School Strategies that Support Physical Activity
Schools, through recess, physical education, and other programs provide opportunities for children to accrue their recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity. What strategies does your school employ to keep students active?
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Sharpen the Saw
Children will never be able to sharpen the saw if we do not allow them to. They need "brain breaks" throughout the day so they can unwind from a hard lesson and re-energize before the next lesson. Without proper break time, students are not at their best.
Ethically Fit
Even a topic as conceptual as "ethics" can become a kinesthetic experience to help students get out of their seats and get the brain-blood flowing. Your students will thank you for thinking of ways to make learning fun and active.
Using Fitness Literacy Lessons Focused on the Whole Child
As with any learning that has staying power, children need firsthand experiences in order to discover why being healthy is important to their overall well-being.
AAHPERD's Let's Move in School Initiative Highlights Physical Activity's Importance
Every child and adolescent needs a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Schools have a wonderful opportunity to help students meet that recommendation.
Active Game-Based Learning
Brain-based learning research tells us that being active in and around rigorous learning can help keep students energized in the learning. There are many ways to integrate activate movement on a regular basis for students, and using video games is another opportunity.
Moving At School: Making It Happen
Kids should move more at school, but educators weren't trained on how to integrate physical activity and movement into the classroom. Nora Howley from the NEA Health Information Network shares resources and lesson plans to get students and staff moving.
Keep Kids Moving and Motivated to Learn
Physical activity in the classroom helps activate the brain, increases positive behavior, reinforces academic concepts, and helps keep kids healthy.
The Movement Continuum
Schools fall somewhere along a movement continuum where, on one end, schools don't believe that physical activity has any major or beneficial role to play in schools and also includes schools that see its only purpose as providing a break from classwork. Can we move further along?
The Common Core of a Whole Child Approach
Molly McCloskey debunks the myth of standards versus support and shares the relationship between the Common Core State Standards and a school improvement approach which ensures each child, in each school, in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged in ASCD's newest free webinar series.
We Aren't the Only Ones Concerned About Movement
In a recent poll, results showed physical activity and movement during the school day as a key concern, second to bullying and other safety concerns.
Best Questions: Integrating Movement
Are we torturing our students by forcing them to sit still? The best teachers get that physical activity must be integrated into the learning experience, not just left for P.E. class or recess or afterschool sports.
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Schools Can Reverse the Sedentary Trend
Because children are in school for about one-half of their waking day for nine months of the year for twelve years, schools are important locations for promoting and providing physical activity.