Camp Week 06: Health / Apply Self Regulation and Accept Feedback
Campers will learn about how lifestyle affects our health and its notable impact on the American population. They will be challenged to examine how their own community’s design and built environment affects their health and to develop solutions that encourage better health outcomes for the future.
Your campers will...
Learn about environmental health, community and population health
Ideate solution to some of these challenges and craft a pitch
Learn what is needed to get projects off the ground and present their implementation plan
At BAM Virtual Camps, we aim to encourage kids to explore the challenges present and future of public health in their community and how they can turn those challenges into opportunities. We are aware of the limitations of learning through technology as opposed to the classroom. That’s why we get kids growing gardens because they can then observe directly how systems really work and the BAM coaches help them connect the dots. Our challenges are designed to balance the online learning environment by getting your kid’s hands dirty!
We do this through individual and group challenges that encourage them to ask deeper questions and get closer to objective truth. Be it through judging online resources, speaking directly with community members and subject matter experts, or observing their backyard or neighborhood through a global lens. Armed with this new knowledge, we further challenge kids to develop innovative solutions to these “wicked problems” and how they can affect change in their community by deploying their solutions at a local level. We provide the activities and guidance to inspire them to develop and explore scalable initiatives and solutions.
60% of American adults have at least 1 chronic disease and 40% have 2 or more. The causes of these diseases are largely related to lifestyle issues such as poor nutrition and lack of physical exercise. Chronic health issues are directly influenced by our environment and in order to combat our ailing health we need to redesign our how our communities and built environment are structured.
Topics Covered: Environmental Health, Community Health