Media

Video Resources

The videos below include great examples of service-learning, project based learning, investigation/preparation/reflection resources, and videos used in Partnerships Make A Difference graduate courses and workshops. To view videos featuring teachers reflecting on their use of service-learning/PBL as an instructional strategy, click here.

"Growing Together" Network Videos

Critical Issues Summit: September 20, 2016

"To Create a Better Generation ..." A Promise Story from because I said I would (March 1, 2015)

"Power of Service-Learning" Youth Leadership Summit (May 6, 2013)

Intergenerational

Everyday People Make A Difference: Grandpals of Norworth
Nancy Hellickson's 5th graders at Sutter Park Elementary (Worthington, OH) formed lasting relationships with residents of Norworth Convalescent Center. In the process, the students enriched their social studies, language arts, science, and art knowledge and skills. View video.

WORKSHOP VIDEOS

Beating Childhood Cancer--Ryan Rings His Bell: Click here to view video.

Blankets Tell the Story: Click here to view video.

Cells Gone Wild: This award winning video is the culmination of Cells Gone Wild from Meridian Early College High School. This project was nominated as Best-in-Network by New Tech Network National as an outstanding example of authentic project-based learning. Click here to view Cells Gone Wild.

Elementary Project: Courtyard Redesign: 5th graders from Madison Wisconsin public school present their finished designs to a group of school architects, planners, & designers.The video also demonstrates teacher planning. (Buck Institute for Education) Click here to view video.

How Mattie Stepanek's Words Inspired Millions--The Oprah Winfrey Show: In 2001, Oprah introduced the world to an extraordinary little boy, the poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek. Mattie was just 11 years old when he came into Oprah's life and viewers learned about this pint-size philosopher's daily battle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. He and Oprah became very close friends, and when Mattie died, in 2004, at the age of 13, Oprah spoke at his funeral. Then, in the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, she selected Mattie as one of her all-time favorite guests. Watch to learn more about the child Oprah called "a prophet for our time, who just happened to be dressed in little-boy clothes. Click here to view video.

Hurricane Harvey--The Aftermath: Grabriel Gatehouse reports from Houston on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (BBC) Click here to view video.

Learning in Deed: This video was created as a result of the report from the National Commission on Service-Learning, reflecting nearly a year of study and discussion about service-learning, a teaching strategy that combines service to the community with classroom curriculum in K-12 schools. Click Part 1 and Part 2 to view complete video. Click here to view Mural Project and Hospital Project.

Media Saves the Beach: An eleventh grade class at HTHMA is inspired by a state policy to cut the water testing budget in San Diego. Click here to view video.

My Restaurant Project (Buck Institute for Education): Middle school students from TEAM Academy create menus, grant letters, commercials, and multimedia presentations for a health restaurant. (Visit teamschools.org)

On the Road--One of Sports' Most Bitter Rivalries Helps Boy Beat Cancer: As part of our continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman meets a seventh-grader named Grant Reed, a die-hard Ohio State fan. When he found out he had cancer, Grant decided to rename the disease Michigan, after his favorite football team's biggest rival. Click here to view the video.

Paper Clips: This award winning and inspiring documentary tells the story of how the students of a small town school started working on a history assignment that snowballed into a unique and touching Holocaust memorial which gained world-wide attention. Available in most public libraries. Click here to view movie trailer.

PBL--Geometric Sculpture: Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School teachers, Jerrod Staack, Kevin Rohne, Chelsie Meyer, Kristie Kuhse, and Shane Erlandson use a Project Based Learning approach to meet over 45 standards in the areas of Math, FCS, Art, and GTT. Check out this Geometric Sculpture Project that ends with middle school students leaving their legacy for future generations to come. Click here to view video.

Schools That Change Communities (Crellin Elementary segment): Click here to go to website for more information. Video can be borrowed from us.

Stand Up 2 Cancer: Click here to view video (unedited).

The Line: Waiting In The Food Line. Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes II, Reports On Those Who Need Help To Get Groceries. With unemployment rising, there has been a sudden leap in the number of people on emergency food assistance. And in Ohio, some of the food lines look as if they've been taken from the pages of the Great Depression. Click here to view video.

The Memory Project: The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which art students create portraits for children and teens around the world who have been neglected, orphaned, or disadvantaged. Click here to view video.

