Chapter 4: Active Learning

This chapter was about incorporating kinesthetic intelligence into the lessons. The main example was using trees and shadows outside to discover ratios. The chapter also listed a lot of other ideas including all sorts of topics. The chapter also reasoned that adolescents’ growing bones cause them discomfort sitting for long periods of time. Movement not only helps them physically but it moves more oxygen to the brain to increase function. Students will also be able to remember better and for long periods when they can use their bodies to trigger their memories.

I will definitely use movement in my classes in the future. Just reading about the lesson ideas made me so excited to do them myself let alone teach them to my students. I know I will use role playing a lot but I want to think of other ways to understand different concepts in history. It will be good especially for the hard and boring stuff like how the government is set up or remembering different places on a map. I will have to always keep brainstorming for new ideas and listen to other colleagues talk about activities they do in their class.