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Furnish the classroom
Furnish the classroom for an enriching learning environment. Being able to create innovative, dynamic, and enriching learning environments is a large part of the modern, future school. How we furnish a classroom affects how students experience and perceive the space but it also affects the…
Guidelines and recommendations
Here we have compiled recommendations and guidelines on children's and young people's learning related to physical activity habits in school. Health for Learning, Learning for Health: A Knowledge Overview, Skolverket, 2019. A knowledge overview with the aim of increasing understanding of how learning and health...
Why active classrooms?
Young people sit with a problem at their desks, on the bus, in front of their phones, tablets, and at the dinner table. Children and young people sit for 70-80 percent of their waking hours, and only three out of ten children and young people in Sweden get enough exercise, see…
Quick facts
What height should the table be when I stand up? Our height-adjustable student desks are easy to adapt for both small primary school children and adult-sized students. The stepless height is easily adjusted manually, no electricity required. The desks can be raised from…
10 Active Tips!
Here we offer some simple active tips that teachers and educators can use for more movement and less sitting in and outside the classroom. Set an activity timer every 30 minutes. Take a brain break every 30 minutes during theoretical lessons.
Sedentary lifestyles cost Sweden 1.3 billion SEK
WHO: Swedish billion-dollar bill for lack of physical activity Every year, inactivity costs Sweden 1.3 billion SEK. This is the estimate made by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a new report, where the organization calculated the cost of illnesses and healthcare needs that could have been avoided if we had...
The home office – a health trap?
Here's how to avoid your home office becoming a health hazard! Working from home can have many benefits. But it can also lead to negative health effects and become costly if we don't take responsibility for the physical work environment. We've gathered facts and tips when…
Stand up and work
A standing mat helps relieve strain when you’re standing. Most people have height-adjustable desks at their office workstations. Despite this, a large percentage (about 80%) still sit down to work. The likely reason for this is that people…
Every other employee has a sedentary job
Almost every other employee, 48 percent, has a sedentary job. Women are significantly more exposed than men, shows the occupational health company Avonova's survey of nearly 30,000 employees at workplaces across the country. Read more here!
Innovation Day 2019
Last Tuesday was the kickoff meeting for the Innovation Day 2019 project, and the assignment was presented to the Alströmergymnasiet students who are currently in their second year of the Technology Program/Design and Product Development. The idea behind the project is to involve young people, who are the future workforce, in Matting's efforts to think innovatively in product development...