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The Learning Goal contains a Physical Education section. The project selected to
represent this goal is an observed Movement Lesson for a kindergarten classroom. Movement
and the ability to improve on gross motor skills is a key parameter in kindergarten observations.
classrooms that I have worked in. “Consensus statements suggest that youth should accumulate
2019). Some classrooms use educational music and movement videos, exercise videos and using
movement to count and say the days of the week, to increase the amount of physical activity that
While student teaching, my morning routine including getting the students up and
moving through music before the main tasks of the day began. “Engaging students in physical
activities has positive effects on their motivation, engagement, and learning” (Lindt & Miller,
2017). The students were more often focused and centered to begin working. Physical activities
can be used throughout the school day, and not just during physical education classes.
“Movement is the primary means of communication for children. Movement activates and
integrates connections in the brain, thus enhancing the learning process. Physical education is a
prime content area for interdisciplinary learning” (Kaittani, Kouli, Derri & Kioumourtoglou,
2017).
The movement lesson was a great activity, not just to get the students moving, but also
introduced the students to the concepts of listening and how to play ‘cake walk’ style game. The
students were tasked with listening to the music, noticing what pumpkin each of them had
stopped on, and then looking at the key to determine what each symbol meant. There were some
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challenges during the lesson, but the students were still exposed to more physical activity in the
classroom. “The elementary school setting provides an ideal environment to improve the PA
levels of children. Schools can reach a large volume of children with offerings that include
unstructured recess, physical education (PE), and PA in the classroom as well as before and after
school” (Kibbe, Hackett, Hurley, McFarland, Schubert, Schultz, & Harris, 2011). The students
were eager to continue, but the next time this game was to be played, it definitely needed a larger
area to play.
While working in multiple classrooms that have used movement throughout their normal
classroom schedule, I was interested to perform my own research about integrating movement
through the Classroom Research course through the Master’s of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
classrooms during normal classroom time (Webster, Russ, Vazou, Goh, & Erwin, 2015b)”
(Webster, Zarrett, Cook, Egan, Nesbitt & Weaver, 2017). The movement lesson is a prime
Analyzing the typical daily schedule the academic minimum time requirements per day is
very structured. The ability to incorporate Physical Activities (PA) into learning time also has to
instruction and/or with academic content usually taught in elementary general education
classrooms (e.g., math, language arts, science). Despite the benefits of MI, elementary classroom
teachers (ECTs) often perceive barriers to integrating movement in their classrooms” (Webster,
Zarrett, Cook, Egan, Nesbitt & Weaver, 2017). A majority of time during the school day is sitting
during academics, and for younger students, can be a very difficult task. Incorporating movement
Resources
C.A. Webster, L. Russ, S. Vazou, T.L. Goh, H.E. Erwin. Integrating movement in academic
Fröberg, A., & Raustorp, A. (2019). Integrating the Pedometer Into Physical Education:
https://doi.org/10.18666/TPE-2019-V76-I1-8608
Kaittani, D., Kouli, O., Derri, V., & Kioumourtzoglou, E. (2017). Interdisciplinary Teaching in
Physical Education. Arab Journal of Nutrition and Exercise, Vol 2, Pp 1-11 (2017), 1.
https://doi.org/10.18502/ajne.v2i2.1248
Kibbe, D. L., Hackett, J., Hurley, M., McFarland, A., Schubert, K. G., Schultz, A., & Harris, S.
(2011). Ten Years of TAKE 10!®: Integrating physical activity with academic concepts in
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.01.025
Lindt, S. F., & Miller, S. C. (2017). Movement and learning in elementary school: integrating
physical activity into elementary school lessons in reading, math, and other subjects can
boost students’ academic learning, while also helping them meet goals for physical
https://egan.ezproxy.uas.alaska.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
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Webster, C. A., Zarrett, N., Cook, B. S., Egan, C., Nesbitt, D., & Weaver, R. G. (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.12.011