Edutopia comes through with some quality coverage on the new effort in P.E. From yoga to rock walls, students are finding that exercise and fitness do not live exclusively in traditional team sports and weightlifting. I came away with several class exercise actvitities for my sixth graders. I heard about “state changes” in a seminar in college, and exercise is a perfect application of this principle. Basically, if a student stays in one static state for too long, his attention will decrease as well as his ability to construct understanding. The exercises mentioned in the video are great ways to give students state changes that refresh their blood streams with oxygen and refresh their brains with new challenges.
As a bonus, the bottom of the page contains links to some other great resources for classroom exercise and physical activity.
Update: Edutopia’s flash video code is not playing nice with Wordpress. Sorry for the inconvenience and sheer lack of flashiness in this post.
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