How are breaks during educational times beneficial to all students? Additionally, how does Universal Design for Learning benefit students' learning? This goal is important because it allows teachers to further their knowledge on what types of teaching styles and break methods benefit their students the most, in terms of retention and processing information. My project investigates previously written research from both educational and scientific backgrounds to merge these ideas together. This allows for many perspectives to be covered, which will provide new knowledge on how cognitive functions and education directly affect each other. I used data from previous research related to the impact of UDL and how breaks impact learning and retention. My project is a literature review, so for this, I found credible sources that discussed UDL and then later how breaks impacted learning. This research is important because it will help educators have an outline on how they can structure their breaks so that they benefit their students. Since this is only a literary review, the hope is to work with schools and try different types of breaks for a variety of grades, to see the overall impact.
