Post #6

I picked to do service learning. My hypothetical situation would be to get my (lets say 5th grade) students to understand the importance of fire safety in their home. I would start by getting some supplies donated by the local Red Cross. If they could afford to donate 25-30 medium sized boxes, lots of bandaids, lots of gauze, neosporin, medical tape, peroxide, alcohol, and a few more basic supplies that a first aid kit would need. I would set aside a few days for this assignment. I would have them put together their own first aid kit and make a floor plan of their house and make an evacuation plan. After the students finish their assignment, I would also try to bring in a firefighter to inform the students of the importance of fire safety.  I think that the students (especially the boys) would be very excited to see a real firefighter in their classroom. I think all the students would love to do the activities and that alone would hopefully make it stick with them in the future. I think a few obstacles that would come up would be getting the firefighter in the first place. That may become difficult to get one or two firefighters out to a school, but I would hope that they would see the importance in this assignment and help me out. Another obstacle would be if the firefighters showed up in their awesome fire truck and maybe let the kids get inside to see it, I would need a permission slip to send home to their parents beforehand. Or the other students in the school may want to get in the fire truck as well and that may cause a few problems with other classes. Also, if there is a child in a wheelchair, I would find a way to include them too and get them up in the fire truck as well, even if I had to carry them up there myself. Those are just a few obstacles that would maybe come up, but I would hope that this would be a great learning experience for the kids and really help them and maybe even save a life one day in their future (Ormrod 232).