Saying you don't have time to physically get out and move during the day because you, your students, and/or your school simply have no time and are too focused on "The Academics" is like saying you have no time to sleep because you are just too tired to be able to fit sleep in to your schedule. Yea. It's like that.
It just doesn't make sense.
This new study proves that exercise, optimal learning capacity, and brain development go hand in hand...in hand.
In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill. The researchers were hoping to learn more about how fitness affects the immature human brain. Read more from the NY Times blogger, Tara Parker-Pope. She sums it up perfectly.
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| 100 Mile Club® Kids at Washington School in Norco ALL gather for a brisk morning jog. |
...the takeaway is clear. “More aerobic exercise” for young people, Mr. Kuhn said. Mr. Hillman agreed. So get kids moving, he added, and preferably away from their Wiis. A still-unpublished study from his lab compared the cognitive impact in young people of 20 minutes of running on a treadmill with 20 minutes of playing sports-style video games at a similar intensity.
Running improved test scores immediately afterward.
Playing video games did not.
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/phys-ed-can-exercise-make-kids-smarter/
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