Third Graders on Ending Hunger (Austin, TX)
Third graders at Elsa Elementary in Austin, Texas, talk about their Semester of Service, an extended service-learning framework that combines classroom learning to address a meaningful community issue. Funded through a grant from Sodexo Foundation and YSA, the students spent the school year studying and taking action to address the issue of childhood hunger in their community. Click here to view video.

Unravel Pediatric Cancer
Unravel is a nonprofit organization working to spread knowledge about the grim realities of pediatric cancer and the devastating impact from the lack of funding. We supply the information, tools and support to individuals and communities that want to help create change– because good people want to do good things but sometimes they need help getting started. All monies raised by and for Unravel will go directly to the fight against pediatric cancer.
In addition, Unravel partners with other nonprofits to strengthen our efforts. We do all of this with one goal in mind; we will unravel pediatric cancer. Click here to view video.

When Passion Meets Vision--The Ryan Hreljac Story: Ryan Hreljac was in kindergarten when he learned that children in a Ugandan village had to walk many kilometers every day just for fresh drinking water. Dismayed, he set out to do enough chores to raise the $70 he figured it would take to drill a well for the village. Click here to view video.

School/Project Videos

Chloe Teaches the Diamond
Andy Young, 1st and 2nd grade teacher at Navajo Elementary School (Albuquerque Public Schools, NM) explored the topic of providing additional games for students to play. An authentic product of the project were student-produced videos that teach how to make the string figure 'The Diamond', also called the 'The Laia Flower'.

Designing The Future
Students, educators, and community members of the Ridgemont Local Schools used the construction of a new PreK-12 school to work, dream, hope, plan, and train as an opportunity to "design the future" together. In 2015-2016, after four years of research and professional development, Ridgemont opened a state-of-the-art facility that, more importantly, supports teaching and learning that is focused on the district's goals of collaboration, service-learning/project based learning, and a learning environment for kids that is "irresistible." Click here to view the video, "Designing the Future."

Fill the "Bear" Cupboard
Hasting Middle School created the "Fill the Bear Cupboard" project to learn about the issue of hunger and raise more than 4,100 pounds of food for Mid-Ohio Foodbank. Click here to view video.

Habitat Project Preparation Animoto
Barrington Elementary School Informal students and teachers created a service-learning project to consider the human habitat and research why some people's basic needs are not met. Click here to view video.

Habitat Project Reflection Animoto
Barrington teachers engaged their students in significant reflection as a part of their annual Habitat Project. Click here to view video.

Hastings et Haïti . . . La Joie de Jouer / The Power of Play
Is play important? Why? 8th grade French students at Hastings Middle School asked themselves and others these questions while working on a service learning project to raise awareness about the power of play. In discovering more about the Francophone country of Haiti and about the difficulties that impede play opportunities in poverty-stricken countries like Haiti, they were able to get a glimpse into what life might really be like in a world where play opportunities are limited. View Period 4 video. View Period 8 video.

Imagine A World
Ridgemont Middle School

Tracking the Iditarod . . . A Cross-Age Partnership
High school students with multiple disabilities studied the Iditarod Race and partnered with first grade students to follow the race. Students worked together to learn a lot of academic content while building significant relationships with each other. View video.

We Love Our Home: This Animoto was created by Kendra Henderson, La Luz Early Childhood Center located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The video documents the service-Learning project Kendra and her students created to study about an positively impact their environment "with their own two hands." View video.

Zuni Pueblo (NM) June 2013
The Zuni Pueblo is in a scenic valley, surrounded by mesas, located about 150 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Zuni Public Schools staff participated in a Partnerships Make A Difference/University of New Mexico training in June 2013. Click here to see Zuni training video.

ISSUE RELATED VIDEOS

Cancer

Beating Childhood Cancer--Ryan Rings His Bell
Cells Gone Wild
On the Road: One of Sport's Most Bitter Rivalries Helps Boy Beat Cancer
Stand Up 2

Environment

Media Saves the Beach

Hunger

Eliminating Food Deserts in America
The Line
Third Graders on Ending Hunger

Natural Disasters

Hurricane Harvey: The Aftermath

Safe Drinking Water

When Passion Meets Vision: The Ryan Hreljac Story

Tolerance/Prejudice

Paper Clips