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Brain Games: Enhancing Movement-Learning Connections for Brain Function

Explore brain games that optimize brain environment for cell growth and learning. Discover activities to engage both brain hemispheres and boost cognitive functions through movement. With exercises targeting lateralization, centering, focus, and coordination, enhance student learning experiences for overall brain development.

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Brain Games: Enhancing Movement-Learning Connections for Brain Function

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  1. Brain Games Old & New:Enhancing Connections Between Movement & Learning

  2. Make A Brain

  3. Brain Function: 3 Dimensions LATERALITY: Left & Right read, write, listen, or speak INTEGRATION CENTERING: Top & Bottom feelings & emotions ORGANIZATION FOCUS: Front & Back comprehension (blend details for meaning) COORDINATION & FOCUS   

  4. Growing New Connections Exercise optimizes the environment in the brain to help cells grow & prosper

  5. Can WE Change the Brains of our Students’? YES…through everyday experiences! The brain responds like muscles, growing with use, withering with inactivity

  6. LEFT SIDE/RIGHT SIDE BRAIN GAMES • Face Touch & Index Finger • Thumb & Index Finger • Got Cha’ • Letter Spots • Thumb & Pinkie

  7. Letter Spots Bead Ace Bad Bed Cab, Ed Dab Bade Ade A= Right Shoulder B= Right Ear C= Nose D= Left Ear E= Left Shoulder

  8. FRONT/BACK BRAIN GAMES • Pencil Top • Star & the Octopus • Paper Twirling • Arm Wrap

  9. Top/Bottom Brain Games • Circle Name • Pat Head & Rub Stomach • Elbow to Knee Tap

  10. BIHEMISPHERIC LATERALIZTION The midline is either a bridge or a barrier to learning. From the midline of the bridge, we can see the whole of the “landscape”…the midfield.

  11. Cross LateralizationBrain Games • Nose & Ear Touch • Finger Find • Figure 8 • Got Cha’…Again • Slap Count • Alphabet Clap • Shoe Tie

  12. Cross LateralizationBrain Games • Finger Aerobics Ripple (cross arms) • Thumb & Pinkie • X Bob & Wiggle • Slap Count Say 21 • Figure Eights • Pretzel • Bizz-Buzz

  13. FIGURE 8 MAT

  14. How to Use Brain Games When to use: Prior to staring lesson (Shoe Tie) Instant Activity (Criss-Cross Clap) Brain Break during lesson (Figure 8) Culminating Activity (Slap Count & Say 21) Where to Use:Physical Education (Hand Shake) Classroom Brain Breaks (Pretzel) Recess (Alphabet Clap) Lunch Room (Finger Find) Waiting (Thumb & Index Finger) Other Resources: Brain Games for Learning National Geographic TV: Brain Games (Mondays @ 9:00) Lumosity Brain HQ by Posit Science Fit Brain

  15. We know that intelligence is not merely a mental phenomenon and that the mind cannot be educated without the participation of the body. Marc Jeannerod

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