Active education; lessons for integrating physical activity with language arts, math, science, and social studies.

9781608760367

Active education; lessons for integrating physical activity with language arts, math, science, and social studies.

Reed, Julian A.

Nova Science Publishers

2009

129 pages

$29.00

Paperback

GV443

His final four chapters describe specific physical activities that can be used in teaching the various subjects at the elementary school level, but before that, Reed (health and exercise science, Furman U., South Carolina) discusses such matters as physical activity in today's world, how teachers benefit from integrating physical activity, what current brain research reveals about movement, how classroom movement is not a good excuse for schools to throttle their physical education program, helping the kinesthetic learner, ADD and ADHD children, and national standards and No Child Left Behind.

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