5 Facts about Outdoor Adventure Camps for Students

The life becomes monotonous and boring with heavy tasks which the individuals do on daily basis. So, they need to take the break. In the school or college curriculum there have been trends to take the students for outdoor camps so that they come out of boring life, learn practical lessons of life and refresh themselves for the further intensive studies. This article describes about various facts related to outdoor camps for students and its associated benefits for them as well as the society as a whole.

Types of camps
Various types of camps are arranged for the students in order to increase the learning abilities. These may be adventure camps, summer camps or canoe camp. These camps depend on the season, weather and location.

Who can participate?
The students of all the classes and categories can participate in outdoor adventure camp. The activities of the adventure camps defer in complexities according to age group. So, the student of all primary schools, high schools or senior schools can participate in it. In most of the cases of the camps for boys are different, but in some camps both the boys and girls participate in the same camp.

Activities of Adventure Camps
The students are taught to erecting make-shift houses or tents for their staying for a few days. In case of outdoor summer camp etc., the student have to involve themselves in various games and other activities which test their courage and confidence level. These activities, they don't carry out in normal course of studies.

Lessons Learn
The students involve in various game and activities that teach them learning by doing. When many students are divided in to groups and they face competition with each other group, the lessons of team building, planning, risk management, organizing and controlling automatically develops in them. Apart from it, the students learn practical lessons of live far away from their parents or near and dear ones, tricks of survival in difficult terrain and many others. In brief, the camps are good medium of outdoor education.

Close Connection with Nature
In educational intuitions of modern days, the students are mostly confined indoors with advanced amenities available to them. They are in fact deprived various fruitful items of nature created for human beings. But, the camps (as in boys canoe camp) are arranged in a natural environment where the students get the glimpse of various natural items such as forests, lakes, rivers etc. and they come to know about the nature with close proximity. This causes their automatic learning to preserve the nature and prevent it from any damage whatsoever.

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