Author(s): Debby Mitchell

Sport & Recreation

Kids love to move and it's proven that children learn academic concepts better when those concepts are combined with music and movement. This book together with a DVD includes video clips which aids learning through muscle movement. The DVD includes reproducible assessments, lyrics and posters that can be used within the classroom to facilitate learning. "Learning Through Movement and Music" gets school students moving while teaching them about their bodies, health, fitness concepts and how to measure their fitness abilities. The activities themselves cover warming up, stretching, muscle identification and workouts, cardio and interval training, fitness testing, the FITT principle, cooling down and much more. "Learning Through Movement and Music" enlightens students on the benefits, the how-to's, and the why's of exercise and fitness. Reviews of this title are through UK and European PE websites, magazines and journals including "Physical Education Matters and School Sport". It is featured: at PE events throughout the UK and Europe including the Youth Sport Trust conference; in the PE catalogue sent to PE teachers, coaches and recreational sport leaders; in Human Kinetics' monthly "PE E-Newsletter" sent to over 5,000 subscribers; and, on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.