Explore Summer Camps presents an awesome opportunity for your child to widen horizons, make new and lasting friends, and discover new strengths. After all, you wouldn’t be considering camp if you didn’t think it would add substantially to your child’s growth and development. Camp can help your child learn to build a robot, learn to draw, enjoy science and math, or practice reading skills through drama. Actually, Explore Summer Camps will help your child improve a skill in just about any area. The true payoff of camp will be apparent when your child comes home more self-reliant, self-sufficient, and self-confident. What a gift to give to your child!
The learning that takes place at UWF’s Explore Summer Camps is one of a kind; learning about self, community, and the world around us through an authentic experience. What your child learns at school is not your typical “classroom” learning environment. Because this is camp, we want it to be fun. But because we want to challenge your child academically, we have incorporated academic areas by relating the camp’s curriculum to the Sunshine State Standards. For example: technology, math, robotics, science, and art. All the campers will become more engaged when the content is delivered in the social and physical settings of camp, which motivates learning and interest. This is usually not achieved solely in the classroom.
Additionally, many of our camps provide programs that incorporate math, science and technology along with traditional outdoor summer camp activities. In 2005 the American Institute for Research released a study on teaching and learning in camp-like settings. Findings indicated that "students showed significant gains in self-esteem, relationships with peers, problem solving, and motivation to learn."
Positive Social Development:
The development of strong social skills, confidence among peers and independence flourish in the camp setting. Working together with peers, achieving personal goals and sharing responsibilities can transform a shy and cautious child into a positive and self-assured one, often within a very short time. Camp encourages children to interact with each other by having them collaboratively work together with similar interests.
