SmartMoves DVD Gets Kids Moving

One way to deal with the universally growing student body (literally) is to keep students active -- not easy in an education environment that focuses more on test-taking than recess. FableVision and Thinking Moves released a SmartMoves DVD that combines movement and music in short segments of physical activities, and they believe this will help increase students’ ability to learn. Based on the rapidly growing field of “embodied cognition theory,” which suggests that body movement increases the brain’s ability to learn. SmartMoves features a series of 40 body movements, choreographed to music, that are designed to increase students’ academic performance, information retention, and focus.
Bottom Line: The moves take between 3-5 minutes, so it’s easy to get students hopping around then back to work.