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Intergenerational

Click here to see all results for this topicIntergenerational service-learning projects involve students and older adults. These projects typically involve students being exposed to issues of aging, mental health, nutrition, and fitness through service to another generation.
September 2004 (Updated July 2008)
  
Relevant Links
  • NSLC Intergenerational Links
  • Elderhostel's Service Learning Programs
  • Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement (EASI)
  • Experience Corps
  • K-8 Curriculum Examples from Community Works
  • Senior Adults for Greater Education (SAGE)
  • SaYES - Seniors and Youth Engaged in Service: A joint initiative of Learn and Serve America and Senior Corps created to connect Senior Corps volunteers in supporting K-12 service activities and service-learning programs.
  • Senior Corps
  • Tools from NWREL for Senior Corps projects engaged in tutoring, mentoring, and out-of-school time.
Recommended NSLC Library Items* (How to Borrow)
  • Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow (2008)
  • Youth-Adult Partnerships in Community Decision Making: What Does It Take to Engage Adults in the Practice? (2007)
  • Generators: 20 Activities to Recharge Your Intergenerational Group (2005)
  • Service Learning and Community Collaboration: Designing Cross-Generational Intervention Projects for Pre-Adolescent Girls (2005) Full Text
  • Stories of America's Veterans (2005)
  • Connecting the Generations: A Practical Guide for Developing Intergenerational Programs (2004)
  • Reinventing Aging: Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement (2004)
  • The Potential of Older Workers for Staffing California’s After-School Programs (2003)
  • Engaging Older Volunteers in After-School Programs (2002)
  • Service-Learning for Senior Corps (2002)
  • For the Classroom Teacher: Realizing Results with Your Senior Volunteer (33K pdf)
  • Grandpartners: Intergenerational Learning and Civic Renewal, K-6 (2001)
  • Intergenerational Oral History Program: A Service Learning Model: Facilitator's Manual (2000)
  • Senior Volunteers in Literacy Programs: A Study of Design and Practice (2000)
  • Serving to Learn: Generation-2- Generation: Integrating Intergenerational Service-Learning Across the Curriculum (2000)
  • Intergenerational Service Learning [video] (no date)
  • Intergenerational Service Learning: A Guide for Faculty (1995)
  • Becoming a School Partner: A Guidebook for Organizing Intergenerational Partnerships in Schools (1992)

Publications Available for Order

  • Off Their Rockers Into Service: Connecting the Generations Through Service-Learning
Effective Practices
  • Intergenerational effective practices from the EpiCenter database
Related Hot Topics
  • Curriculum Ideas
Featured Book
 
Connecting Generations, Strengthening Communities
Connecting Generations, Strengthening Communities: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Intergenerational Program Planners (2005)
 

Wisdom Teachings: Lessons Learned from Gatherings of Elders (2005)
 
 
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  • SaYES -- Seniors and Youth Engaged in Service
  • Intergenerational Service-Learning: Useful Resources

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