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    This document discusses active learning strategies that integrate movement into lessons. It defines active learning as getting students moving during lessons and throughout the day. Active learning keeps students engaged, helps them retain information, and is more fun compared to traditional worksheets. The document provides several active learning strategies like letter hunts, sorting activities, movement breaks, and using manipulatives. It encourages the reader to think of how to incorporate these strategies into their own lessons, such as a letter recognition lesson where students search the room to find and write letters.

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    Active

    Learning
    Katelyn Miller
    What is Get students moving during
    Active lessons
    Learning? Integrate movement throughout
    the day

    -There are multiple strategies to


    try!
    Why is it Important?

    IT KEEPS HELPS RETAIN IT IS FUN!


    STUDENTS THE
    ENGAGED INFORMATION
    Activity

    Basic Addition
    What would
    Worksheet or a
    your rather do?
    Hunt?
    Let’s Look at
    Some You can try any of these
    Strategies with any grade level

    All kids want to move


    around
    Hunts

    Find a problem on the ground or wall to bring to their desk


    and solve

    Spread pictures on the ground that they glue for a sort

    Ex: Vowel sounds- students find pictures on the carpet and


    glue it under the vowel on their own paper.
    Sorts

    – Spread out pieces of work on the floor


    – Students sort on paper
    – Ex: 2D shapes vs 3D shape
    Write the
    room
    Students use
    Tape problems, words, Ex: Addition problems
    clipboards and a pencil
    pictures around the and students write the
    to walk around to
    room answer on paper
    solve each station
    Movement Integration

    – Add in movements to any lesson


    – Whether it is they have to hop to find something in the room or
    after each problem they need to do 5 jumping jacks
    You Try!
    If you were teaching a letter recognition lesson, what
    strategy would you use and how?
    Acting Out

    – Add hand motions to help students remember certain material


    – Ex: Use arms to make addition and subtraction sign or act out
    the butterfly life cycle
    Have students get
    up to find Use
    resources around
    the room Classroom
    Resources

    Students find a
    letter in the
    alphabet to write
    Manipulatives

    – Spread out manipulatives at different


    Tables or around the room
    – Ex: Students collect them to count to add
    to their apple tree
    Let’s
    Review
    What are 2 strategies that you would
    want to use in your classroom?
    Now You How will you add active learning into
    Try! your classroom?

    Choose a lesson you have taught lately


    and turn it into an active learning lesson

    We will all have a chance to share!

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