Doing Your Part: Serving Your Community

by Kelly Rodgers

Teach students about ways they can contribute to their communities and engage them in civic discourse about the importance of volunteering and helping others. Colorful images, supporting text, a glossary, table of contents, and index all work together to engage readers and help them better understand the social studies content. This informative, colorful book uses primary sources to captivate readers as they learn social studies topics.

32 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2014

About the author

Kelly Rodgers is intrigued and delighted by cities. Since moving to Portland, Oregon in 1995, she has worked in a variety of areas to support the development of a sustainable city - neighborhood planning, green infrastructure, community design, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation. In other words, she has been working to create cities where people know their neighbors, where resources are used efficiently, where people don't have to get in cars to meet their basic needs, and where it's possible to work collaboratively on creative energy, food, and housing solutions.

Kelly currently works as the Program Manager for the Sustainable Transportation Council, which is developing an evaluation tool and rating system for transportation plans and projects called STARS.

Reviews

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Upbeat junior nonfiction book with lots of photos and a magazine-like layout that encourages volunteerism and being a responsible citizen. Projects that help people, animals, and the environment are all highlighted.