Ms. Bakers 1st graders ZUMBA Brain Break! SDGVA students are challenging themselves to take brain breaks like ZUMBA and keep their bodies engaged in academic learning! Well capture more brain breaks along the way this week! (See rationale below) Research: HealthTeacher, Inc. believes that schools remain the most consistent venue for children to engage in physical activity. The challenge is to overcome the “all or nothing” mindset that the 60 minutes of daily physical activity must happen all at once. As Katz (2010) suggests, even incremental levels of physical activity can yield tremendous benefits in children’s lives. In response to this challenge, HealthTeacher, Inc. launched an innovative new product called GoNoodle. GoNoodle is a suite of K-5 interactive brain breaks that improve student engagement and classroom culture with brief bouts of desk-side movement. Each of the brain breaks take 3 to 5 minutes of class-time; just enough time for teachers to get their students’ blood flowing and minds re-engaged, but without taking away from valuable instruction time. According to John Ratey, movement stimulates brain activity, “What’s happening in the body is [students’] heart rates increasing and blood flow is changing, and they’re actually activating the brain differently than when they’re sitting down.”
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:30:41 +0000
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