1. Physical Education in the Classroom
By: Nikki Denning

2. What is Physical Education in the Classroom?
Physical Education in the classroom is a Active Approach to guide academic learning.
Every subject can have some type of physical education connected to it.
Ask yourself do we want our students to Be Active? Or Be Still?
Children need daily physical activity
Minimum of 60 minutes per day

3. Benefits of Movement in Classroom
Enhances
Behavior
Academic performance
Self-esteem
Creativity
Collaboration

4. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

5. Reason to Cooperate Exercise
Helps students be less fidgety
Improving on-task behavior
Exercise facilitates the brains readiness
Increase of oxygen to brain to help ability to learn
Alterations to neurotransmitters
Structural changes in the central nervous system

6. Teaching Strategies
Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic learning are all important because students all learn differently. It is proven that kinesthetic learning gets the brain to flowing and learning to process.
Students need hands on activities and allowed out of their seat to be active.
Teaching Strategies include:
Collaboration
Brain Breaks
Act it out
Change up the Furniture
Using Art
Using Tech

7. Collaboration and Brain Breaks
Allows students to get out of seats in the classroom.
Have activity they can sit or stand in groups to share ideas.
Students get tired of staring straight ahead, let them get up and talk, use gestures, and manipulate objects.
Brain Breaks
Several ask how does this help students sit down, focus, and work?
This strategy helps by
Increases blood flow
Improves mood
Allows mind to constructively deviate from complex tasks

8. Activities for Brain Breaks
Teach a song that goes along with lesson.
Play a ball toss game that involves trivia of the class lesson.
Jumping jacks can lead to a math activity of breathing rates to measure and graph.
Students can take turns doing stretches, to get their blood flowing.
My favorite brain break activity is GoNoodle, which has several way to get students engage and activity into learning.

9. Act It Out and Changing Seating
Instead of writing about what they learned, see if they can act it out.
In groups or by their selves
Short performance of the topic
Changing Seating
Switch up the arrangement of the students tables, to let them sit in different areas to move around the class.
Traditional furniture
Standing desks
Yoga balls
Beanbag chairs

10. Using Art and Technology
Incorporating Art
Bring out the markers, play dough, Legos, paints, etc.
Connect your course material and let students make decisions in groups to discus and visualize new ways to learn.
Incorporating Technology
Interactive whiteboard activities
GoNoodle

11. Statistics and Facts
Only one in three children are physically active every day.
More than 80% of adolescents do not do enough aerobic physical activity to meet the guidelines for youth.
Children now spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen.
Only 6 states (Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, and Vermont) require physical education in every grade, K-12.
28.0% of Americans, or 80.2 million people, aged six and older are physically inactive.

13. Your View
Obesity is a problem in our nation, but how can us teachers help change this trend?
Why do you think so many people fail to see the good in movement in the general education classroom?
How does movement affect the brain?
How do children learn best?
How does movement help children sit down and focus to work?
Do you think movement interferes with academic learning?

14. Think about it….. The main question is…
Do you want your students to Be Active?
Or Be Still?

15. References
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