1. Movement in the Classroom
By Amanda Moskop
Arkansas State University
Workshop presentation
April 7, 2016

2. Role of Movement in a Classroom
Children need 60 minutes of activity a day
Movement/exercise releases endorphins
Movement is a type of way for students to express themselves

3. Concerns/Fixes Concerns: Fixes: Limited space Assign spaces
Design room to allow for movement
Set up stations around the class to incorporate movement while learning

4. Why Movement? Increased brain health Develops positive social skills
Develops motor skills
Sparks Creativity

5. Brain Health Movement is proven to get more oxygen to the brain
Meaning clearer thought processes
Movement gets the whole brain working
Meaning deeper thought
Movement can strongly influence cognition

6. Positive Social Skills
Movement includes interaction
This leads to working together building trust, confidence, and responsibility
Movement in the classroom leads to teaching social skills
Teaching children how to act appropriately with one another and cooperate efficiently

7. Motor skills Movement requires using motor skills
Are essential to children’s development
Movement requires working on all fundamental movement skills
Locomotor, Non-locomotor, and Manipulative
Confidence comes from being a skilled mover

8. Creativity Movement can give some freedom in the class
Children can have their own thoughts
Movement is not competitive or success oriented
Gives room for fun while learning
Makes children want to be involved

9. Active vs. Inactive Learning
Inactive = explicit learning
Active “fun” = Implicit learning
It is said that the implicit method is easier for children to learn
Movement incorporated into curriculum

10. Brain Breaks
Another way to use movement in the classroom to give the brain a rest examples
Popcorn song
Lollipop song (can make your own “lollipops”)

11. Move and Freeze
Example click to view another example

12. References
Academotion by Blair Dean Kendall Hunt Publishing Company