Thursday, April 19, 2012
Kinesthetic Engaging Learning Activities
During our wonderful March class night at Bings, many of you had super creative ways to engage kids in kinesthetic learning activities. I remember asking where do all those ideas come from. They were from your ingenious brains of course. Unfortunately, my brain isn't very creative in that area. I was more of a bookworm kind of learner and moving around made me uncomfortable. However, as a teacher, I see the need for it, and want more hands on engaging activities. Can you guys please post an example of a kinesthetic learning activity you do in your room or let me know of any books or websites that also list these types of activities. (I currently teach 4th grade reading, writing, and social studies, but in my future career will also teach math and science again I am sure, so any ideas are welcome.)
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Lori - during our core reading time, we have acted things out, such as how miners traveled west and sometimes this created "boomtowns" with businesses and schools and more families, and sometimes those people all left and it became abandoned.
ReplyDeleteWhen we added and subtracted with decimals, we would make the addition sign, use hands to line up our place values, and make our fist into a decimal that we drop down (When we add decimals, we LINE our places values up and DROP the decimal down!) Students were encouraged to stand tall and drop the decimal to the floor. We also did this for subtraction.
Splitting up odd shapes in math to find the area: "When I find weird shapes (kids gesture like they are confused with hands), I cut them up (kids karate chop in the air) into rectangles (make rectangle shapes with hands)."
With rounding we did "0-4 Falls to the Floor! - Round Down" (kids dramatically 'fall')and "5-9 Climbs the Vine" (kids quickly 'climb' a vine). We talked about how Mario does this - he ducks (0-4) and climbs (5-9).
Lewis and Clark - we acted out canoeing down rivers with other students being obstacles such as boulders, branches, etc.