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The Schoolyard Podcast S2, Ep2: The Power of Play

School Yard

Our expert guests share creative examples of play activities, emphasizing the benefits of peer teaching and inclusion. Play is a way to support children’s healthy development and create positive movement opportunities that can have a lasting impact on their physical activity levels into adolescence and adulthood.

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Stride Enrichment Programs – PLT4M & Stride Partnership

PLT4M

About Stride Enrichment Programs Stride Enrichment Programs help ignite interests in teens and adults and encourage them to learn new skills, build a portfolio of creative work, and foster long-lasting friendships and professional connections. ? We need to dedicate time to movement and activity.

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Webinar Wrap-Up

Montessori Physical Education

The first two components featured the importance of sleep and nutrition, and I integrated the two into my discussion. This time is about stimulating the senses, which goes beyond the five senses and includes vestibular (movement) and proprioception (body position). We will talk more about sports in the next slide.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

It was encouraging that people quickly developed creative approaches to stay active and help their children continue activities. Short physical activity breaks in classrooms [SJ18] have been shown to get students more active, and they can be used to teach academic content through movement. SPARK has the “Active Classroom” program.

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Let’s Play!

Active Schools Us

It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. Dr. Brown explains why play is essential to our social skills, adaptability, intelligence, creativity, ability to problem solve and more. He describes play as anything but trivial. We are designed by nature to flourish through play.

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Serious ATV Accident Fails to Turn Teen’s Life Upside Down

Stanford Childrens

He had to be paralyzed because just one movement could shift the tube just a little bit, which could mean no air going into his lungs and oxygen loss to his brain, says Peggy Han, MD , pediatric critical care doctor in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Stanford Childrens.