Listening to a lesson at a local elementary school in Tampere, Finland in 2016
Local elementary school in Helsinki, Finland visited in 2017
Local children's activity place in Jyv?skyl?, Finland in 2018
The educational designer, after consulting with the students, has turned the walls in the walkway into a rock-climbing venue for the children as well. The students were challenged to set up fun rules for the game, such as only stepping on the yellow dots.
The teachers at the local elementary school in Tampere, Finland
are even encouraging students to organize their own recess play activities. Some students add a sport to their schedule and use recess to complete it.
Method 2: Encourage teachers to use more of the campus facilities and natural environment, rather than just staying in the classroom.
When you walk into a Finnish classroom, you'll find a lot of fitness balls scattered around the room, which is because Finnish teachers advocate that students not only have the option of choosing any position they're comfortable with, but that they can even stand and lie down to learn, and that they can move their bodies freely so that their brains can "live" in their minds.
When I attended a class at the University of Jyv?skyl?'s primary school, the teacher emphasized: "In the future, sitting classrooms will be a thing of the past, and children will need to be able to learn more freely and diversely.
Not only that, but in the face of the reality that students of different ages have preferences for the seasons,
- In the spring, elementary school students exercise more, and in the fall and winter they exercise relatively little;
- In the fall and winter, middle school students exercise more (e.g., ice skating, skiing), but in the spring they don't like to move.
Finnish teachers conduct field lessons, forest lessons, and outdoor physical education lessons to balance the decrease in physical activity due to seasonal changes.
Most commonly, teachers take elementary school students out into nature in the fall and winter, and junior high school students on outdoor and field research activities in the spring. In short, nature is the best classroom, and once children get outdoors, they are bound to use their bodies and brains simultaneously.
Method 3: Use technology to support student movement and learning. During the 2010-2012 pilot, Tuija Tammelin and her team found that elementary school students exercised more than middle school students.
To boost physical activity among Finnish secondary school students, many schools in Finland are equipped with large electronic screens to motivate students to get their bodies moving. Students can see their body curves on the screen and can play virtual running, dancing, boxing, VR games and more. Such activities not only release the energy in middle school students, but also mobilize their peer interaction and participation.