Can exercising make you happier? Effects of physical activity

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Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? Can exercising make you happier? There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.) © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 5 minutes You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? Student should share their experience participating in physical activities of all types. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? Students should reflect on their play and consider whether they notice a difference in their feelings and mood when playing intensely. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? (Possible Search Queries: “what are endorphins”) From How Stuff Works (http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/endorphins.htm) (excerpt) In the early 1970s, researchers were studying how the brain is affected by opiates, such as heroin or morphine. They found that opiates interact with specialized receptors in cells that are primarily massed in the brain and spinal cord. When opiates enter these receptors, they hinder or block the cell's transmission of pain signals. But why, wondered the scientists studying this phenomenon, would these specialized receptors exist in the first place? The most plausible answer was that opioid receptors exist due to the presence of an opiate-like substance produced naturally in the body. Enter endorphins: your own private narcotic. Endorphins are neurotransmitters, chemicals that pass along signals from one neuron to the next. Neurotransmitters play a key role in the function of the central nervous system and can either prompt or suppress the further signaling of nearby neurons. Endorphins are produced as a response to certain stimuli, especially stress, fear or pain. They originate in various parts of your body -- the pituitary gland, your spinal cord and throughout other parts of your brain and nervous system -- and interact mainly with receptors in cells found in regions of the brain responsible for blocking pain and controlling emotion. Until recently, much of what we've learned about endorphins has been gained from monitoring endorphins in the human bloodstream and in rats' brains. It wasn't possible to measure endorphin levels in the human brain without harming the subject, so the role of endorphins in the "runner's high" and other periods of euphoria or mood change were still hotly debated. However, new imaging methods allow researchers to study the ebb and flow of endorphins as they interact with human brain cells, verifying their role in the rush that exercise -- and other triggers -- sometimes prompts. There are at least 20 different kinds of endorphins, and one kind, beta-endorphins, are stronger than morphine and have been shown to play a part in everything from alcoholism to diabetes to aging of the brain © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? (Possible Search Queries: “exercise and endorphins”) From How Stuff Works (http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/exercise-happiness2.htm) (excerpt) Endorphins act as both a painkiller and as the pay-off for your body's reward system. When you hurt yourself (or eat a hot chili pepper), you may get a big dose of endorphins to ease the pain. You may also get an endorphin blast from talking to a stranger, eating a satisfying meal or being exposed to ultraviolet light. (Everyone has different amounts of endorphins, and what may trigger an endorphin rush for one person could very well produce a dud for someone else.) The pay-off in the form of your body tapping into its own stash of "opiates" is to let you know you've had enough -- and convince you to do it again sometime soon. Exercise stimulates endorphin production as well, but for a different reason. You're probably familiar with the term "runner's high," which refers to the euphoric feeling one sometimes gets when exercising. Researchers have found that light-to-moderate weight training or cardiovascular exercise doesn't produce endorphins, only heavy weights or training that incorporates sprinting or other anaerobic exertion. When your body crosses over from an aerobic state to an anaerobic state, it's suddenly operating without enough oxygen to satisfy the muscles and cells screaming out for it. This is when the "runner's high" occurs. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Exercise and Endorphins 9/10/2018 11:01 PM Exercise and Endorphins Can exercising make you happier? 1 Thinking Do you participate in any physical activities (like sports, playing outside or inside, etc.)? What type of physical activities? Describe how strenuous these activities are as you participate. 2 Do you feel differently during and after playing a sport or playing intensely? 3 Web Search What are endorphins? Where do they come from and what are their functions? 4 How is physical activity connected to endorphins? 5 Why do you think endorphins are important to the human body? Based on what you know now, what would happen if the human body did not have endorphins to function the way they do? Students should consider why endorphins are important and reason around what would happing within the human body without endorphins. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.