Education World – Nicole Gorman
“According to results from a research project by a Texas A&M University team, children who stand at their desks instead of sitting gain “an extra seven minutes per hour of instruction time,” said an article on TheJournal.com “The preliminary results suggest that students improve their ability to stay on task by 12 percent” when using a standing desk, the article said…And not only did this study find that students using standing desks were more productive and engaged, one of the team members behind the study, Mark Benden, said a previous study he worked on found other benefits to the desks: “He found in previous studies that students who are standing burn 15 percent more calories than those sitting, a count that went up depending on the weight of the child,” according to the article.”(more)