Project Teams

While an STLP project team can work on any number of service learning projects, below are some ideas to get the creative juices flowing!


  • Start an information campaign for a health or prevention topic.

  • Establish a club to help an elderly neighbors.

  • Write stories about the history of your town for your newspaper or students in younger grades and publish them online.​

  • Make maps of your town for newcomers and highlight useful community resources.

  • Design a mural using technology and then paint the outside of a building in your community

  • Create a public service announcement (PSA).

  • Produce an anti-crime anti-drug, anti-violence play and perform it for others.

  • Create and distribute a list of hotlines or agency links for kids who might need help.

  • Research the need to reduce litter inside and outside your school or other public areas and propose solutions

  • Plan a low-maintenance garden on school grounds or other public areas with probes to monitor water needs.

  • Test school and community drinking water for lead and inform people of lead issues.

  • Create a game to help younger students learn an essential skill

  • Make posters or collages that promote tolerance and understanding of difference. Post them in your school. Start a club to promote peace and tolerance.

  • Find, interview and write histories of diverse people in your community.

  • Learn and create a program to teach about good nutrition.

  • Interview seniors and report on – personal histories, community, and stories of character…

  • Create a cookbook and sell and donate receipts to charity.

  • Record a written work being read aloud to a person who is visually impaired (check copyright)

  • Make digital reading or math flashcards for primary students.

  • Create a play that teaches young children how to stay safe at home while their parents are away.

  • Make a flyer of after-school safety tips for young children

  • Organize a first-aid training session with stations for your school, club, or community

  • Create a video on holiday safety tips.

  • Research your community and write a children's book about it. Record yourself reading it and distribute around the community.

  • Create a digital time capsule of fellow students in your grade to be 'opened' during their senior year.

  • Create a PSA for students coming into next year's class to help them learn about what to expect and how to prepare.

  • Create teaching aids/activity videos for a nearby day care center.

  • Develop booklets on cultures within your school or community. Give them to the library and the Chamber of Commerce

  • Conduct water sampling of local streams, lakes and ponds and provide results to State Dept of Natural Resources.

  • Study traffic patterns and accident reports for roads around school to evaluate safety issues.


Source: https://www.ethicsed.org/project-ideas-for-service-learning.html