The following information will give you ideas on how to use the Edu-Beam. However, you should feel free to be creative and explore other exciting uses for the beam. Have students sit around the beam so that they may touch and trace with their fingers. Try having them mark the spot not only with their feet, but also with other body parts. This gives students an opportunity to learn body parts, while challenging their movement in different ways.
Students like to be asked questions relative to their egocentric focus.
Have students walk to the first letter in their name and balance on it with their left foot, or side step to the number of their age and squat down and touch it with their right hand. You see, in just this one activity, you have asked them to perform a gross motor movement, cognitively and physically identify their own name or age and engage in a left or right orientation. This type of activity can be done with any word and number sequence. And for you teachers who have a letter, number, color or shape of the week, the Edu-Beam can be a great tool to teach and reinforce those concepts. The uses of the beam are not confined to specific gross motor activities.