Snail Investigation: An Educational Project in Rural China

Snail Investigation: An Educational Project in Rural China

RCEF teacher Sun Huimiao discovers her student's curiosity about snails and turns it into an interdisciplinary learning project.

Left-Behind Children & Elderly

Left-Behind Children & Elderly

A service learning project with 120 third and fourth grade students in two village schools.

Hands-On Learning

Hands-On Learning

RCEF students collaborate to build a coop for chickens they learned to raise from chicks as part of a project to learn more about their rural environment.

Sweet (Potato) Home

Sweet (Potato) Home

RCEF students dig up sweet potatoes during an interdisciplinary project to learn about the culture and history of this common local crop.

Yellow River Blues

Yellow River Blues

RCEF students take a field trip to the Yellow River to investigate pollution of water sources in their environment.

Beneath the Parasol Trees

Beneath the Parasol Trees

Teachers share their reflections on the last day of RCEF's 2010 Winter Teacher Conference.

Project Updates

  • Mon, October 10

    Shadow Wings is a book about the friendship between a young boy and a shadow. Chinese author Tong Xixi leads the readers through many adventures in a world where shadows can fly, laugh, and cry. In the end, the boy learns that these shadows are in fact children who where killed by Japanese...

  • Sat, September 10

    This semester, children at Xiaochao Primary School help to manage the school library. They use policies developed by third- and fourth-grade students during a summer service learning project. Before the start of school, rural teachers discussed with the children ways to manage a library. One prob...

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