GoNoodle is a website geared toward getting kids active while they learn both in the classroom and at home. By creating a free account, you can gain access to hundreds of videos that can be used to promote movement in learning. These videos can be used for brain breaks while also incorporating learning in a fun way.
Each video on this website incorporates movement in some fashion. You can filter video searches based on curricular, mindfulness, sensory and motor skills, school life, and movement type, which is helpful for narrowing down which video to show in the classroom. Curricular searches choose the subject area you want the video to focus on. Mindfulness filters allow you to choose a video based upon behavior you want to focus on, such as stress relief, or confidence building. The sensory and motor skills search allows you to filter videos on whether you want to focus on movement that targets gross or fine motor skills. School life filters narrow down videos to those that pertain to school, such as holidays, class routines, and testing videos. You can even choose to search videos based upon the type of movement you are looking for, such as dancing, stretching, workouts, or partner movement.
This website is an invaluable resource to use for those students who need to get their wiggles out!
How This Tool Aligns to UDL Principles:
- It provides multiple means of engagement by optimizing relevance, value, and authenticity through engaging videos that get students excited about learning.
- It provides multiple means of representation by promoting understanding across all languages by using movement to explain certain topics.
- It provides multiple means of action and expression by providing options for physical action in varying the methods for response and navigation with student movement.
Implementation:
GoNoodle is a great way to incorporate movement into learning. It requires virtually no prep as a teacher and it is so easy to access and quickly show to your students. This website allows students to be consumers of learning as they watch these videos and learn from them, rather than creating their own content as a producer.
I would the GoNoodle videos as brain break activities for my young students. Because my current class is so silly, I do not think I could use these videos as a means for learning because they would definitely be more focused on the movement aspect of these videos rather than the content. The content would most likely be retained through the remembrance of the catchy songs that are featured on this site, which a great way to learn!
This screenshot is of a video on the website. This particular video is about counting to 100. It features a catchy song and dance moves to accompany the counting rhythm.
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