This is a power point that i created for a project in 9th grade

1. All school, no play? Kids
learning suffers without
recess.
Power point :by Tianna Ciasse

2. Why playtime matters
Don't underestimate child's play. It may look
like leisure time, but when children are playing
house, fighting imaginary dragons or organizing
a game of hopscotch, they're actually
developing critical life skills and preparing their
brains for the challenges of adulthood.

3. Top 5 Benefits of Play
• Better behavior
• Playing for the
team
• Let's move
• Learning boost
• It's fun

4. Better
behavior
Taking recess away from schoolchildren as punishment might be
counterproductive. According to a 2009 study in the journal
Pediatrics, kids behave better in the classroom when they have
the chance to blow off steam on the playground during the day.
Researchers compared teacher ratings of 8- and 9-year-olds'
behavior in schools with and without recess periods.
The kids who had more than 15 minutes a day of breaks behaved
better during academic time. Unfortunately, 30 percent of the
more than 10,000 children in the study had no recess or less than
15 minutes of recess each day.

5. Playing for the
team
Play teaches kids to play nice. Research published in
the Early Childhood Education Journal in 2007
revealed that both free play and adult-guided play
can help preschoolers learn awareness of other
people's feelings.
Playing also teaches kids to regulate their own
emotions, a skill that serves them well as they move
through life.
“You get to try things out with no consequences,” said
Kathy Hirsch-Pasek, a child development psychologist
at Temple University, who researches the benefits of
play.

6. Let's move
Tree-climbing, foursquare and even a round of
dress-up get kids moving much more than
television or computer-game time. The American
Heart Association recommends that children over
the age of 2 engage in at least an hour a day of
moderate, enjoyable physical activity.
There's evidence that active children grow into
active adults, thus decreasing their risk of heart
disease and other scourges of a sedentary lifestyle.
One study published in 2005 in the American
Journal of Preventative Medicine followed citizens
over 21 years and found that the most active 9- to
18-year-olds later remained highly active later in

7. Learning boost
Reading, writing, arithmetic and … recess? A
2009 study in the Journal of School Health
found that the more physical activity tests
children can pass, the more likely they are
to do well on academic tests. That suggests
unrelenting classroom time may not be the
best way to improve test scores and
learning.
Children learn to count when they're doing
hopscotch. They learn about numbers when
they're playing stickball, and believe it they
know which team is ahead. They are telling
stories on the playground, and they're
getting active.

8. It's fun
All work and no play really does make a child
a dull boy/girl. Play is a natural state of
childhood. Even animals play. University of
Tennessee bio psychologist Gordon Burghardt
told The Scientist magazine in 2010 that he's
even observed turtles playing.
Kids are more likely to come to school if they
get a recess/ breaks. Not only that, but recess
extends the same freedom to children that
adults may take for granted.
Adults get breaks, Kids need breaks, too.

9. References:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id
/44123365/ns/today-
parenting_and_family/

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