Motivation/Stretching

How can I motivate students to learn and does stretching stimulate anything to help learning?

http://offbeathome.com/2013/05/at-work-outs


This website talks about how exercising or stretching can help give you a mood boost.  If I see my students starting to get tired and not wanting to do there work I will ask my students to stand up and stretch to get them focused again.  According to this website, seven exercises and three stretches that will get you started on the right path to boost your energy and help stimulate your brain are: marching in place, push-ups against your desk, leg lifts, tricep dips, chair squats, over-head side reaches, modified jumping jacks, hamstring stretch, reach for your toes, and chest stretch.

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/affective/motivation.html

From this website it mentions intrinsic and extrinsic ways to motivate students.  One way I can help my students to get motivated to learn is by letting them choose partners, letting them play educational games on an ipad or computer when they finish an assignment, making sure I am supportive of my students, and so much more.

http://www.nea.org/home/10308.htm

Another website has suggestions to motivate you students by building a strong relationship with them, tell them why it matters, give them a voice and a choice, make it fun, make it relevant, make it real, and use technology.

Just from reading two different articles using technology is  a way to motivate my students.  This day in age technology is the basis for everything.  Students are more into technology and most the time they know how to work something better than adults. If I can embrace technology in my activities and make my students get up and stretch when they are feeling tired, maybe I will be able to get my students to stay focused longer in class.