Learn to Move, Move to Learn

There's overwhelming research that classroom based physical activity helps not only with student HEALTH but also LEARNING and BEHAVIOUR. Find out easy ways to add academic movement to your teaching day!

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Course curriculum

1. Introduction to "Learn to Move, Move to Learn
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2. Let's Get Started
3. How to Play Active Bingo
4. Pros and Cons of Sitting Post-it Note Time
1. How Many of You Grew Up on Farms? Your Parents? Grandparents? Great-grandparents?
2. Evolution of Sitting
1. Impact of Sitting Disease
2. What's so bad about sitting? Other than musculoskeletal issues, any other health consequences?
3. Impact of Sitting Continued
4. How the Inside Outside Game Works
5. Is All Sitting Bad?
1. Sitting has become the "norm" in society. Can you think of another "norm" years ago that no longer is prevalent?
2. Sitting Is the New Smoking
3. How to Play Deal No Deal!
4. Deal or No Deal - no to burpees!
5. Deal or No Deal 2nd round - yes to squats!
1. Administration Says It's Too Expensive to Change but What About the Cost of Sitting Disease?
2. Cost of Sitting Disease
3. How to Alternate Sit to Stand in Classroom!
1. It's time to go over those Pros and Cons of Sitting:
2. Pros Cons Sitting Calculator.pdf
3. What is a Sitting Calculator?
4. Making paper, rock, scissors active
5. Paper rock scissor mini demo
6. How to give a handout paper rock scissors and plank
7. It Works in High School too! Plank holds for Handouts. Paper Rock Scizzors
1. Kerry is Having Her Potato Chips After a Hard Cross Country Ski!
2. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
3. What Parents Think Their Kids Are Doing
4. What Parents Think: The Research
5. Are We Meeting Our Physical Activity Guidelines?
6. Facts on How Much We're Moving and Not
1. How do we burn calories?
2. What is NEAT?
3. Tera in her Master's of PT Program
4. Vigorous Workout then Sit or No Workout but Move All Day: What's best?
5. Tera Explaining the Research: The 3 Groups
6. Activity Time: Sit to Stand
7. Timed Sit to stand
8. Sit to Stand Wave in Action with Teachers
1. Good news if you need to sit all day: the 20 and 2 rule!
2. Active Sitters and the 20 and 2 Rule
3. Let's Warm Up Our Brains
4. A fun way to add movement with thinking: 123456
5. A fun Way to Add Movement in High School
1. Impact of Activity on your Student's Learning, Behaviour, and Health
2. How Movement Helps Our Brain
3. Thinking and Moving.pdf
4. Why Kerry Was a Terrible Mom!
5. Benefits of Walking BEFORE the test and not getting a ride to school!
6. Classroom Based Physical Activity.pdf
7. Activity: Captain's Ball
8. How to Play Captain's Ball
9. Captains game with math INTRO
10. Captain's Ball Topics
11. Captains Game Math - action
12. Schools - captains game with fruit
1. Tera: Why Some Teachers Are Reluctant to Add Activity to Their Classes
2. Activity and Behaviour
3. TRY this game: Do As I Say, Say As I Do Game!
1. Why is school the RIGHT place?
2. What makes School is the Right Place to increase physical literacy and add movement to the day?
3. Teaching our Kids "Health" instead of "Sport" for Physical Literacy
4. Conference Board of Canada
1. How do You Activate Your Classroom? It may seem overwhelming but if you start small, it will work!
2. The Many Different Tools You Can Add to Your Toolbox: Start SMALL!
3. Meet a high school language teacher who has encorporated Classroom Based Physical Activity Successfully
4. What is Classroom Culture?
5. 1. Create a Classroom Culture Where Movement is Permitted
6. 2. What is a "Brain Surge"?
7. Brain Surge Explained
8. Movement during instruction
9. Academic Movement
10. Mr. C explaining Classroom Over Under Activity
11. It Even Works in High School! Over/Under Activity
12. Chalk Relay Races
13. Active Spelling
14. Spelling exercise instructions
15. Spelling exercise in action
16. It's Time to Brainstorm: Any Ideas on What You Can do in your Class?
17. 3. What is an "Active Environment"? How can you create that in your classroom?
18. 3. Active Environment
19. How Walking Helps Creativity
20. Stand and Learn: Teachers
21. Stand and Learn: Students
22. Simple Way to Have an Active Environment in Your Classroom: Grocery Shop Skit
23. Counting with Ball Pass Engagement
1. What Happens in Japan!
2. What about if you did a school based exercise routine every morning with the announcements like Radio taiso?
3. Don't Walk in the Halls
4. How to Help Change Your School Culture!
5. What's One Small Thing You Can Try Next Week at School to Help Change Culture?
1. What Are Some Barriers to an Active Classroom? Why Would It Be Difficult to Start This?
2. Barriers: What makes this HARD TO DO in your classroom?
3. Solving the Barriers
4. Solving the Barriers
1. Here's an Easy Habit: Folding Our Arms
2. Habit
3. Folding the Arms Habit
1. Active Transportation to School
2. Active Transportation
3. Fact Sheet on Active Transportation and Kids
4. Active School Travel BC Pilot Project
1. YOU can do this!
2. Start small - Reach Big!
3. Bye for now! Email us at [email protected] and let us know how it goes!

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Learn to Move, Move to Learn

Course curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Learn to Move, Move to Learn

Module 2: Evolution of Sitting

Module 3: The Impact of Sitting on Health

Module 4: Changing the "Norm"

Module 5: The Cost of Sitting

Module 6: Pros and Cons of Sitting and the Sitting Calculator

Module 7: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines

Module 8: What's NEAT and Adding Movement to our Day

Module 9: Active Sitters and Dose Response

Module 10: Impact of Movement on Learning: Classroom Based Physical Activity

Module 11: Activity and Behaviour

Module 12: Why School is the Right Place to "Move"

Module 13: How to Activate Your Classroom

Module 14: How to Change Your School Culture?

Module 15: Barriers to Having an An Active School and How to Solve Them

Module 15: Forming New Habits

Module 16: Active Routes to School

It Starts with YOU! You CAN do this!

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Discover your potential, starting today