Second Grade Service Learning

Second graders have been very passionate about their service learning project! Their topic is disability awareness. They first had to start by understanding what the word disability means and we took some time to research different disabilities. Students then dove deeper into the concept of fair vs. equal. They decided that fair doesn’t always mean that everyone gets the same thing, but they get what they need. That brought us to our next conversation about accommodations. Students looked at school and also out in the community and we made a list of all the different accommodations we saw. They made the realization that there are TONS of accommodations out there. Also some accommodations you can find everywhere and some you cannot.  

One accommodation second graders were very interested in learning about was a communication board on playgrounds. Many students have been to a playground that has a communication board, but most playgrounds (including Goodrich) do not have one. We also have students in our class that use a talker as a communication device. Second graders were so excited thinking that their project could help improve recess time for students in our classroom.

After deciding the direction we wanted to go on our service learning project, students got to work advocating for why they thought our school should purchase a communication board on the playground. They wrote letters, drew pictures, and created videos explaining how this board would benefit ALL kids in both our school and the community. We worked with many teachers and compiled all of our hard work onto Wakelet. They worked very hard and are eagerly awaiting their response! 

Check out their hard work: https://wakelet.com/wake/TaLG7KL21LCD_06vn8h7L