Bikes, Balls in Class: How Phys Ed Transformed One School

• Students were placed in their most challenging class at the beginning of the day and had PE at zero hour. 

• Reading scores went up twice as much and math went up by a factor of 20!

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Active Education: Growing Evidence On Physical Activity and Academic Performance

• Physically fit children have larger hippocampus and basal ganglia areas.  Both of these structures are have been related to learning in children. 

• When comparing students in randomly selected classrooms that offered one 10-minute Energizer physical activity break daily for 12 weeks with those in classrooms that did not, the Energizers group was significantly more active and exhibited a higher frequency of on-task behaviors"

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Brain Break Links

Darebee

• Quick fitness activities for kids (and adults)

• Click on a program, click on a day of the month, click the timer