Today in Your Health, we have two reports on how exercise and nutrition help kids pay attention as they return to school. We start with exercise. It helps to build muscles, strength, and endurance - ...

It’s the era of students in motion. Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of ...

There's another burst of seat-bouncing, giggling and shouting in a simulated classroom. Through a new study, researchers hope to find ways to redesign classrooms and develop a curriculum to add in two ...

Every once in a while they solve equations by tossing around a beach ball - covered not by sand but with basic addition problems - and the kids do the math based on where the ball bounces, thumbs ...

After Hurricane Helene made landfall in September 2024, the Laurens County School District, just outside Greenville, S.C., partnered with Amy Starkey, a local therapeutic yoga instructor to help their ...

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Increasingly, researchers are finding that brain activity and brain development are enhanced by physical exercise. It now appears that exercise can help kids learn at school. This is MORNING EDITION ...