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SmartMoves
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This deceptively simple combination of
movements and music can change the way we learn and remember.
SmartMoves, a DVD, designed for students in grades 3-12, leads
students through a series of increasingly complicated body movements
that function as a kind of callisthenics for the brain. Forty Body
Puzzles at varying levels of difficulty: Simple, Simple Too, Tricky,
Challenging, and Formidable, are included in the SmartMoves
DVD. A supplemental Teacher's Guide is also included. |
Teachers and
researchers agree — more and more children develop learning disorders
every year. Classrooms are filled with bright children who have
trouble learning, shorter attention spans, more impulsive behavior, and
decreasing scores in reading and language skills. Developed with
these students in mind, SmartMoves provides the following
benefits to ALL students:
- Less stress and anxiety
- Improvements in ability to focus
and working memory
- Greater ability to integrate
multiple concepts
- Improvements in balance and
coordination
- Gains in academic achievement
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Why SmartMoves?
Movement prepares the brain for optimal learning, and promotes brain
plasticity. Learning complex movements increases the growth of
connections between neurons, sharpens memory, improves focus, and
increases the capacity to master new information.
Though seemingly simple, the Body Puzzle movements call on a synthesis
of the visual, auditory, motor planning and thinking skills that are at
the core of learning. Students find them intriguing. Classroom teachers
find they help students switch on right, left, and whole body
coordination, visual-spatial reasoning, listening, balance, and focus.
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SmartMoves combines music, movement and
simple, geometric shapes
in three dimensions.
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