Goidodle

Features

Goidodle is a platform designed to get kids moving with fun, interactive videos. It features activities like dance, stretching, and mindfulness exercises. Goidodle offers engaging content that promotes physical activity and brain breaks, supporting classroom management and student focus. The platform includes a variety of video categories and integrates educational themes, making it suitable for energising students and incorporating movement into the daily routine.

Use

Goidodle is a website where educators can use videos and other activities to get kids moving. It is a knowledge-centered tool that allows kids to set routines, explore holiday events, and engage in different activities. It also has many different topics for kids to engage in such as food and cooking, mindfulness and meditation and outdoors and the environment. Goidodle also offers worksheets and blog articles. There is education-specific content available, such as curriculum-based content, grade specific content, and sensory motor skills. Goidodle helps educators give movement breaks while supporting student learning and well-being.

Description of the use in class

Goidodle is a series of web-based videos and activities focused on introducing short bursts of physical exercise in the classroom. For young children who need to burn up energy to concentrate on learning, this is a simple solution. The videos vary between 1 all the way up to 10+ minutes and everywhere in between.

Teachers choose a game that then walks students through introductions, warm-up routines, and the game itself. A tally in the dashboard section keeps track of the minutes of each activity, points gained, and medals won, which is a nice incentive for the class and a great way for teachers to share the activity summary with students.

age

The tools are used by teachers, suitable for the ages of our students

Learning outcomes

Goidodle research shows positive learning outcomes in kids who use the program.
Goidodle offers hundreds of movement and mindfulness videos for kids to do at school and home.
Kids get their bodies moving with engaging dance party and yoga videos and learn mindfulness skills to help manage their emotions.
These free and engaging games, activities, and videos provide short bursts of movement that help students improve their focus and energy levels during lessons (perfect for students who may need to burn up some energy to help them concentrate!).

Reviews / Recommendations

Teachers have positive meaning about the tool, explaining it like a fun and engaging, especially for younger kids. Kids love to sing and dance, and those activities are not always incorporated in a regular school day. They use this resource at the end of the week, during the last class period. This would give the kids something to look forward to, and get excited for the weekend, and also use it during the first period of the week to get the kids' energy out.

Example of the tool as a good practice

Goidodle is a great way to give students a quick burst of physical activity, which can help keep them focused throughout a long academic day. Featuring a huge variety of activities, it allows teachers to include YouTube videos, such as the Just Dance videos, in their repertoire. A good number of videos also incorporate academic subjects with movement, which can be a nice way to mix things up a bit as well as an opportunity to reach students who don't respond well to more traditional teaching methods. In fact, the benefits of physical fitness and relaxation on learning are well documented, and Goidodle provides teachers with a fun, interactive way to get students moving.

Inclusion

The team from Goidodle says: Our tool is accessible to all kids of all different physical ability levels! Most of our dance moves in videos can be easily modified to get everybody moving and grooving, and here are a few of our suggestions.
For students with physical disabilities, we recommend browsing videos by category type. Visit the Activities and Routines option in our toolbar to view the Goidodle videos based on what type of activity you might be looking for.
In Categories, check out the Freestyle videos. These videos are not focused on specific movements, but rather just fun goofy songs and activities. Even a student who can complete a few physical movements will get a kick out of the videos (and will not be frustrated by not 'following along').