These elementary and high school teachers in turn take their new training and development to their students during the next academic year. More than 500 middle school science teachers from around the country will be on the UA campus over the summer to learn curriculum and experiments for UA's award-winning Integrated Science program, and another 500 teachers will receive training off campus. These 1,000 teachers will train so that each school day of the academic year, more than 160,000 students across the U.S. and Canada can tune into this video-based instructional program. The UA College of Arts and Sciences brings nearly 1,000 teachers to special offerings each summer, including geography, music, and other disciplinary in-service workshops. More than 100 teachers participate in educational programs about statistics and insurance co-sponsored by UA's Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, courses that will in turn help them teach these topics themselves.
Many activities cater to adults and kids.
More than 100 high school students, teachers, and adults dig and excavate at the Alabama Museum of Natural History's annual archaeological exploration and camp. The museum sponsors a wide range of educational programs ranging from fossil collecting to tubing the Sipsey Swamp. Honors Programs also held numerous camps this year to expose young people to career options and to teach K-12 students how to use the Internet, among other programs. Music camps are also a big draw to the UA campus, as more than 7,500 band, vocal, piano, and other music students converge on campus each summer, said David Durant, the UA School of Music's coordinator of music services. Sports camps attract thousands of youngsters each summer.