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K-12 Curriculum

Introductory Service-Learning Ideas for Teaching Academic Curriculum [link to this publication in our Store]
Starter ideas for using service-learning in K-12 Social Studies, Language Arts, and Science.

SLICE: Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples
http://www.servicelearning.org/slice/index.php
This new tool from Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is a searchable database of hundreds of high quality service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas.

Service-Learning and the Content Standards http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/sl/standards.asp
California Department of Education’s CalServe Initiative has examples of linking service-learning to the state’s academic standards.

Publications
If there is a bible of K-12 service-learning, it is Cathryn Berger Kaye’s Complete Guide to Service-Learning http://www.abcdbooks.org.

How to evaluate service-learning is a perennial issue. We’re partial to The Evaluation Handbook: Practical Tools for Evaluating Service-Learning Programs [link to this publication in our Store], co-authored by our Executive Director, Mark Batenburg.

Service-learning is finding a new and exciting home in afterschool programs. The only how-to book we know of in this field is Service-Learning in Afterschool Programs: Resources for Afterschool Educators [link to this publication in our store]