Service-Learning Project Examples

Laura describes a student project—organizing a venue for distributing donated goods—and the skills it required of her students.

Chinma shares three of her students’ projects, including creating a quiz app for teaching mathematics to elementary school children.

Aaron describes several student projects, including fundraising and awareness-raising initiatives as well as hands-on work helping restore a damaged wetland area.

Celeste shares two projects from her classroom, a Walk for Water fundraiser and a humanitarian-mapping initiative.

Penélope talks about some of her students’ projects, including a food drive, a coat drive, and a fundraising partnership with a nonprofit organization in Guatemala.

An AP Computer Science A teacher will walk you through their process for investigating a topic, defining a project, and taking action.

An AP Environmental Science teacher will walk you through their community composting project and discuss how they used student passions to define projects and share how to effectively develop an action plan.

An AP Statistics teacher will walk you through one of their students service learning projects and explain how they connected it to AP course content and leverage community partners.