RES.STS-001 | Fall 2024 | Non-Credit

MIT Project on Embodied Education

Course Description

The MIT Project on Embodied Education aims to close the gap between the growing body of research on movement and the learning process and the pedagogical strategies that educators use, finding ways to integrate physical activity and academic instruction at all levels—for example, teaching elementary school math through …
The MIT Project on Embodied Education aims to close the gap between the growing body of research on movement and the learning process and the pedagogical strategies that educators use, finding ways to integrate physical activity and academic instruction at all levels—for example, teaching elementary school math through yoga, middle school physics through martial arts, high school science through swimming, and college history through dance.
Learning Resource Types
Activity Assignments with Examples
Photo of a person doing a yoga pose while standing on a mat in the hangar bay of an aircraft carrier ship.
The Project on Embodied Education shows how physical movement, such as yoga, can be incorporated into classroom learning. (Image is in the public domain.)