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Diane Kay Walker (Jalopydi)
Junior Member
Username: Jalopydi
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 9:48 am: |       |
Recently, I have been teaching a game which includes doing jumping jacks to elementary age students. I have been discovering that many children have difficulty doing jumping jacks correctly. When I have spoken to other adults about this they have told me that several adults cannot do jumping jacks correctly either. Do you know what part of the brain must function correctly for a person to peform jumping jacks correctly? Or in other words, is there a correlation between cognition and the ability to do jumping jacks correctly? |
DJ Cadorette
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 2:14 am: | |
Diane, I am forwarding your concern to a colleague who specializes in brain research. |
Debbie Smith
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 8:27 am: | |
You can contact Carla Hannaford at Heartconnect44@cs.com. She is an expert in the field of brain research. I have done some work in this area, but your concern deals partly with the person's ability to use both sides of the brain at an optimal level. Elementary age children are still developing dominance, so part of the problem is there is not a fully established dominance pattern for each body part (hand, foot, eye, ear, and brain). Carla has a book that documents activities that will help to develop both sides of the brain. |
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