to select a group of photographs that most accurately portrays the experience they had. Have them create a poster using these photographs with captions explaining why they chose particular pictures.

2. Have the group save items throughout the process then use these to make a group scrapbook at the end. Items that could be included - letters, meeting agendas, surveys, phone transcripts, photographs, etc.

3. Ask students to choose one word that best describes their service experience. Have them make a poster based around this word. (This poster could be combined with the photo poster. Students could choose their word, then select photographs that represent it.)

4. Individually or in groups, have students create an artistic representation of their experience. It could be a collage, a drawing, a painting, or a mural.

5. To facilitate a final reflection discussion, create reflection stations by writing questions on chart paper, posting them around the room, and having students write answers to the questions on each chart.

Questions could include
1. What was your most memorable experience?
2. What do you feel best about?
3. How has this experience changed the way you think?

The teacher/facilitator could then use the responses to lead a class discussion.

6. Have students videotape the process throughout then create a documentary at the end. If discussion was the primary mode of reflection, students could record discussions on an audiotape then edit sections to create an audio documentary.

7. Have students create a resume listing the skills they developed or improved through their experience with the activity.

Thank you Michigan!!!

If you have great reflection ideas, feel free to email them to me at anytime! kelly.bradford@leagueworldwide.org