Norup 8th Grade Students Present Community Projects

As Norup eighth graders get ready to enter high school, they take part in the 8th Grade Community Project. The eighth-grade community project is a large-scale research and service project that marks the completion of a student’s time in middle school. The community project focuses on community and service, encouraging students to explore their right and responsibility to implement service as action in the community. The community project gives students an opportunity to develop awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning. As a consolidation of learning, the community project engages students in a sustained, in-depth inquiry leading to service as action in the community.

On June 5, 8th graders presented their projects to family and friends. This community service project process began months prior when students formed groups and brainstormed issues that would be of interest to them. Topics covered a variety of issues such as revamping the sensory garden at Burton Elementary, ensuring all teachers at Norup are CPR trained, supplying diapers and wipes to families at Berkley Building Blocks, building a little library for Pattengill Elementary and more!