But it's not. It’s a typical elementary school classroom with desks, a white board and books. However, instead of chairs, her students sit on exercise balls. Several elementary school buildings ...

So the very first class of the day is physical education. And at Naperville, exercise isn't confined to the gym. There are bikes and balls right in the classroom. Even in reading class ...

Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of chairs, standing desks instead of ...

Instead, she is providing an outlet for their energy— replacing many classroom chairs with exercise balls, standing desks, yoga mats, and plastic stools that wobble in all directions.

Also, "you can exercise and learn at the same time." All the children in Kimberly Vondran's second grade class sit on bouncy balls, or "learning balls" as she prefers to call them, as an ...

Dacia Gaul, a third-grade teacher at Logan, brought the "learning in motion" concept into her classroom three years ago. "I heard on the news how some people were using exercise balls as chairs in ...

As in any other group fitness class, an instructor offers direction, telling people when to pound on their exercise balls, when to click their sticks and when to drum on a neighbor’s ball as up ...