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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Summer Camp"”.
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A topographical survey of the Lansing Boy scouts' summer camp
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1947
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The Christian Summer Camp as a Location for Queer Theoretical Inquiry
… informed analysis of the Christian summer camp environment, a minimally-researched recreational environment, relying in particular on Foucault’s understanding of surveillance and discourse, Butler’s concepts of performativity and intelligibility, Dyer’s conceptualization of queer …
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Does Religion Help with Nature Exposure? Faith as a Moderator During Summer Camp
… behaviors, which has been noted for camp experiences (Garst et al., 2016). In summer camps, PYD may be enhanced by outdoor experiences and exposure to nature, both of which are linked with cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual changes including recovery from fatigue, facilitating …
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Does Religion Help with Nature Exposure? Faith as a Moderator During Summer Camp
… behaviors, which has been noted for camp experiences (Garst et al., 2016). In summer camps, PYD may be enhanced by outdoor experiences and exposure to nature, both of which are linked with cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual changes including recovery from fatigue, facilitating …
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Exploring Food Waste at a Residential Youth Summer Camp: A Mixed-Methods Approach
… infancy, particularly as it relates to youth. Summer camps offer a unique setting for food-based education, with the opportunity to reach large numbers of youth. This MS thesis describes a study that used a mixed-methods research approach to explore three objectives: 1) assess food waste in a …
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Fostering Self-Esteem in Adolescent with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Group Art Therapy in Summer Camp
… group will be held concurrently with a week long summer camp the adolescent attends. The grant hypothesizes that a one week group art therapy intervention with adolescents in a summer camp setting will improve their self-esteem.</p>
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Summer Camp for Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Context for Enhancing Social Competence
… of global impairment (Morris et al., 2020). Summer camp programs have been overlooked as an opportunity for social growth and development. Evidence suggests that specialized summer camp with social skills training may have positive outcomes on social competence development in adolescents with …
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Narratives of the Leadership Development of Adults Who Served as Summer Camp Staff in the Mennonite Setting : a Multiple Case Study
… to describe how the collaborative environment of summer camp helped shape emerging adults as leaders. The summer camp setting is inherently collaborative and, therefore, can inform and develop leaders for future collaborative settings. The research question in focus for this study was, How do …
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A Study of Teaching Under the Weather: The Influence of Weather on Participant Mood and Engagement During an Informal Summer Camp Program.
… they were at the Toledo Zoo Junior Zoo Keeper Summer Camp Program, creating a total of five surveys per participant. The data were analyzed via a series of sequenced ANOVA tests, known as a MANOVA, which compared the students across the 5 days, week-to-week and good-to-bad-weather days. There …
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Camp Geronimo: Evaluating the Influence of an Animal Assisted Intervention Based Summer Camp on Social Participation in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
… this project<em> </em>was to evaluate the Barn’s Camp Geronimo, a six-week long summer camp program, and its impact on the social participation of participants using the <em>Home & Community Social Behavior Scales </em>(HCSBS). The study findings showed positive results, with statistically …
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An examination of the practice of culturally responsive evaluation: a case study of the Girls Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (G.A.M.E.S.) summer camp at the University of Illinois
In recent decades, there has been an expansion of evaluation approaches that seek to respond to the cultural context of the program that is being evaluated. Of these, culturally responsive evaluation is the most well-known evaluation approach. The purpose of culturally responsive evaluation is to …
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Diabetes Camp
Every summer Camp Hopewell in Oxford, Mississippi hosts its annual summer camps. Over the course of a week, kids between the ages of seven and fifteen run, play, hike, and canoe. It's the pretty standard summer camp fair, but there is something that makes a week at Camp Hopewell different. Every …
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Jewish Summer Camps in the United States and Canada, 1900-1969
… attention to the potentialities of the Jewish summer camp as an effective ally in meeting the challenges to our youth of Jewish identification, knowledge, and commitment.
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Urban Children's Experience of a Natural Place Outside of Denver
… children had experienced a natural place at a summer camp outside of the city. The children created photo-story maps of the special places in their lives, which I incorporated into follow-up photo-elicitation interviews, and characterized their experience through a qualitative content analysis. …
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Using 3D Printing as an Instructional Tool to Improve Spatial Ability
… was to investigate the effects of a three- week summer camp featuring 3D design and printing activities on students’ spatial abilities. The study also investigated whether attendees’ gender and grade level play a role in the effects of the summer camp. The main research question for the study …
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A place for a children's camp
The project is a summer camp where children can learn about nature. The thesis involves the placement of buildings in a natural setting. The challenge is to design and locate the buildings so that they may help explain the site and enable children to understand it. The thesis is more than finding a …
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How teens learn to work together: collaborative processes of development at camp
… on their work within groups at a residential summer camp. Grounded theory methods were used to provide preliminary knowledge of how teenagers learn teamwork through interactions with their peers. Three conscious processes were identified: assimilating peers’ actions, co-constructing learning …
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Swinging towards intentionality: Exploring the process of life skills development in seasonal camp staff at a sport-based PYD camp using creative non-fictions
… the experiences and outcomes associated with summer camp staff (Botting et al., 2021; Kendellen et al., 2016; Povilaitis & Tamminen, 2018). However, studies focusing specifically within the context of day camp settings remain underrepresented. Moreover, there have been calls to understand the …
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