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Foreign Language Service-Learning Project Ideas

Students learning a foreign language can do many things
to help the community! Here are a few ideas:

Elementary School
Young children are often eager to learn another language. What better way for language students in Middle School or High School to share their new-found language skills than to introduce elementary students to Spanish, German, French or maybe even Italian! In small groups, older students can visit elementary school classrooms and teach language lessons. Everyone will have fun as they either learn a new language or practice it!

Cook Book
Students can meet and interview families that have either recently immigrated to this country or whose relatives came through Ellis Island years ago. In meeting with these members of the community, students can learn more about the history involved with each of these families in migrating to America. They can document their interview so that an excerpt of it appears in the cook book along with each of the recipes gathered from the families they interview. Once completed, the students will have created a valuable culinary resource for use in Food Science classrooms and they will also have documented a piece of their community's history. The cookbook could be sold with proceeds benefiting a local non-profit that serves the immigrant population.

Grant Opportunities provide additional project ideas >>