Learning on Their Feet: A Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning Across the Curriculum K-8

Hey Kids... Get out of your seat and LEARN ON YOUR FEET!

Research shows students grasp concepts and remember more when they get out of their seats and move through a lesson. Yet many students and teachers still sit behind heavy desks, increasingly weighed down by the latest state standards. If only teachers had a practical resource for teaching mandated curriculum in a dynamic way that involves all their students and creates a joyous, inclusive classroom environment, while at the same time nailing those state standards.

Now they do. "Learning on Their Feet: a Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning Across the Curriculum K-8" is the first comprehensive resource on teaching body-based learning in four curriculum areas: Social Studies, Science, Math and Language Arts. As user-friendly as it is all encompassing, this dynamic sourcebook will give teachers K-8 a slew of practical lessons to lead their students out of their seats and into their smart bodies of knowledge.

Lessons Include:

* Finding your own comfort zone as a kinesthetic teacher

* Teaching the basic skills, like Math facts and History dates the fun way .

* Dynamic activities that level the playing field for all students

* Writing and performing funny plays that use student research

* Learning about the American Revolution from the inside out

* Conceptualizing place value through drama

* Exploring the Rain Forest ecosystem through living statues

* Chant Dancing your way through the life cycle of the butterfly

* Personifying Gods and Goddesses via game shows

* Acting out the parts of a tree

* Dramatizing photosynthesis, digestion, and the circulatory system

* Holding tall tale exaggeration contests

* Acting out any story, concept, or event with a manageable structure

* Becoming Dr. Vocabulary, and discovering new words in extraordinary places

* Helping a sleeping Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence

* Play "Passing the Bill" game while learning about the democratic process

* Improvising your way into persuasive writing

* Personifying any object or person to help comprehend it's point of view

* Learning about writing transitions by playing transition ball and much, much more!