Fun and games make for better learners -- ScienceDaily
I would expect this to become rote and lose some of its effectiveness after a few weeks or months, but retain some for years...it seems somewhere in between the adult-structured "games" of a gym class on the one hand, and the kid-structured play that Peter Gray talks about. I'd also think that it might be possible to keep it from becoming rote by having some of the eight activities be chosen by groups of kids, and at least one of them developed by those groups as replacements for the original set.
Four minutes of physical activity can improve behaviour in the classroom for primary school students, according to new research by Brendon Gurd.
A brief, high-intensity interval exercise, or a "FUNterval," for Grade 2 and Grade 4 students reduced off-task behaviours like fidgeting or inattentiveness in the classroom.
... FUNtervals involved actively acting out tasks like "making s'mores" where students would lunge to "collect firewood," "start the fire" by crouching and exploding into a star jump and squatting and jumping to "roast the marshmallows" to make the S'more. Each activity moves through a 20-second storyline of quick, enthusiastic movements followed by 10 seconds of rest for eight intervals.
I would expect this to become rote and lose some of its effectiveness after a few weeks or months, but retain some for years...it seems somewhere in between the adult-structured "games" of a gym class on the one hand, and the kid-structured play that Peter Gray talks about. I'd also think that it might be possible to keep it from becoming rote by having some of the eight activities be chosen by groups of kids, and at least one of them developed by those groups as replacements for the original set.
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