{"id":13348,"date":"2019-12-05T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:42:05","slug":"how-the-outdoors-makes-your-kids-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/how-the-outdoors-makes-your-kids-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Outdoors Makes Your Kids Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/span> freedom<\/span> to<\/span> move<\/span> and<\/span> play<\/span> outside<\/span> inspires<\/span> creativity and<\/span> improves<\/span> brain<\/span> function<\/em><\/p>\n

By Katie Arnold<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was eight years old, I spent an hour every autumn day after school shooting baskets in our driveway in New Jersey. I was small for my age, had little talent for the sport, and didn\u2019t love it all that much; what I loved were the stories I made up in my head as I practiced my layups alone. I loved how my mind was free to wander as my arms and legs and hands went through the repetitive motion of throwing the ball. Entranced by the silence and solitude, I invented elaborate tales and characters. I never wrote them down, nor did I go on to play competitive basketball. It wasn\u2019t the game or the plots that stuck, but the discovery that motion and imagination are inextricably linked. Move your body and your mind will follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m a parent, I\u2019m reliving it through my daughters. I watch my eight-year-old talking to herself as she lags behind on the walk to school. Sometimes I get impatient and chide her to hurry. Then I catch myself. This is what I was did when I rode my bicycle over and over around the block, pretending I was Harriet the Spy. My older daughter makes up songs and sings them aloud while she skis. When children have time and freedom to move through the world at their own pace\u2014not necessarily unsupervised, but unstructured\u2014they delve into their imaginations. This is the important work of childhood, and it lays the foundation for growing into curious, open-minded,\u00a0problem-solving<\/a>\u00a0adults.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research shows that exercise\u2014whether team sports, individual sports, or even just goofing off outside\u2014makes us more creative and more attentive when we come back to our desks. It can also help us imprint learning into our muscle memory, much like repetitive sports training. In a\u00a02014 study<\/a>\u00a0from the University of North Texas, researchers found that aerobic activity among kids led to higher scores on reading and math tests. Scientists at the University of Illinois, using MRI data to measure brain size, found that physically active nine- and ten-year-olds had larger hippocampi than their sedentary peers and scored higher on memory tests. And in an\u00a0ongoing study<\/a>, Northeastern University psychology professor Charles Hillman has found evidence that children who run and play for 70 minutes a day exhibit better cognitive skills than those who don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is exercise\u00a0key to cognition<\/a>? \u201cThere are many different mechanisms,\u201d Hillman says. \u201cWe don\u2019t understand them all, but one of the basic ones is that in response to cardiovascular exercise, <\/span>there\u2019s an increase in blood flow. Blood carries oxygen, which feeds the brain tissue. Another is that neuro-protecting molecules increase during exercise, and these are related, among other things, to memory.\u201d The bottom line is movement\u2014even a single bout of moderate physical exercise improves brain function. Says Hillman, \u201cIf you asked me to design a perfect school day, it would have 45-minute lessons, with ten- to 15-minute recesses in between so they can gain the benefits of outside activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The human brain has evolved to integrate and respond to signals from all five senses\u2014not just sight\u2014which may help explain why kinesthetic and tactile stimuli are a boost to learning. A friend whose ten-year-old son is dyslexic sends him to a tutor who has him practice spelling words aloud while jumping on a trampoline. Repetitive, rhythmic, multisensory activities like jumping, skipping rope, dancing, hopping, and throwing a ball engage the body, not just the mind, helping us better absorb information and retain it longer. Movement, especially when it\u2019s enjoyable, also takes our minds off what might be otherwise perceived as an onerous task.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just how much movement do kids need? In\u00a0a report<\/a>\u00a0issued in November by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service\u2019s Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, kids ages six to 17 are advised to get one hour of moderate-to-vigorous activity every day. This is is unchanged from the previous report, but what\u2019s new is the recommendation for even younger children:\u00a0Preschoolers<\/a>\u00a0ages three to five should be \u201cactive throughout the day.\u201d Team sports and organized activities are great physical outlets, but unscripted or solo free-play is also important. When they\u2019re not responding to outward stimuli and instructions from their coaches or friends, kids are better able to tune in to their own imaginations. And according to\u00a0recent studies<\/a>, daydreaming is both a marker of intelligence and a conduit to greater creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the next time my girls seem too slow on their bikes and destined to be late for school, I\u2019m going to chill out and let their minds and bodies wander.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Bit of Raintree History:<\/b> Montessori\u2019s quote, \u201cThere is not bad weather, only inappropriate clothing,\u201d underscores her research regarding the importance of spending time outside, something we took to heart at Raintree from the beginning.\u00a0 <\/span>One winter a deep snow covered the campus, and we got a call from the local TV station asking if we had kids playing in the snow.\u00a0 <\/span>They hadn\u2019t been able to find a school that was allowing kids to playing outside, but of course, our kids were.\u00a0 <\/span>They also had horses, sheep and other animals to feed in addition to playing.\u00a0 <\/span>That night on the evening news Raintree students were featured breaking ice on the horse trough with a sledgehammer and feeding the animals.\u00a0 <\/span>It looked like our kids were in a gulag in Siberia, but that’s ok.\u00a0 <\/span>Being outside is important plus the animals needed water and food!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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