Service learning
What is Service learning?
Service-learning is when we identify real community needs, take action to help, and reflect on what we learn in the process. It's a bridge between academics and the real world.
True or False: We currently have 3 goats at Westgate
False: We have 4 goats at Westgate currently, Luna, Marshmallow, Melvin, and Bear.
What is the name of our barn cat?
Monty
Name something that you could do to help out at the Coop.
Answers may vary, give points to teams with appropriate answers. Examples may include: walking the goats, cleaning their enclosures, making enrichment toys for the animals, collecting leaves to use for bedding and treats, writing an instruction manual for hatching chicks, making a video about how to clean the coop, pulling weeds near the farm, and more.
Name at least two of the four types of service. Bonus 100 points for a correct example of those services.
Direct Service – Helping people face-to-face
Example – serving food at a shelter, cleaning up a park
Indirect Service – Helping behind the scenes
Example – collecting cans for a food drive, making blankets for shelter pets
Research-Based Service
Example – Surveying students about energy usage and sharing the results with the school
Advocacy-Based Service
Example – Writing letters to lawmakers about saving trees, making posters about recycling.
True or False: During school breaks, our after-school program, Champions takes care of the Coop.
False, the Chicken Tenders help take care of the Coop over breaks, evenings, and weekends. Chicken Tenders are family volunteer who stop by the farm to give the animals food and water and make sure all the animals are safe and loved.
List three of our chickens (not chicks in the 3-4 pod, just the regular chickens) names.
Hen Solo, Popcorn, Fuzzy, Westie, Buttercup, Penguin, Summer, Lemon, Dora the Eggsplorer
Name a direct service that you could do out at the Coop.
Answers may vary.
What type of service is this? Studying how noise affects concentration and reporting your findings.
Research-based service.
True or False: Chickens can get a wide variety of diseases and are not very hardy animals.
True, they are prone to getting many diseases and are not hardy hardy animals.
Name two of the new chicks (now almost fully grown chickens) names.
Edward, Happy Feet, Jellybean, Ruffles, and Mochi.
A student seems to be petting the chickens roughly and chasing them and the chickens seem scared. What's the right thing to do?
Answers may vary.