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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

If we pause to take a panoramic view of our current landscape, we are reminded that our country has an obesity epidemic, rise in hypokinetic diseases, as well as mental health concerns. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym!

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Want Smarter Kids with More Brain Cells? Give Them Daily Physical Education in School!

Physical Education Update

However, exercise does. In simpler terms, at Naperville HS, daily physical education classes were making new brain cells and the academic classes were filling those new brain cells with knowledge. Not only has academic performance improved school-wide, so has behavior and childhood obesity levels.

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The Urgency for Applying Individualized Instruction in Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

Applying the principles for intense exercise requires immediate feedback. These principles of individualized instruction, in group settings, become impossible to implement for intense exercise, when there is no immediate feedback. What individual exercise intensity records are documented from physical education or sport?

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The Importance of Exercise

Physical Education Ideas

When it comes to exercise, this is all language you probably don’t need to tell your students. In a world where technology is taking over and “Fortniting” is more popular than bike riding, it is important we all send the same consistent message about the importance of exercise to our students. How much exercise do children need?

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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

PLT4M

Academic Performance – Average scores for students in 2022 declined 5 points in reading and 7 points in mathematics compared to 2020. Academic Performance – Improves attention and memory. Physical education is an academic subject, just like math or science.

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What Is Health and Wellness?

PLT4M

Therefore, regular physical activity and regular exercise can help promote overall physical health. Example: Physical health is supported through physical wellness activities like exercise and working out. What types of wellness can lead to mental health or social well-being?

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Benefits of Physical Activity In Schools

PLT4M

We did so, because we knew that exercise’s mental and physical benefits were essential for students’ well-being while living through a pandemic. At the same time, headlines started to pop up about the pandemic’s mental and emotional toll on students and its impact on overall academic performance.