Move-to-Improve video collection
This collection of videos is a visual tour of the DOE's Office of School Wellness Programs elementary classroom-based physical activity program, Move-to-Improve. View promotional videos designed to provide the school community with an overview of the program and the Train-the-Trainer workshop for PE teachers. There are also instructional tutorials that demonstrate quality program implementation.
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This collection has additional Move-to-Improve videos to complement the Move-to-Improve video collection. These videos are a visual tour of the DOE's Office of School Wellness Programs elementary classroom-based physical activity program, Move-to-Improve. Continue to use both collections to provide your school community with instructional tutorials...
Watch what principals, teachers, and students have to say about the benefits of using Move-to-Improve in their schools.
This brief promotional video shows a PE teacher, classroom teacher, and principal speaking about the benefits of the Move-to-Improve program for the entire school community. Move-to-Improve helps NYC public schools foster elementary classrooms that are fun, active, engaging, and conducive to learning.
Students reinforce academic content working in large groups while using aerobic exercises as well as yoga poses.
A class uses Move-to-Improve physical activities to respond to true or false statements. Lead this easily modified activity so students can demonstrate aerobic fitness and muscular fitness concepts to respond to content-specific true or false statements.
Students in a third grade Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) class partner up and use scarves to review math and English Language Arts (ELA) concepts.
Guided by visual aid cards, this fifth grade class uses yoga poses to review multiplication facts while improving their flexibility and balance.
Use this activity as an engaging test practice by using various physical and aerobic activities.
A bilingual kindergarten class practices counting in Spanish and English. The class also goes through a cool-down technique using manipulatives.
Students pace themselves through aerobic movements while reinforcing academic concepts in this Move-to-Improve partner-style activity.
A third grade Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) classroom uses directionality and reinforces proper posture while responding to various academic questions.
A second grade class uses physical activity to discuss and review characters in a story with this partner-style activity.
Teachers can watch this demo video of a classroom teacher, Ms. Rusin, energizing her first grade class. This video reinforces physical activity as a means to reinforce word family identification skills of elementary school students.
Classroom teacher, Ms. Karim, engages her kindergarten students in this classroom demo video by combining imagination, literacy, and physical activity, while exploring science concepts seen in nature.
Classroom teacher, Ms. Pavlovsky, and her fifth grade class review math concepts in this classroom demo video by using a variety of aerobic and muscular fitness activities.
In this facilitator tutorial video, the Move-to-Improve team provides step-by-step instructions for this fun, aerobic dance activity where students work on sequencing, cardinal directions, and listening skills.
You can use this facilitator tutorial to review how to frame instructions to easily lead a guided reading activity that reinforces English Language Arts concepts through aerobic fitness.
Review a way to lead a nature walk where students increase balance and flexibility while focusing on creative movement, visualization, and literacy.
Reinforce academic concepts with this video and while students pace themselves through aerobic movements in this Move-to-Improve partner activity.
This video demonstrates a versatile activity in which students respond to a variety of academic questions using different physical movements.
Use this video to lead an easily modifiable activity so students can demonstrate aerobic fitness and muscular fitness concepts to respond to content-specific true or false statements.