Cathrine Himberg
Boogie Boost for Body and Brain
Come learn dances that get the heart rate up and challenge the brain. Create new brain cells and improve your synaptic connections! Learn The Brain Boostin' Boogie, Pencil Full of Lead, Merengue Mixer, and more. Information from SPARK (Ratey, 2008), focusing on HOW exercise affects the brain will be sprinkled in between the dances.
In this session, participants will learn brand new dances that get the heart rate up and challenge the brain. Information from Ratey's book SPARK (2008), focusing on HOW exercise affects the brain will be sprinkled in between the movement sequences. The information will be explained in a way that is easy to remember and share with middle and high school students.Participants will learn:
-At least three new line and Poco Loco dances: The Brain Boostin' Boogie, Pencil Full of Lead and a ballroom/social dance mixer: Merengue Mixer
-A simplified version of the process of HOW muscular exertion affects brain function and learning.
Attendees will leave with fun new dances to bring back to school to use in MS or HS physical education class, or as brain breaks in the classroom.
All information about the effects of exercise on the brain is from the research presented in John Ratey's book SPARK (2008)as well as Medina's Brain Rules (2008).
Relevance/importance: Lots of teachers have read SPARK and are hungry for ways to teach its important messages to their students. This session will model a way for teachers to teach their students HOW exercise affects not only physical health, but learning as well.Set up:
Attendees will learn one dance, then learn a few facts about how exercise boosts brain power and academic leanring. Then they will learn another dance, and another few facts. This will continue until we have learned three- four dances (depending on participants’ skill level…). At the end of the session the facts will be put together, and the process of HOW exercise affects brain power will be explained/reviewed.
Theoretical basis: Exercise readies the brain for learning by a process that starts with the muscles' movements. The factors that are produced during exercise create a chain reaction that end with more brain cells and better connections between them. This process will be explained using an info graph created for www.supportREALteachers.org. Teachers will leave with an easy to remember way to explain this important process to their students.
Thursday 2:15 - 4:15 pm
Cypress
Come learn dances that get the heart rate up and challenge the brain. Create new brain cells and improve your synaptic connections! Learn The Brain Boostin' Boogie, Pencil Full of Lead, Merengue Mixer, and more. Information from SPARK (Ratey, 2008), focusing on HOW exercise affects the brain will be sprinkled in between the dances.
In this session, participants will learn brand new dances that get the heart rate up and challenge the brain. Information from Ratey's book SPARK (2008), focusing on HOW exercise affects the brain will be sprinkled in between the movement sequences. The information will be explained in a way that is easy to remember and share with middle and high school students.Participants will learn:
-At least three new line and Poco Loco dances: The Brain Boostin' Boogie, Pencil Full of Lead and a ballroom/social dance mixer: Merengue Mixer
-A simplified version of the process of HOW muscular exertion affects brain function and learning.
Attendees will leave with fun new dances to bring back to school to use in MS or HS physical education class, or as brain breaks in the classroom.
All information about the effects of exercise on the brain is from the research presented in John Ratey's book SPARK (2008)as well as Medina's Brain Rules (2008).
Relevance/importance: Lots of teachers have read SPARK and are hungry for ways to teach its important messages to their students. This session will model a way for teachers to teach their students HOW exercise affects not only physical health, but learning as well.Set up:
Attendees will learn one dance, then learn a few facts about how exercise boosts brain power and academic leanring. Then they will learn another dance, and another few facts. This will continue until we have learned three- four dances (depending on participants’ skill level…). At the end of the session the facts will be put together, and the process of HOW exercise affects brain power will be explained/reviewed.
Theoretical basis: Exercise readies the brain for learning by a process that starts with the muscles' movements. The factors that are produced during exercise create a chain reaction that end with more brain cells and better connections between them. This process will be explained using an info graph created for www.supportREALteachers.org. Teachers will leave with an easy to remember way to explain this important process to their students.
Thursday 2:15 - 4:15 pm
Cypress