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Active classrooms: Development and evaluation of a movement integration intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)
Physical inactivity is recognised as an international public health issue with less than 20%
of children globally achieving the recommended 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous
physical activity (MVPA) per day for health ...
Effect of active lessons on physical activity, academic and health outcomes: A systematic review (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2017)
Purpose. To conduct a systematic review of classroom-based PA interventions which integrate academic content and assess the effectiveness of the interventions on PA, learning, facilitators of learning, and health outcomes. ...
Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ...