Our students should have a kinesthetic brain break every 25-30 minutes. Brain breaks are refreshing to students and teachers alike. They do take some time out of class, but the efficiency of our students goes up when we incorporate them. Please comment if you have variations on a particular brain break.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Blink Brain Break
Tom DeRosa has a blog that is titled "I Want to Teach Forever" He had his readers send in ideas for Brain Breaks. If you haven't checked out his blog please do. It is wonderful. One of the ideas that was sent in was called BLINK. It was submitted by Molly Tanner and I did in class and it is very fun. This brain break takes just 45 seconds to do, and the students love it. Watch the video and you will get a feel for how the students like this one.
Sent in by Molly Tanner BLINK 1. Stand Up. 2. Blink your left eye and snap your right hand finger and thumb at the same time. 3. Now blink your right eye and snap your left hand finger and thumb at the same time. 4. Go back and forth as fast as you can
Hello My name's Eliana and I'm from Brazil. Your blog and ideas are amazing. I'm doing brain breaks with my students, the results are really good! Thanks for the ideas. bye
The book includes all 50 Brain Breaks. It also has a companion website that allows you to view all 50 videos of the Brain Breaks. The companion website also gives you access to the SMARTBoard Version of the Brain Breaks as well as the PowerPoint Version of the Brain Breaks. It's a BESTSELLER.
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ReplyDeleteMy name's Eliana and I'm from Brazil. Your blog and ideas are amazing. I'm doing brain breaks with my students, the results are really good!
Thanks for the ideas.
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