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Active Education: Lessons for Integrating Physical Activity With Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies |  | Author: Julian A. Reed
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $90.00
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Seller: twentyfourseven_books
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3011007
Media: Paperback
Pages: 129
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1608760367
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.86
EAN: 9781608760367
ASIN: 1608760367
Publication Date: June 2009
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The belief that physical activity plays a pivotal role in the public health of our nation's children is no longer a minority opinion, but rather, a steadfast belief. The health benefits associated with leading an active healthy lifestyle are well documented, yet America's youth remain inactive and overweight, if not obese. Data suggests that about 25 million adolescents are pushing the scales towards obesity. Close to half of American youth do not participate regularly in physical activity and many kids report no participation in activity during an average week. There is an abundance of empirical research findings illustrating how regular physical activity provides an array of physiological health benefits, but what is frequently overlooked is the link between movement and the enhanced cognition of children. Brain research suggests that increasing movement time has the potential to foster academic performance simultaneously, positively influencing the health of our nation's children. Empirical evidence from leading scientists' reveal strong associations between the cerebellum and memory, spatial perception, language attention, emotion, non-verbal cues and the decision making ability among children who are active while learning content in the classroom. Regular physical activity combined with teaching traditional elementary school curricula has also been found to improve concentration, along with reading and mathematic performance and academic achievement measured by standardized tests. Furthermore, positive benefits linked to using movement as a re-inforcer to enhance learning by decreasing behavioral episodes of children suffering from ADD and ADHD has also been found. The current emphasis on performance pedagogy and standardized testing related to No Child Left Behind has caused many States and school districts to reduce physical education offerings, and in some instances reduce the amount of daily recess time to increase classroom contact hours to boost test scores. What most teachers and principals often ignore is that teaching current elementary school curricula (i.e., Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies) with movement can improve academic performance and achievement while improving the wellness of future generations of children. "Active Education: Lessons for Integrating Physical Activity with Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies" provides teachers with standard-based activities to teach required elementary school curricula with movement to make teaching and learning more enjoyable!
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Movement is Mandatory for Learning January 19, 2010
Sandra Stanton (Eau Claire, Wisconsin USA)
Movement is mandatory for learning. Dr.Julian Reed of Furman University, Greenville has gathered and conducted significant research to support this now widely held belief. All teachers can boost student learning by incorporating physical activity into their class' experience. Julian Reed's Active Education is an amazing resource for educators looking for ways to do just that. Participants in my Brain Coaching seminars have found the material I share with them from Julian Reed's website [...] to be very practical and helpful. I am grateful that he has made them available online. Now he has compiled these and other teacher-generated activities into a book conveniently arranged by curriculum area. Check it out! I suspect both you and your students will be delighted.
Sandra Sunquist Stanton MS, NCC, LPC [...]
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