5 Ways to Add Movement to Your Lesson!

No kid wants to sit for 50 minutes.

I take that back.  NOBODY wants to sit for 50 minutes.  It doesn't matter if you are a kid or an adult.  We need to move.  We need to wiggle.

Does your lesson include wiggle time?

Here are 5 ways to quickly add movement to your lesson!

1.  Put your problems on the walls.  Instead of handing out a worksheet, tape the problems to different places in your room.  Have students move around to solve and then go back to their seat when all problems are done.

2.  Super Sleuth--have students get up and solve problems for each other!  I tell my students they can solve one problem themselves and the others must be solved by someone else.  You can easily create this yourself, or you could use this product that includes a few super sleuths!

3.  Gallery Walk.  Tell everyone to write down something from your lesson (maybe an equivalent fraction).  Then they will quietly walk around the room and see what everyone else wrote down in this Gallery Walk.

4.  Act It Out.  I love drama/plays/anything to do with skits.  Why not incorporate that into class time?  Students can act out an event from their history lesson or write a skit about someone learning how to solve a long division problem.


5.  Matching Cards.  I make matching cards for vocabulary words or equivalent decimals or place value positions (anything really), and the students must find the person in the room who matches them.  They love moving around and finding their partner!  Once again, you could make these yourself, or you could use the set that is included with other activities in this product.



That is five quick and easy ways to implement some MOVEMENT into your classroom.  What other ideas do you have? Sound off in the comments!  I'd love to hear your thoughts!