If you want your students to understand WHY exergames can help them learn, go through this with them.. Students "get it" quickly

1. Generation FIT- Brainy Stuff For Game Masters and WiiLs [email_address] www.generation-fit.com Copyright 2008 invenTEAM

2. Generation FIT- Brainy Stuff Meet the cast of characters

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

4. Here’s the messenger – have you ever heard of a neurotransmitter?

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

6. Starring: Ordinary Kids Brian and Brianna – Kids with Brains

8. How Do Brian and Brianna Learn?

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

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

15. Jump up and down – right now

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

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

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

19. Even to your head where your BRAIN can use it

20. Your brain NEEDS the OXYGEN that the blood delivers

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

22. The more your exercise -

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

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

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

26. Like NEUROTRANSMITTERS?

49. Exer Learning …. And Generation FIT 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

50. Generation FIT and ExerLearning Why does a school need Game Masters and WiiLs? [email_address] www.generation-fit.com Copyright 2008 invenTEAM