Activate Your Brain with Rhythm and Movement for Enhanced Learning
Engage both sides of the brain by incorporating rhythm and movement into education with STEAM activities. Enhance memory retention, reading readiness, and critical thinking skills through various exercises like brain dance, rhythm activators, and tiptoe feet. Discover the benefits of maintaining a steady beat and fostering creativity within educational parameters. Stimulate brain function, grow new brain cells, and improve mood through fun, active learning strategies.
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STEAM: Activate with Rhythm! Jessica Fredricks Polk County Fine Arts
Why Activate with Rhythm? O Rhythm engages both halves of the brain O Students learn faster, retain longer O Channel natural energy into learning energy
Put the Beat In Your Feet! O Ability to maintain a steady beat is indicative of reading readiness (also skipping) O Intermediate extension: Singles/Doubles
What is STEAM? O STEAM habits of mind O Open-ended questions O what else could this be?
I Like to Sing! O Enhancing phonemic awareness, fluency O Classifying words (science (science skill) O Training brains for algebra (substitution = math) O Creating within parameters (engineering O Expanding movement vocabulary O Developing steady beat (reading engineering) reading readiness)
Brain Dance! The more you move, the more efficiently your brain functions, because exercise: O Grows new brain cells O Produces BDNF, fertilizer for the brain O Increases memory retrieval O Improves mood O Fun, develops deep listening, but also about patterns
Iceberg What people see you do What you actually do
Rhythm Activators! (prek-2) O Animals O Numbers O Letters O Sensing a 4-beat phrase O Extensions for numbers and letters O Algebraic thinking, classifying words, engineering
Tiptoe Feet! O Social skills: ability to wait patiently O The rhythm of different movements O Spatial awareness, kinesthetic body sense O Classifying words (science skill) O Language of substitution (algebraic thinking) O Listen: (error detection) what s different? O Create: how else could we move? O Want them to create, not just innovate
Hey Betty Martin! O Do you know Betty Martin? O Who do you know? O Language of substitution = algebraic thinking O Classification of words = science skill O When to move, when not to move = life skill O Engineering = creating within parameters
Look High, Look Low O Training brains for algebra (substitution) O Creating within parameters (engineering) O Expanding movement vocabulary O Developing steady beat (reading readiness) O Classifying words (science skill)
Engineering Rhythms! O Listen O Ask: what can I contribute to support the group while at the same time leaving space for others to contribute? O Have a rhythmic conversation (talk/listen) O There are no mistakes O Constant state of reflection/evaluation
Ive come to the frightening conclusion that I I ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. am the decisive element in the classroom. It s my personal approach that creates the It s my personal approach that creates the climate. It s my daily mood that makes the climate. It s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child s life miserable or joyous. power to make a child s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de whether a crisis will be escalated or de- - escalated and a child humanized or escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. dehumanized. - -Haim Haim Ginott Ginott
Reflection O What have we learned today? O How can you use this in your work? O What is your biggest learning?
Teaching Resources Activate with Rhythm! Play Well With Others by Jessica Fredricks, available at www.PlayWellWithOthers.org STEAM-Powered! will be published by Rhythm Trek in March 2016
Thank you for being here! Jessica Fredricks Polk County Fine Arts 863-585-5595 Jessica.fredricks@polk-fl.net RhythmTrek@yahoo.com www.PlayWellWithOthers.org
