Novel Ways To Activate The Learner
What do fun and energising activities have to do with learning? A lot! Brain research
informs us that we must eliminate threat and provide a secure learning environment.
Silly Sports and Goofy Games is a collection of teambuilders and classbuilders that
will help you create solidarity and cohesion among classmates. Brain science also
teaches us that students’ brains need oxygen and glucose. Feed your students’ brains
with the energisers in this book. This eclectic collection of over 300 brain-friendly
activities will help you make your classroom a fun place to be and a in a matter
of moments you can convert any class into a focused, high-energy community. Boost
energy. Boost achievement. Release joy with the world’s most comprehensive collection
of indoor & outdoor, sport and game activities. Includes over 200, step-by-step,
fun, and involving sports and games in nine categories, including: Terrific Tag,
Happy Helpers, Beautiful Balances, Creative Coordination, Meaningful Movements,
Crazy Challenges, Ridiculous Relays, Silly Sports and Goofy Games. Use ‘em for classroom
brain breaks. Use ‘em for rainy-day fun. Use ‘em for physical education. You will
promote classroom community—with these games everyone Every part of the school environment
affects character, for good or for ill. All too often playgrounds are part of the
problem of peer rivalry and cruelty. Spencer Kagan's wonderful collection of games
shows how to use playground and classroom activities to build the cooperative skills
and community feeling so crucial to character development and sorely missing in
much of our society.
“When we don’t move and activate the vestibular system (inner ear to the cerebellum
–base of brain) we are not taking in information from the environment.”
Carl Hannaford