No glasses at hand? LISTEN HERE Have you ever worked out without warming up first? If you do that, chances are your performance will not allow you to show the best of you. Believe it or not, the same happens in lessons. Warm up activities are effective since they create a need for communication, they activate systemic and background knowledge, motivate and create expectations. They can be used to pre-teach new words and set the purpose for any presentation. They can be a fun way to lower stress levels and to connect with students. And best of all, these characteristics will make the lesson meaningful. Cognitively speaking, we set the learning machinery into motion. By creating effective warm-up activities, we make the brain start connecting and finding paths to find information. Memories stored in the long term memory are retrieved into the working memory. It is important to remember that our working memory provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information nece...
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