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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. Students who have the opportunity for regularly scheduled physical activity and more classroom movement benefit academically, physically, and socially.

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

Physical Education Update

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. However, exercise does. Physical Education Update.

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

The latter to fit the various needs of schools to spent time on academic classroom time “recovery” and meet popular expectations of health benefits via clocking miles, creating multiple play opportunities, etc.

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The Urgency for Applying Individualized Instruction in Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

Parents expect objective examples of their child’s evaluations in academics. Physical education is one of the academics. If a teenager leaves their teenage years obese, 28 out of 29 will remain obese their entire lives. There is no objective data to review for the parents and the teacher, or the administrator.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

Instead, Shape outlines physical education as “an academic subject that provides a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program of curricula and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge and behaviors for healthy, active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence.”

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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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Teaching Health & Physical Education - Everyday is the way

Physical Education Ideas

According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children and adolescents who are physically active have better academic performance, better classroom behaviour, and higher self-esteem. Moreover, regular physical activity reduces the risk of chronic diseases, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.