Monday
To start the week, the junior campers had a drawing brainstorming session of what they knew about doctors. Seniors campers spoke to their knowledge and made doctor bags/briefcases out of recycled materials. Both groups created body models with which they could incorporate various systems and organs including the brain and nervous system—which the "big kids" dove into further.
=Tuesday
For our doctors, the heart and circulatory system was the focus of Tuesday. They built their own stethoscopes and played heart rate game. This involved doing low intensity versus high intensity activities and then comparing their heart rates/pulses.
Wednesday
On Wednesday, campers learned about the lungs and the respiratory system. Both seniors and juniors created lung models (of different complexities). Then after talking about how the lungs fill up in a way similar to balloons, we held a balloon party—many campers were able to blow them up with their impressive lung capacities!
Thursday
The day we were all waiting for.... life-sized operation!!! After every camper got a chance to remove a silly object from "Archibald." After this, we got to talk more realistically about the way digestion works. Juniors got a chance to place bandaids on Boo-Boo Betty, dig into a sensory experience with intestine spaghetti, and care for pretend pediatric patients.
Friday
Though our final day of the camp week was a tad rainy (with an unexpected downpour at the end of the day during sprinkler time), the doctors prevailed! The seniors, inspired by Operation wanted to create their own game boards. The juniors came back to their tracings to add as many body parts and tracings as they could remember. There was even time for a quick Magic School Bus education video about the human body to get a bit of rain reprieve.
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