From a set of suggestions published in the National Middle Schools Association's publication, Middle Ground, August 1999:

• The easiest way to bring more physical activity into the classroom is to give students opportunities to work with partners or rearrange their desks for discussions. Students can also create and maintain bulletin boards. They can stand up at regular intervals to briefly summarize what they remember from the lesson.

• Let your students place their papers in a basket in the back of the room. Make it a hard-to-reach basket to induce stretching. If you don't mind wrinkled papers, let students crumple their papers into balls and "shoot" their homework into a basketball net above the turn-in tray. Or let them fold their papers into airplanes they can glide into a homework box. One student can straighten the papers after everyone has had a turn.

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