Large Group Brain Breaks

Scott Miller

Paul Zientarski

smiller@naperville203.org

pzientarski@naperville203.org

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“. . .not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. . . I speak from experience, having made this arrangement of my life. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”

“. . .not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. . . I speak from experience, having made this arrangement of my life. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”

Thomas Jefferson

Learners acquire and store knowledge in two primary ways: linguistic (by reading or hearing lectures), and nonlinguistic (through visual imagery, kinesthetic or whole-body modes, and so forth). The more students use both systems of representing knowledge, the better they are able to think about and recall what they have learned (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001).

Obesity Rate for Young

Children Plummets 43% in a

Decade

Sitting is the New Smoking

Average composite of 20

student brains taking the

same testBrain after sitting quietly Brain after 20 minute walk

Research/scan compliments of Dr. Chuck Hillman University of Illinois

Stand Up Sit

Down

BACH TO ROCK

60’s hit song

Sitting On the

Dock of the Bay?

A. SAM & DAVE

B. OTIS REDDING

C. SMOKEY ROBINSON

D. TEMPTATIONS

E. MARVIN GAYE

60’s hit song

Sitting On the

Dock of the Bay?

A. SAM & DAVE

B. OTIS REDDING

C. SMOKEY ROBINSON

D. TEMPTATIONS

E. MARVIN GAYE

70’s hit song

Bad Bad Leroy

Brown?

A. RICK JAMES

B. JAMES TAYLOR

C. JOHN DENVER

D. NEIL DIAMOND

E. JIM CROCE

70’s hit song

Bad Bad Leroy

Brown?

A. RICK JAMES

B. JAMES TAYLOR

C. JOHN DENVER

D. NEIL DIAMOND

E. JIM CROCE

Who recorded the

80’s hit song

Celebration?A. KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

B. KOOL & THE GANG

C. COMMODORES

D. PET SHOP BOYS

E. ELTON JOHN

Who recorded the

80’s hit song

Celebration?A. KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

B. KOOL & THE GANG

C. COMMODORES

D. PET SHOP BOYS

E. ELTON JOHN

90’s hit song

Gangsta’s

Paradise?

A. SNOOP DOGGY DOG

B. PUBLIC ENEMY

C. ICE CUBE

D. EMINEM

E. COOLIO

90’s hit song

Gangsta’s

Paradise?

A. SNOOP DOGGY DOG

B. PUBLIC ENEMY

C. ICE CUBE

D. EMINEM

E. COOLIO

Who recorded the

2006 hit song

Breakaway?

A. KELLY CLARKSON

B. JOHN LEGEND

C. LENNY KRAVITZ

D. CHRISTINA AGUILERA

E. BRITTNEY SPEARS

Who recorded the

2006 hit song

Breakaway?

A. KELLY CLARKSON

B. JOHN LEGEND

C. LENNY KRAVITZ

D. CHRISTINA AGUILERA

E. BRITTNEY SPEARS

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Very

Important

Importance Order

Pose a Topic of discussion

Pose a Point of Importance

Move to the place on the continuum

that you most identify with.

Be ready to justify your answer.

Not

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Important

Importance Order

3rd Pig

2nd Pig

Wolf

1st Pig

Not

Important

Very

Important

Importance Order

Getting the answer quickly

Noticing Patterns

Working Collaboratively

Answering correctly

Thinking creatively

Solving something in more than one way

Strongly

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Somewhat

Agree

Somewhat

Disagree

Take A Stand

Strongly

Agree

Strongly

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Somewhat

Agree

Somewhat

Disagree

Take A Stand Directions

Pose a statement or a

quote.

Move to the corner that you

most identify with.

Be ready to justify your

answer.

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Red Riding Hood, From Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

But as the woodchopper-person raised his ax, Red Riding Hood and the wolf both stopped.

“And just what do you think you are doing? Why are you here?” asked Red Riding Hood.

The log-fuel technician blinked and tried to answer, but no words came to him.

“Sexist! Speciesist! How dare you assume that womyn and wolves can’t solve their own problems without a man’s help!”

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