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Heart Health + Active Learning Valentine's Day Activities
Holidays are the perfect time to harness students’ energy and excitement into active learning opportunities, and Valentine’s Day is no exception. Here are some of our favorite heart-healthy and valentine-centered classroom activities for February 14th. These ideas feature reusable materials so you can try one activity or many!
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A Blizzard of Kinesthetic Learning Activities for Winter
With shorter days and fewer minutes spent outdoors for recess time, winter is a great time to integrate additional movement into classroom activities. Bundle up and dig into these creative active learning ideas to help you reinforce key concepts with your students.
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Stuck Inside? Stay Active with Indoor Fitness Activities
When inclement weather prohibits students from going outside, teachers may struggle to keep students physically active and engaged during indoor recess and PE. What do you do when you are stuck inside with your students? Are your indoor activities feeling stale for both you and your students? At PLYOGA Fitness, we have an amazing equipment-free solution!
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Hip Hop Public Health
Team sports are an excellent way to get kids active. They teach kids teamwork, time management, discipline, and get their blood pumping.
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Engage, Empower, and Equip Your Students Through Fuel Up to Play 60
I grew up in a suburb of New York City in which everyone, and I mean everyone, played at least one sport year-round. It was said every baby born at North Shore University Hospital was sent home with a lacrosse stick in their diaper bag. And if lacrosse wasn’t your thing, you had your pick of other travel and club teams starting in preschool: tee-ball, little league, softball, soccer, basketball, and swimming. When we got older we could play field hockey or football, wrestle, run track or cross country. Tennis, golf. Even bowling or crew. Cheerleading. Color guard. You name it, my school district had an option. Plus, we had 30-42 minutes of P.E. class every other day—all the way through high school—regardless of whether we played a sport.
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Kick Off Your School Year with a 100-Mile Goal
As an educator, starting a school year is exciting and full of endless possibilities for your students and yourself.
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Stay Active! Summer Challenge
To help your child stay active this summer, Walkabouts is launching our second annual Stay Active! Summer Challenge for pre-K to 2nd grade students! The idea is simple – we’ve created an activity tracker for children to complete for 10 weeks during the summer. Print out our Stay Active! Summer Challenge Activity Tracker, post it someplace visible like on the fridge, and fill it out each day.
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How Furniture Can Affect Learning
Educators are beginning to show more interest in furniture and how classroom setup may impact learning. In some schools, traditional individual desks have been replaced with rectangular tables and chairs. In other schools, teachers are introducing non-traditional seating including bean bag chairs and yoga balls.
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The Importance of Unstructured Playtime
How much recess is too much? When planning the school year, many school administrators struggle with optimizing the school schedule. While teachers need enough time to teach the required curriculum, active time such as the unstructured playtime of recess and physical education classes are equally crucial.
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Real-World Walkabout: Quiz, Quiz, Trade
This Real-World Walkabout asks students to move around the classroom and quiz each other on vocabulary words that have previously been covered in class. This is a fantastic game for reviewing any type of material and can even be adjusted to focus on a variety of skills in different subject areas.
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