Sentence examples for active lessons from inspiring English sources

Teachers were encouraged to be creative with how they integrated physical activity into daily schedules and were asked to conduct two, 5-minute physically active lessons per day for a total of 10 minutes daily.

For example, a class focused on PA types and the relation between PA and a healthy diet would be structured in active lessons.

In the sections below, results are presented by the four levels described above.> Child engagement Child engagement Interviews with teachers and Headteachers indicated that if a project does not involve the children and capture their interest it is not likely to succeed and active lessons in which there are practical components are likely to be more successful.

Of 204 who started About Eating, 168 (82%) completed the About Being Active lesson, with time stamp and order of lesson completion recorded for 164 participants.

They found a reduction in off-task behavior of more than 20% after a physically active lesson and concluded that the active academic lessons had a positive effect on elementary school children's behavior in class.

Other studies used other instruments to assess MVPA, i.e. accelerometers [ 32, 33] or indirect calorimeters [ 33], and also showed that the physical activity level of physically active academic lessons was mainly MVPA.

The question rises whether the lesson time spent in MVPA during physically active academic lessons influences the on-task behavior of the children immediately after the lessons.

Summarized, in the literature we found an increase in time-on-task after physically active academic lessons and physical activity of moderate to vigorous intensity seems to be an important prerequisite in order to find positive effects.

In this study a within-subject design was used to determine whether physically active F&V lessons affected the time-on-task in the regular classroom lessons that immediately followed the F&V lessons.

A few studies showed positive effects of physically active academic lessons on time-on-task in subsequent regular classroom lessons.

Previous research showed that physically active academic lessons positively influenced children's time-on-task in regular classroom lessons that followed [ 7- 9].