Activity Assignment 3

Professional Literature:

Summary

The Importance of Movement and Physical Activity

                Physical Activity not only helps children reduce fat, build muscle, and help joint movement, it also can be part of your everyday classroom lessons. The physical activity is being taken from the classroom instruction to improve time for more content areas. Using motion as a part of your lessons improves the students’ memory because they are already built for motion. By doing this you are helping the students learn across the curriculum in all subjects. When the subjects are related to one another it also helps build stronger schemas in the brain for memory.

               

Reaction

                This article could not be true enough. All of this we have learned in class whether it be this PED course or other education classes.

Summary/ Reaction

Winter Physical Activity

                Why aren’t we more mobile in the winter? This article tells us of some fun activities that we can do inside and outside to keep our bodies moving in a good way to fight off that winter fat we put on. The days are shorter and colder and busier for all families. Holiday gatherings and school functions keep us inside and not moving. Try some of these fun activities and you will find yourself feeling better and keeping warm during the cold winter months.

PE Central

                This website is full of activities and lessons you can do with your class to help educate them about the importance of eating healthy and movement. I know I will absolutely use this in the future for some fun indoor and outdoor activities for my classes.

How it makes me a better teacher…

                This information will help me be a better ECE teacher because this information will help me plan my lessons around physical activity and movement because all kids love to move more than they love to sit still. 

Popular Literature

Three interesting facts

1.       The coach didn’t allow water breaks.

2.       Max was a people pleaser

3.       I didn’t know that when your body temperature rose to a high degree that our cells melted.

Reaction

                Honestly I read this article because the story seemed really interesting. As a coach you always need to be safe when players are fully padded and running in hot weather. I know as I watched my brother play football the coaches seemed it was too dangerous to practice in the afternoon so they switched practice to early morning. The coaches did this so they could get a full practice in going into the first few games. It was either practice before school or in the gym which wasn’t air conditioned at all.