For decades, a lot of emphases have been put on certain aspects of intelligence such as logical reasoning, math skills, spatial skills, understanding analogies, verbal skills, etc. Researchers were puzzled that while IQ could predict to a significant degree of academic performance and to some degree, professional and personal success, there was something missing in the…
The text “Stronger, Faster, Smarter” written by Mary Carmichael states that exercise is the key to develop a healthier and smarter brain. According to the text, studies show that exercise such as aerobic doesn’t only increase the size of the muscles via the increased blood flow, the same thing happens to the brain. More blood equals more oxygen, which helps maintain the brain cells nourished better. The same kind of exercise has also coaxed the human brain to produce new nerve cells and caused older nerve cells to form interconnected webs that make the brain run faster and more efficiently. All which results in a stronger, faster and smarter brain. These statements are fully held out…
Exercise is a healthy approach to life, a hobby in varied forms, a must for a physically fit lifestyle, but also a necessity for a sharp mind and emotional stability? Physical activity promotes not only what the eyes see, but also what is felt inside. School, health administrators, and even mothers have preached the importance of exercise to our body. However, the real benefit is reaped through the most complex organ, the brain. With an organ that’s constantly at work, exercise increases the executive function, blood flow, and chemical secretion creating a euphoric experience. Exercise is the gateway to an enlightenment of a self-sustaining emotional benefaction.…
In this first chapter, the author John Medina emphasizes the positive effects that exercise has on the human brain’s function and on the body in general. Before cars and advanced technology in general, Humans walked miles and miles a day (around 12) to carry out the necessities in order to survive. John uses this information to back up the idea that our brains were made for walking, so we were meant to move. So theoretically, to improve thinking skills, one must be active. From a biological standpoint, exercise gets blood to the brain, bringing it glucose for energy and oxygen, which the brain needs in order to soak up toxic electrons that our brain produces. It also stimulates the protein that keeps neurons in the brain connecting, which is the foundation for brain activity. So exercise literally makes getting fuel (blood) to the brain more efficient. John described an…
Daily physical education has been found to increase kid’s abilities to learn and focus. Over 50 studies have confirmed the following academic benefits of physical education:…
Davis, Catherine L, Miller, Patricia H., Naglieri, Jack A., Tomporowski, Phillip D. (2008). Exercise and Children’s Intelligence, Cognition, and Academic Achievement. Educational Psychology Review, 111–131.…
Physical development is concerned with the biological changes of the body and the brain. It includes genetics, a foetus’s growth in the mother’s womb, the birth process, brain development and the acquisition of fine motor skills; it also encompasses behaviours that promote and impede health and environmental factors that influence physical growth. (McDevitt & Ormrod, 2010, p. 5). I have chosen to evaluate the physical developmental stage of middle childhood, children the ages of six to ten years of age. This essay discusses the considerations for physical development and how it can be supported in the learning environment. It will look at motor development and its influences, the benefits of physical activity, and the consequences of inactivity. How a student’s physical development can facilitate or restrict development in other areas, and how we can support the physical needs and development of students.…
This article focuses how benefitical it is for young kids to participate in sports and to exercise regularly. It talks about how exercise and sports offer social relationships, physical challenges and honest competition. Also, exercise and sports can increase a child’s self-esteem and academic performance while preventing the chances of disease or drug use. All these things can help the development of children by not only making them healthy but giving them life experience.…
Now I see that a lot of children spend their time at home or at after school activities that don’t involve a lot of movement. According to Child Development and Education “a series of studies shows that reductions in physical education are not associated with increase in academic achievement”. It is important to teach a children how to play piano or improve their mathematical skills but we should also remember how important is a physical activity in their development. Also as Child Development and Education states: “One of the problems is that adults tend to want children to remain still and quiet, particularly in groups, whereas many children prefer more rambunctious activities.”…
Physical Fitness, Academic Achievement and Selected Academic Behaviors of Elementary and Middle School Students in the State of Mississippi. ICHPER—SD Journal Of Research In Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport & Dance, 6(1), 13-19.…
Exercise interacts on the physical health of people in late adulthood in countless ways. Past research has demonstrated that there is a correlation between…
Do sports make athletes smarter or dumber? Stereotypes always put the "jocks" as not so smart popular people, but in reality, studies have shown that most students who participate in physical activities have greater academic success than most who don't.…
When exercising, your brain will immediately function better causing you to have a boost in happy chemicals, reduced stress, and improved self-confidence. Having your brain function better will help you mentally and physically stay healthy and…
Exercise is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposive in the sense that a development or continuation of physical fitness is an objective. Exercise provides many effects on the human organism. Two of the different types of factors that exercise affects are the physiology of the human body and one’s physical fitness. Exercise affects the physiology of a human being in so many ways that deal with the many organ systems within the body. The physical fitness factor is also affected by exercise because exercise is a subcategory of physical activity. How efficient the exercise of a human is will determine how quality of a physical fitness that human will possess. The factors that exercise effects on the human organism vary from physiological factors within the human’s body as well as the human’s physical fitness (Hahn, p.83).…
To begin with, attending the sport and social activities provide students more chances to have a rest after a long time of study which may help them combine exertion and adequate rest. In my school, there are enough sports fields and basketball courts for students taking a lot of exercise such as playing football, basketball, tennis and running. In addition, we also have a large swimming pool which allows students to practice swimming skills and prepare for national swimming competition. After studying for a long period of time in class or in the library, we would also go there to have a rest which may makes us feel relaxed and refreshed. There is no doubt that doing sports could benefit our physical health. What’s more, scientific researches also prove that sports can also enhance the efficiency of our study. One research done by the National Health Institute, says that people who do sports or exercise at least 30 minutes a day tend to work more efficiently and make less mistakes.…