In 2007, 287 fourth- and fifth-grade students in British Columbia were evaluated to determine
if introducing daily classroom physical activity sessions affected their academic performance.13
Students in the intervention group participated in daily 10-minute classroom activity sessions in
addition to having 80 minutes of PE per week. Despite increasing in-school physical activity time
by approximately 50 minutes per week, students receiving the extra physical activity time had
similar standardized test scores for mathematics, reading and language arts as did students in
the control group.