HOW CAN I USE MOVEMENT In MY CLASS?

Adjusting for Skill/Age

Vary the speed

Focus on participation or elimination

Choose an appropriate object, i.e. a beach ball vs. a bean bag

Allow group work or individual participation as is appropriate

Simplify or complicate the rules to suit the group's needs

Reviewing Content

Tennis ball bounce review

Relay review in groups using varying locomotive skills to get back to the board/desk

Create a dance or song reviewing content

Hula hoop Venn diagram with notecards

BRAIN BREAKS

2-minute dance party

Hot Potato

Simple stretches/sun salutations

Teaching Content

Physical representation of atomic structure

Human tectonic plates and earthquakes

Timed relay race representing neural network activity

LANGUAGE

Moving Editor: walk, pause, bend to demonstrate punctuation and mechanics

"Twister" game with vocabulary words, English or foreign language

Kinesthetic literary analysis and character charades

MATH

Dance representing Order of Operations

Kinesthetic discovery of circumference and radius

Group clusters representing answers to addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.