Making Sense Summer Camp Resources

 

The history behind our summer camp curriculum...

 

 

What the clubs look like...

Year One:

• Are You Average? Club -- This club helps identify the "normal camper" as determined by the statistics of mean, median, and mode. Campers are introduced to data collection, representation, and analysis procedures.

 

• Engineering Team Club -- This club puts students’ creativity and visualizing to the test! Students are given the opportunity to construct boxes from nets (a two-dimensional figure that folds into a three-dimensional shape) in many hands-on activities.

 

• Fraction Art Club -- This club creatively infuses fractions into art. Students first analyze art concepts, and then develop their own works of art by utilizing fractions.

 

• Is it Fair? Club -- This club focuses on concepts about probability, as well data collection. Students engage with games involving coins, dice, and spinners.

 

• Short Story Writing Club -- This club centers on the basics of story structure and literary elements, as a precursor to the students writing and presenting their own short story.

 

• Story Telling Club -- This club brings student storytelling to life. Students first learn about oral presentation skills and then create and perform a tall tale for their peers.

 

• Acting Club -- This club allows students the opportunity to write, stage, and act out a play for their peers.

 

• Camp Newspaper Club -- This club incorporates writing newspaper articles about summer camp highlights with learning about the writing process.

 

Year Two:

• Commissary Conundrum Club -- Campers are introduced to many jobs held at the commissary. Throughout the club, campers will be working on many literacy and mathematical skills while engaging in a number of different hands-on activities.

 

• Winter Wonderland Club -- Campers pretend that a huge snowstorm is going to hit the camp this week. As the snowstorm hits, campers take part in a number of hands-on activities to apply their literacy and math skills.

 

• Game Show Extravaganza Club -- Campers take part in a week of games and activities based upon famous game shows. These games will allow club members to work on their literacy and math skills while having fun and collaborating with others.

 

• Down on the Farm Club -- Campers head to the "farm" for a week full of fun activities associated with different aspects of farming. By working together, club members use their literacy and math skills to complete a number of hands-on problems, including how to churn butter!

 

• Cross Country Trip Club -- Campers head out on a cross-country trip. During the week, they use their imagination to travel to the great national park, Mount Rushmore. However, to get there, they will need to use their literacy and math skills to complete a number of fun hands-on activities.

 

• Culinary Cooking Shows Club -- Campers take part in a week of activities surrounding the theme of a cooking show. These activities promote campers working together to design a new restaurant, prepare appetizers, main dishes, and desserts; and finally, display their creations during a culminating celebration.

 

• Summer Olympics Club -- Campers spend the week participating in many activities associated with the Olympics. Each day campers will be utilizing their literacy and math skills as they compete in both classic track and field events as well as many modern day sports challenges.

 

• Going to the Carnival Club -- Going to the carnival is always a fun event! Campers will have the opportunity to go to the carnival and use their literacy and math skills to play games and work together to solve problems.

For more information on Making Sense Summer Camp Resources, please contact Julie Creeden, Writing Coordinator.