The article “Students Need More Exercise. Here’s How to Add Activity Without Disrupting Learning ” (March 3, 2023) was an excellent depiction of why it’s important for students to add movement into ...

Harvard-affiliated research indicates that physical activity enhances learning. Studies show that exercise before school improves attention and classroom behaviour. Short movement breaks during class ...

CYPRESS, Calif. — There are 31 fifth-graders in Mr. Bettencourt’s class at Morris Elementary, but only a handful of chairs. Since the first week of school, the students have sat — and often bounced — ...

Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time. Within these walls, knowledge transcends textbooks ...

Today in Your Health, we have two reports on how exercise and nutrition help kids pay attention as they return to school. We start with exercise. It helps to build muscles, strength, and endurance - ...

Every once in a while they solve equations by tossing around a beach ball - covered not by sand but with basic addition problems - and the kids do the math based on where the ball bounces, thumbs ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology ...