ExerLearning - What's Generation FIT

ExerLearning: Brainy Stuff Meet the cast of characters

Here’s the pump – what’s his name and what does he do?

Here’s the messenger – have you ever heard of a Neuron?

Here’s the character that “rules in school” – Do you know him?

Starring: Ordinary Kids Brian and Brianna – Kids with Brains

Learning Can Be Fun
Brian and Brianna fill their brains at school
But – here is a tough question….

How Do Brian and Brianna Learn?

How Do We Learn?
We bring more than just a brain to school – and to all of life!

We all bring a whole body to school– A Brain and MORE

We bring a whole body – and a HEART ready to help us LEARN
How can a heart help Brian and Brianna learn?

Healthy Heart – The brain’s BFF
How did they become such great friends?

They are a GREAT Learning Team
Physical exercise increases blood flow in the brain
Active Exercise – getting the heart pumping- increases brain chemicals known as NEUROTRANSMITTERS

This is a good time to do the “Active Me Activity”

Jump up and down – right now

What part of your body is pushing your breath in and out right now? LUNGS!

Feel your chest. What is pumping very hard? Your Heart

The heart pumps blood to your lungs and all over your body -

Even to your head where your BRAIN can use it

Your brain NEEDS the OXYGEN that the blood delivers

Your brain USES 20% of all the OXYGEN that the blood delivers to your body

The more your exercise -

The more blood your heart pumps all over your body – and to your BRAIN -

Your brain USES 20% of all the OXYGEN that the HEART delivers to your body in the BLOOD OXYGEN

Your brain USES BLOOD to get all sorts of great things accomplished!

Like building more NEURONS

Huh? What’s a NEUROTRANSMITTER?
Nancy the Neuron gobbles up oxygen and creates a NEUROTRANSMITTER
A NEUROTRANSMITTER is like the fastest Internet connection

Neurotransmitters form the NEURON move information around the brain, from nerve cell to nerve cell
Exercise – getting the heart pumping- increases how many neurotransmitters our BRAIN has

More NEUROTRANSMITTERs- Now What?

More NEUROTRANSMITTERs- Now What?
The benefits come when you finish your great exercise
Blood flow shifts to the “learning” side of the brain
The brain gets full of neurotransmitters that get us really READY to learn

Hippos and Brains
Hey – Who’s this big brown guy?
Memory Trick

It’s a HIPPO
Wonder what part of the BRAIN that is?
Memory Trick

Memory Trick
School – the place you learn …
It is called a campus

Put those images together
Hippo and campus

It’s a HIPPOCAMPUS
Now you know what part of the BRAIN that is-
Memory Trick

Hippos and Brains
Workouts and exergames build better connections between brain cells
See that HIPPO Footgaming with energy!!!
What part of her brain is she helping?

Hippos and Brains
Heart-hopping PLAY can increase good learning cells in your hippocampus
Exercise BEFORE You Need to Learn

Hippos and Brains
The hippocampus is the region of the brain involved in learning and memory.
Memory Trick

Feeding Our Brain: A Fact
We get hungry
Our brains get hungry
Our brain wants BDNF

A high fat diet, like the “ All-American diet ”, decreases the BDNF levels in the hippocampus
Is THAT good for learning and memory?

Are you wondering: What are BDNF levels anyway?
What does my brain really need?

Feeding Your Brain
Remember this one: Your BRAIN is hungry for BDNF.
B DNF

Another Memory Trick
To grow really big and strong, plants need fertilizer – like Miracle Gro

Feeding Brains: Not a Plant
B rains D on’t N eed F ertilizer
They need BDNF
Memory Trick

Miracle Gro for the Brain?
Active exercise and play helps your brain make
“ B rain- D erived N eurotrophic F actor”
That is BDNF - a protein that ACTS LIKE Miracle-Gro for YOUR brain.

How Can We Make BDNF for Our Brain?

What do they need to bring to school – and use – besides a brain?

Why is the heart the brain’s best friend?

What do you think the definition of ExerLearning might be?

Exer Learning …. And FootGaming would like to thank Dr. John Ratey for his research. We learned a lot of this from his book, SPARK http://exerlearning.blogspot.com/ It’s a “must read’ for teachers and parents, available at amazon.com

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