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Below are examples of some reflection activities. Be creative and come up with your own!
Linguistic Reflection Activities
- Keep an ongoing journal, either reflecting on your own about your service experiences, or responding to assigned questions and topics.
- Compose an essay based on the first day of your service job.
- Write a reflection paper that combines your service experience with what you are learning in class.
- Prepare a research paper on an issue that arises from your service experience.
- Create a resume explaining the job skills you attained while volunteering.
- Write a job description for the service position you held.
- Compose a letter to your site supervisor offering suggestions for working with future youth volunteers.
- Write an article for the school or community newspaper highlighting your accomplishments.
- Find a newspaper article about the issue your agency works to address.
- Write a poem that reflects your volunteer experience.
- Tell your class about the goals for the place where you work.
Logical/Mathematical Reflection Activities
- Identify a problem you see at your work site and devise a solution.
- Connect your service learning experience to a larger issue at the state or national level. Where does your service fit in?
- Write about any measurements, statistics, classifications or numbers that play a role in the work done at your agency.
- Construct a detailed timeline of the service experience.
- Create a hypothesis based on your experience. Explain how you would test the hypothesis.
- Explain what scientific knowledge would help you in your placement and why. Devise a plan for getting such knowledge.
Bodily/Kinesthetic Reflection Activities
- In three minutes or less, express the heart of your volunteer experience to the class without using words.
- Create and perform a skit about what happened at your site.
- Act out a possible television commercial that would encourage people to use the services your agency offers.
- Put on a skit for an all-school assembly that shows the younger students what it is like to do service work.
- Create and perform a dance that reflects your experience with service work.
Spatial Reflection Activities
- Draw the place where you volunteer and tell the class about your drawing.
- Draw your school and the place where you volunteer and what is in between; tell the class about your drawing.
- Create a display about the issue that your agency works on; display it at the agency and/or at school.
- Make a collage that shows something about your placement or how you feel about your work there.
- Make a video commercial that encourages people to volunteer at your site.
- Record a TV commercial that you find offensive as a result of your work. Show it to the class and talk about it.
- Bring in a clip from a movie that expresses something you have experienced at your service work. Show it to the class and tell about it.
- Create a video that reflects what you and your classmates have accomplished through this service learning project.
- Document the whole service learning project using pictures, video, essays, and displays.
- Use charts or maps to help your classmates understand the work your agency does.
Musical Reflection Activities
- Compose a song that captures your service experience. Either perform or record the song for your class.
- Bring in a song that reflects your service experience. Play it for the class and tell why you chose it.
- Notice sounds and songs while you're working. What are the sounds around you, what songs are people singing or humming? Create a presentation based on those sounds and songs.
- Bring in different objects that can make sounds. Have groups create rhythms that express their service experience. Put the rhythms together to make a composition.
- Bring in music without words. Work in groups or as a class to create words from the service experience that match the music.
Interpersonal Reflection Activities
- Have a small group discussion about your experience doing service work.
- Share with one other person what you felt like before, during and after the volunteer work.
- Consider the quote, "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" (William Shedd). Discuss how this quote relates to your volunteer work.
- Role-play something that happened at your volunteer job that you did not know how to handle. Have your classmates role play appropriate and inappropriate responses to this situation.
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