Complete all components in the activity below according to the given instructions. Refer to the provided rubric for information on how you will be graded. Submit your work as a file attachment using the dropbox. The activity is worth 15 points.

UNIT 2 ACTIVITY
Design a Service Learning Project
The reading discusses Live to Serve, a program in which students design year-long service learning projects to help the community. The examples given are a grant-funded community gardening program and an initiative supported by local businesses to supply student athletes with milk, as well as shoe and food drives and awareness-raising campaigns. Imagine that you are in charge of designing a service learning program. To fund it, you will be either applying for a grant or asking local businesses to contribute in exchange for good publicity. Think of a need that exists in your community. It could be related to food and agriculture products, but, as in the examples, need not necessarily be.

Next, think of a way you (working with other student volunteers) can help address this need by providing necessary items, education or hands-on training to community members. Remember that you will need to persuade others that your project is worthwhile. Create a chart set up like the one below to explain what your proposed project will be.

TABLE 1 Project characteristics chart.
Project title or concept
What problem is it designed to address?
How will your project help solve the problem? Will you provide food, other items, education etc.?
Whom is your project designed to help? Fellow students, a specific group within the community, etc.?
Why do you think this project is important?
TABLE 2 Grading Rubric
Chart (90%) Mechanics (10%)
Full Credit
Project idea is well thought out and provides a reasonably detailed solution to an actual community need
Reasons given for the importance of the project, and the method chosen for helping to solve it, are persuasive and well thought out
Both columns of the student-made chart are filled out completely
There are no, or very few, mechanical errors in writing
Partial Credit
Project idea identifies a problem and a means of solving it, but may be too vague or not thoroughly thought out
Reasons are given for the project selected and the means of helping to solve the problem identified, but they may not demonstrate a great amount of thought or effort
Information is incomplete in less than 20 percent of the chart.
There are several mechanical errors, but the writing is clear
Little Credit
Chart does not provide a complete project idea, including community problem and proposed solution
No clear reasons are given for the project chosen or for the given means of solving it, if any
Information is incomplete in more that 20 percent of the chart.
There are numerous mechanical errors and/or they make the content of the chart hard to understand