How much science jargon can kids remember in 3 weeks

Children who do not have food security are not in the right mind set to learn, but there are programs that take care of that during the school year. As a result, many children suffer from food insecurity over the summer while they are not in school. To help solve a part of this program, the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC) provides these children with a summer camp that last 3 weeks during the weekdays from 9 am to 1pm. Each day of the camp brings a new activity and these activities follow a weekly theme. This year, the first week’s theme was science, the second week theme was super heroes and the final week had a cooking theme. During the period of this summer camp, I surveyed the children to see how much they liked each subject. I also asked them how much science they saw or recognized in each theme. The objective of each survey is to see if the children would retain scientific information after the summer camp, particularly, their science vocabulary, and to see if they can recognize science phenomenon in their everyday lives.This poster will discuss the findings and lessons learned for this past summer camp in an attempt to help us improve the children’s interest in science.The results of the surveys show some promising data for this first attempt.