Summer Camps & Benefits: Summer Holidays are going to start & children as well as parents, all are making plans for children’s summer vacations. For children, it’s time for full fun, enjoyment & entertainment but for parents, this is the time they think how they can make summer holidays more fruitful for their kids so they can learn & develop new skills & can enjoy as well. For all these questions Summer Camps are the best option for children. Importance of Summer Camp: Summer Camps play an important role in growth & learning of children. School going Kids have a fixed routine & environment that’s why children need some time for outing & to understand & learn the other things which can’t be learned in the Classroom or at Home. Summer Camps are great places which help Children to learn & develop lots of new things like Self-confidence, Friendship, Independent living, Social Skills & develop many more new skills. Summer Camp Benefits: Camp helps to develop a new interest in Kids: Children face one common problem regarding their interest is that all schools don’t provide facility as per their interest e.g. if a child is interested in Archery but the school doesn’t have that facility in this scenario summer camps are great options. There are summer camps which provide different sports & interest based facility for children & by joining summer camp which provide facility as per Kid’s interest Kids can learn & upgrade their skills as per their interest. Camp helps Kids to change perception: Maximum students attend the same school year after year with the same peers, which leads to developing a particular perception & labeling. A child may become quite, chatterbox, studious etc. But in reality when he/she joins a camp gets a new environment, people or space he/she become more lively & excited. When Kids visit camps they meet new people, visit new places their perception will breakout & their way of looking things will change. Camp helps in developing & acquiring new skills: Summer Camp helps children to acquire & master new skills even if the school offers different activities, camp helps to master your skills. The bigger benefit of camps is that children are free to learn new skills & can take the risk to learn new things as there is not any burden of school & home. Camps help to go deeper to learn new skills like coding, sports or any other activity which children want to master. Camp helps kids to open up & build friendship: Summer Camps helps children to interact with new kids which helps them to open up & develop a new friendship. In camps, Kids meet different types of students, interact with them, share their thoughts & connect with likeminded Kids & develop a new friendship. This will help kids in sharing their thoughts, become expressive and understand the value of friendship. Camp helps Kids to be more physically & mentally active: In the present time of technology, children are becoming lazier & are not so physically active. After school kids stick to computers & mobile which is the major reason for Kids to become lazy. Summer Camps help Kids to become more physically & mentally active with different sports & activities. Parents & students can choose different camps as per their need & choices as in summer there are all types of camps are available. Camp develops Independence and Empowerment in Kids: Summer Camp helps children to make them Independent & empower them with many other qualities. When attending a camp children have to manage all things independently & have to take all decisions by themselves. This independence makes them more responsible & independent as all the things they do will depend on their own decisions. Summer Camp Develop resiliency and confidence: Camp develop resiliency in children. In a camp, Kids have to participate in different activities which develop resiliency & make children learn that it’s okay to fail & help kids to understand their limits & how they can improve & fix thing in which they lack. Different activities in a camp also help children to boost their confidence. Camp helps Kids in developing & enhancing their creativity: Summer Camp helps children to identify & develop their creativity. In school, Kids doesn’t get enough time to explore their hobbies & creativity. Summer vacations are a great time for kids to explore new hobbies & enhance their creativity. E.g. Some kids want to learn Painting, Sketching, Music or want to improve some other creativity. For all these summer vacation & camps are the best solutions for children without hampering studies. Camp enhances Social Skills of Kids. Children when staying away from home in a camp with friends & other people this gathering develop very good social skills in kids. Children in camp learn to share, caring, appreciation & improve their EQ (Emotional Quotient). With EQ, kids learn how to manage emotions, connect with other people, empathize, relate & other social skills. Connect with Nature: In today’s scenario, people are living in cities which don’t have many green areas & natural surroundings. Due to the lack of natural surrounding kids don’t understand the value & importance of nature & natural resources in their life. Summer Camps helps kids to understand nature more closely. Some camps organize Trekking, River Rafting, Hill Station visit & many more activities & sports which helps Kids to understand nature& environment. Sports & activities also develop an understanding of how nature works & how kids can contribute to saving nature. Entertainment, Enjoyment & Fun: Summer Camps are not only learning centre to learn new skills, but camps are also the venue where children enjoy, entertain & do lots of fun. Summer Camps have lots of things to do & enjoy. Those parents who are planning to send their Kids to camp we suggest them to prepare their kids to get the maximum benefit of the camp.
Educational Games, they are the games having the main agenda Learning With Fun. They are developed to learn something in an educational environment, and here learning refers to the study of any subject, understanding of any historical event or some scientific concept or problem-solving and much more by some innovative games. It is an interactive way of teaching where the teacher interacts more with the student. History and Present Day Educational Games:- Educational games are of many types including cards, boards and video games. Not only in present time but in earlier time also they were in trend for example, in earlier times, chess was played by the kings and warriors to study the war strategies and after that, the trend continued and then majorly followed in the 1900s and now in 2000s also this trend is everlasting. Let’s discuss a few games to understand scenario of history and present-day educational games to make us understand more about this trend- (1) Monopoly:- Monopoly is a board game first introduced in 1935 and now on its 70th anniversary, the latest version of it was introduced, Here And Now Electronic Banking Edition, this game is based on luck and strategies, the aim of the player is that to capture as many personal properties as he can and the game ends when one or more players go bankrupt. (2) Trump Cards:- Trump cards are a very funny method of learning history or any other subject, previously played by people to show their royalty or just for passing the time but now a day’s used as educational games also for making learning fun for kids. (3) Oregon Trail:- It was a game introduced in the Year 1974 and became very popular and was mainly found in computer labs in the 1970s and the 1980s. The game was that students lead an oxen-pulled wagon from Missouri to Oregon in pioneer days of the 1800s. It conveyed an American history lesson with an amazing gaming experience. (4) Snakes and Ladders:- Snakes and ladders were produced in England in the 1800s and are still in trend among small kids helping in learning counting and addition and a game similar to this CHUTES AND LADDERS was introduced in 1900s which teaches morals based on, children rewarded for good deeds and were punished for bad deeds. (5) Dr. Brain:- Dr. Brain is a series of educational games, having puzzles to level up in the game. It was introduced in 1990s; it improved children’s thinking abilities by being a brain devoting application. So, these were some games introduced in past and in present, there are many games which were introduced in past but are still being recommended for the kids education, hence now as you can see there has been a relation of us with the educational gaming industry since past and it’ll surely continue till the future also as gaming is a great effort of making a human learn something fast with enjoyment as it was well said by Friedrich Schiller in one of his play that ‘Humans Are Fully Humans When They Play’ and gave the origin to a classical study of human learning with gaming.