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How Kinesthetic Learning Improves Student Understanding

This presentation by Craig Higgins explores how kinesthetic learning improves student comprehension, highlighting the importance of physical activity in enhancing brain function. It discusses successful initiatives like Zero Hour PE in Naperville School District, which integrates 45 minutes of exercise before classes. Insights from research by John Ratey on the brain's plasticity, neurogenesis, and the impact of exercise on learning are explored. Practical activities and strategies are provided for educators to incorporate into their classrooms to foster a more dynamic and engaging learning environment.

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How Kinesthetic Learning Improves Student Understanding

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  1. How Kinesthetic Learning Improves Student Understanding Presented by Craig Higgins

  2. Warm Up • Quick and easy way to get the blood flowing and the brain working! • Name of Activity: Space Jam • Grade Level: K-3 • Formation: Standing at desks • Equipment: none

  3. SPARK Case StudyTHE REVOLUTIONARY NEW SCIENCE OF EXERCISE AND THE BRAINby John J. Ratey, MD • Naperville School District 203 • Zero Hour PE – requires 45 minutes of physical activity before school begins. • Competing against themselves • Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) • 38 countries – over 230,000 students • 99% of students took test • Scored 1st in Science • Scored 6th in Math

  4. Exercise: • Improves Learning • Decreases: • Stress • Anxiety • Depression • Attention Deficit • Addiction • Hormonal Changes • Compensates the Aging Process

  5. Brain Functions • Plasticity – The more you use your brain the stronger and more flexible it becomes. • Neuron – Transmit information throughout the body. • Synapse – The connection between neurons. • Caused by a chemical reaction • Neurotransmitters – Carries signals between neurons and other cells in your body. • Serotonin - Prozac • Norepinphrine • Dopamine - Ritalin

  6. Making Connections

  7. Priming the Brain • Three ways exercise optimizes the brain function. • Ready to learn – improves attention and motivation. • Creates a micro environment by releasing neurotransmitters. • Promotes new brain cells • Hippocampus – memory station • Neurogenesis – (Birth of neurons) is the process by which neurons are generated. • The brain is created for movement. • Inactivity kills the brain: “Don’t use it, you lose it.”

  8. Looking at the NumbersAccording to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services

  9. Three Dimensions of the Brain • Focus Dimension • Attention Intelligence • Cerebellum • Brain Stem • Centering Dimension • Emotional Intelligence • Thalamus • Hypothalamus • Pituitary Gland • Laterality Dimension • Informational Intelligence • Cerebral Cortex

  10. Attention Intelligence • First to develop • Seeing, participating, anticipating, comprehending • Controls breathing and heart rate • Visual skills • Controls access to higher reasoning • Receives all information from senses

  11. Centering Dimension • Second to develop • Feeling, stabilizing, organizing • Helps convert short term memory to long term • Generates pleasure and anxiety responses • Releases hormones • Fight or Flight • Sense of smell

  12. Informational Intelligence • Third to develop, not fully developed until the age of 8 • Thinking, processing, communicating • Interprets all senses • Allows us to form complex memory, thought, and reason • Language • Expression • Logics

  13. Cross-Lateral Movement • Crossing over – using both sides of your brain • Improving academics • Math – left side of the brain • Spelling/Reading – both sides of your brain • Up/Down – CENTERING • Emotions • Hormones • Side/Side – LATERALITY • Academics – crossing your mid-line • Front/Back – FOCUS • Memory • Concentration

  14. Brain Gym Activity • Lazy 8

  15. Let Us Put Our Brains Together • At your table discuss strategies and activities you use in your classroom to promote Kinesthetic learning. • Discuss how exercise has improved your overall wellbeing.

  16. Questions • Remember I am not a Neuroscientist.

  17. Homework • Identify three different resources that use brain based activities. • Using the same resources PRINT tenactivities or lessons you could use in your classroom.

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