Active Bodies, Active Brains: Building Thinking Skills Through Physical Activity
Active Bodies, Active Brains offers a wealth of physical activities to help kids develop physical, social, and cognitive skills. Based on cutting-edge research in brain compatibility, these games and activities help children\ -increase their ability to focus;\ -integrate their movement with thinking, thus enhancing development of neural pathways;\ -improve memory;\ -open up more areas of the brain to participate in learning;\ -reduce stress and enhance positive feelings to increase their...
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Active Bodies, Active Brains offers a wealth of physical activities to help kids develop physical, social, and cognitiv/ie skills. Based on cutting-edge research on brain compatibility, these games and activities help children increase their ability to focus; integrate their movement with thinking, thus enhancing development of neural pathways; improve memory; open up more areas of the brain to participate in learning; and reduce stress and enhance positive feelings to increase their learning. Active Bodies, Active Brains provides you with 66 activities and games&mdash:and it shows you how to easily modify and extend those to create numerous additional games. Indeed, by applying the techniques in this book, you can create an endless supply of brain-compatible physical activities while helping your students build cognitive, health-related fitness, and physical skills.
Preface How to Use This Book Activity Finder AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction to Brain-Compatible InstructionChapter 2. Teaching Thinking Through Physical ActivityChapter 3. Introductory ActivitiesChapter 4. Basic ActivitiesChapter 5. Intermediate ActivitiesChapter 6. Complex ActivitiesReferences About the Author
