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Movement Breaks: Slide Download
Moved to Learn: What's the science saying...?
Doing light physical activity while you learn has been shown to improve creativity 1, recall 2, attention and understanding. 3
- Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L Schwartz, Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 2014), 1142-52.
- Maren Schmidt-Kassow et al., Treadmill walking during vocabulary encoding improves verbal long-term memory (Behav Brain Funct, 2014), 10-24.
- Barbara Fenesi et al., Sweat So You Don’t Forget: Exercise Breaks During a University Lecture Increase On-Task Attention and Learning (Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2018), 261-269.
Special thanks to our friends from Thriving in Action, Mood Routes (external link) and Student Affairs Storytelling for their inspiration and partnership on physical activity as a learning strategy and 'emoji card' assessments.