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Using Classroom Physical Activity to Help Students with Mental Health and Anxiety

Using Classroom Physical Activity to Help Students with Mental Health and Anxiety

You hear tear-jerking stories of your students’ home lives all the time. One is being raised by grandparents who are barely healthy enough to walk because they have no health insurance. Another slept on the floor with her four younger siblings last night. Two had no dinner last night, so their last full, healthy meal [...]

By Heather Erwin|2019-10-10T17:36:05+00:00April 19th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Classroom Movement: How to Increase Activity Throughout the School Day

Classroom Movement: How to Increase Activity Throughout the School Day

It is recommended that school-aged children and adolescents participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. For instance, at the intensity of a brisk walk or more. In order to achieve health-benefits, they should do this each day. The Challenge Schools have been tasked with contributing at least 30 minutes of that recommendation [...]

By Jaimie McMullen|2019-05-21T18:38:57+00:00April 3rd, 2019|Categories: Active Classroom Management, Classroom Activities|0 Comments

Winter Wakeup Call: How to Motivate Students When It’s Cold Outside

Winter Wakeup Call: How to Motivate Students When It’s Cold Outside

January and February have brought their fair share of snow days and illnesses to my classroom in Kentucky! My, otherwise, normally peppy students are starting to feel the effects of missed days, too many inside recesses, sickness, and early sunsets. The yawns start early in the day and continue throughout the afternoon. Here are some ways I’m trying to get over our winter weather behavior slump!

By Jessica Tice|2019-04-23T18:04:50+00:00February 18th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities|0 Comments

How Classroom Activity Improves Behavior and Test Scores

How Classroom Activity Improves Behavior and Test Scores

The first question I am asked when I present information on active seating and active classrooms is: Does it work? After teaching in a kinesthetic classroom and working at a school with four active classrooms, the answer is yes. In our school, it has shown to improve student behavior, grades, and test scores while keeping kids moving and happy.

By David Wilkie|2019-10-21T18:37:29+00:00February 5th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Increase Test Scores with Classroom Movement Cues

Increase Test Scores with Classroom Movement Cues

Earlier this school year, my fifth-grade students spent the day learning about colonial America while also moving their bodies and engaging their minds. We used exercises to connect key vocabulary terms with specific movements. What an effective method to get them to remember the content! This was a great way to get students up and moving for thirty minutes!

By Jessica Tice|2019-10-21T18:15:14+00:00January 8th, 2019|Categories: Classroom Activities|0 Comments

Let’s Reverse Our Thinking On Classroom Activity

Let’s Reverse Our Thinking On Classroom Activity

Let’s reverse our thinking. Instead of stressing about providing more, more, more for your students, how about if we think about it from a more straightforward approach? What if our goal is to have them sit still less?

By Heather Erwin|2019-05-21T19:12:44+00:00December 18th, 2018|Categories: Active Classroom Management, Classroom Activities, Teaching|0 Comments

Increase Activity in School with a Movement Maze

Increase activity in school with a Movement Maze; a guided course outside of our classrooms that leads our students through a variety of purposeful movement. Students take a short break, utilize muscle groups, and re-enter the classroom ready to learn!

By Quinn Hofmann and Emily Constable|2020-10-14T13:49:50+00:00November 19th, 2018|Categories: Classroom Activities|4 Comments

Classroom Fitness: Challenge Students with Fitness Fridays

Classroom Fitness: Challenge Students with Fitness Fridays

Friday classroom fitness challenges are a great and quick way to get my students moving! On Fridays, I introduce a new exercise and we practice it a few times throughout the day. Towards the end of the day we see who can do that exercise the most amount of times or hold it for the greatest length of time.

By Jessica Tice|2018-10-11T13:04:53+00:00October 10th, 2018|Categories: Classroom Activities|0 Comments

Cooperative Games to Boost Activity in the Classroom

Cooperative Games to Boost Activity in the Classroom

Students cooperating with each other has become an even a bigger push in education over the last couple of years. It is also a great way to increase physical activity in the classroom. What teachers need to realize is that most students do not know how to work together. As recess has diminished over time, [...]

By David Wilkie|2019-04-25T13:09:21+00:00October 1st, 2018|Categories: Classroom Activities|0 Comments