Skillastics
JUNE 23, 2022
Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. Absolutely. Improve oxygen flow to the brain.
Teen Health 101
MAY 17, 2022
Exercise is known to affect your physical health substantially, but movement also has many benefits on your mental health and well-being. However, it is important that you exercise safely and intuitively to avoid further harm to your body or mind. Exercise can also help people manage depression. and Melinda Smith, M.A.
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Designs for Health
JANUARY 4, 2024
Sweat, particularly during physical exercise and exposure to hot weather, is the largest source of electrolyte and water loss. Daily water losses also occur from respiration, urination, and bowel movements. Even a loss of 1% body mass can potentially impact psychological functioning and activities like driving.
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 5, 2021
Assumed in metacognition is a cognitive architecture of complex movements organised over levels upon specific 'building blocks'. I have written previously on the neuroscience of movement and the practical applications of neuroscience to sport teaching and coaching (see here ). McCarthy, P. & Burns, L.
SHAPE America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine.
PLT4M
MAY 17, 2023
Vigorous physical activity slows maturation, particularly if there is associated energy imbalance or emotional stress, but it does not greatly affect body size. Well-designed exercise programmes enhance the immediate physical, psychomotor and intellectual attainments of a child.
Reinventing the Game
JUNE 15, 2021
This paper explore the ecological perspective to the complexity existence that skills learning takes place in, i.e. why and how movement emerges. This is perhaps opposed to the more palatable perspective of skills learning as solely mechanical and existing in a ‘simple’ environment of learner and teacher, i.e. how movement is created.
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