Brain breaks that won't break your brain

A Brain Break is a pause in instruction to let students refocus, I've heard said that we should take our students average age (16 let's say) and divide it by 2 (8) and after that many minutes you should change activities or take a break. I

In a class of 45 minutes that means we need to change activities or take a break about 5-6 times. That is a LOT.

Utilizing breaks is something that I really need to work on, and one of the issues I had is that I didn't have enough types of brain break activities to keep things interesting, and I didn't have enough that didn't require students to touch each other. I, personally, like Brain Breaks that involve movement, but also can cross the midline, but need to build my repertoire.

So, as an avid #LangChatter I took to Twitter to crowd source a BUNCH of brain breaks and within a day I ended up with about 50 unique brain breaks because of the GREAT hivemind of Twitter. So I wanted to compile them here :)

View my Wakelet collection of the tweets HERE