FLEx Examples

Physical education students practiced being community builders by inviting their neighbors over to play games they designed, practiced, and prepared in advance.

A varsity basketball team serves the community by coaching young players in their basketball skill development.

Students worked towards naming, constructing, and deconstructing narratives of settler-colonialism by exploring, celebrating, listening to and learning from Indigenous perspectives.

Students learn about women in homelessness and listen to stories of women at a shelter. They serve at the shelter by sorting donations, reorganizing for better systems, and identifying information to communicate to donors and other future systems.

Algebra II students learned about payday lending practices and their associated interest rates. Students then took action by advocating for people at high risk of predatory lending and sharing their findings so others can make informed decisions.

Students assisted in the restoration of a Habitat for Humanity home by analyzing flooring options, measuring rooms, and considering how to make sound financial decisions.

In their study of the human body, students learned about organ donation and designed posters to bring awareness.

Students interview shut-ins and complete narrative writing around the stories of the elderly. These students develop relationships with the shut-ins and spend time reading books and playing games together over multiple visits.

Students work to be positive forces in the school community to improve needs.

Students put together bags that would bring comfort to children in foster care.

Students prepare resumés that reflect who they are and engage in the interview process with industry professionals in a nurturing environment.

Students were reminded of the power of learning from and remembering the past. Students learned about and honored the generation that experienced WWII.

Students research, create questions, and interact with civic leaders who live out their Christian faith in the public sphere. In so doing, students practiced listening with empathy and communicating graciously when topics can be divisive.

Physics students use relevant principles to create replacement parts using 3D printing.

US History students interview a family member or friend about a particular moment or theme in American history. With the story shared to them, students research the American history event and rewrite the interviewee's story within the broader story of US history.

Students identified injustices in their communities, empathized with those recieving the injustice, and wrote letters to politicians to help bring about change.

After recognizing the social ladders in the book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and the social ladders in our communities, students set out to interact with the folks normally associated with the bottom of our ladder.

Seventh grade students identify a real need they would like to see changed in the world and write letters to an appropriate audience that can affect the change positively.

Fifth grade students put together a birthday in a box for a young girl in Northern Canada.

To help military families and tourists in Alaska, students designed brochures, guide books, and posters that communicate important information about each season.

Students used their fraction skills to bake goodies, which they in turn blessed others with.

As students develop an understanding and awareness of injustices, fourth graders build a relationship with a First Nations storyteller.

Fourth Grade students learn about homelessness and make work of putting together care backpacks for the patrons of the Lighthouse Mission.

Students cared for the people of Liberia by raising money to buy a goat herd for them.

Students visited a food bank farm, harvested squash, and planted seeds.

While learning about a man who was a light in their community, third grade students had the opportunity to promote, encourage, and serve participants during a 5 kilometer run.

We wanted to be a part of God’s restorative story by encouraging a love of reading and books within our community while at the same time raising money to help others.

With the outward focus of bringing joy to others, students see how they can play a part in taking care of the elderly and restoring community through reading and songs.

Two third grade classes from Iran and USA met and communicated over video. Students created postcards and sent them to third graders in Iran.

Students were empowered to use their peculiar treasures to design, create and perform a musical. In addition, students used information obtained from surveys of their grandparents to add to their musical.

Kindergarten students recognized that both plants and themselves need things to grow. The students planted flowers and gave them to someone, along with a note, thanking them for helping them grow in their faith.

Fifth grade students learn of an orphanage in Mexico and desire to build connections with the kids at the orphanage. Students correspond with peers in Mexico and send encouraging words.

Fifth grade students captured and preserved the memories of the elderly by interviewing them and writing their stories.

Music is used to have deeper meaning and impact when a 6th grade choir class selects a song to perform for a community member/former teacher undergoing cancer treatments.

Students sorted dental supplies and delivered them to a food bank.

First grade students worked to fill a real need for students who do not have enough to eat on the weekends. Students packed bags of food and created an infomercial to spread the word about the organization they partnered with.

In a practice of selflessness, first grade students showed God's love to the neighborhood community near the school with snack bags and encouraging messages.

Students identified conflicts in their community and then worked towards ways to bring resolution. They specifically focused on the conflicts of poverty and homelessness.

Students consider ways they might be able to seek justice after recognizing and gaining and understanding of the challenges in the US Criminal Justice system.