Students having a ball - "Squirmers are Learners"
| April 10, 2011 |  View for printing |
Does anybody like those old, hard chairs from elementary school?
Becky Fisk didn't. And she could see her second-grade students at Whittier Elementary felt constrained by their traditional desk chairs. So Fisk did something about it.
"I did a little research to find what's out there, what allows kids to be excited about school," Fisk said recently. "My purpose was just to find a way to engage kids better during the school day."
She learned numerous studies have shown sitting on something that allows a kid to move improves learning. The trend in recent years is to use specially crafted exercise balls.
The reasons the balls are more effective are pretty straightforward.
By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard Mtstandard.com
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