Kinesthetic learning

Kinesthetic learning is the use of creative movement in the classroom to teach. Its techniques "release students from a passive learning posture—glued to their seats, dissociated, with decreased oxygen in their brains—and engage them physically and creatively with what they are learning"

Physical exercise "puts the brain of the learners in the optimal position for them to learn."

Kinesthetic learning brings physical movement into the classroom and connects it directly to the content of the curriculum. Methods may include, for example :
 * 1) Students working with their classmates figuring out how to show the causes of the American Revolution through whole body shapes
 * 2) Climbing into the skin of a literary character or improvising a creative-movement response to a plot element
 * 3) Enacting a journey through the water cycle
 * 4) Arranging themselves as solid, liquid, and gas molecules to demonstrate density

Such methods can apply to "math, science, history, literature, punctuation, grammar, and a range of other curricular subjects"