Movement Discovery: Physical Education for Children5 Stars! Doody's Book Review Creative, challenging, and interesting physical education lessons in pre-schools and elementary schools are essential. Movement Discovery: Physical Education for Children is designed to change traditional thinking in physical education and bring a breath of fresh air to movement lessons. Written to help early childhood and elementary school teachers value simple, strenuous, and enjoyable activity, this text provides the foundation they'll need to give such experiences to young children. This text includes: background information to provide an understanding of why programs are as they are information about child development and skill development to give guidance to teachers material to start an on-going Movement Discovery program that capitalizes on the innate human urge to discover ones' physical capacities and enjoy them Movement Discovery encourages teachers to provide challenging yet gratifying physical education lessons. If students can derive satisfaction in their increase in skill, and if these skills have a link with their future education and the world in which they live, there is a good possibility that activity will continue throughout life. |
Contents
1 Discovering Roots | 1 |
2 Discovering Differences | 11 |
3 Discovering Capacity | 23 |
4 Discovering Movement Discovery | 33 |
5 Introducing the Movement Discovery Approach | 59 |
6 Discovering Developmental Games and Presport Games | 85 |
7 Sample Developmental Games and Sports Lessons Using the Discovery Approach | 117 |
8 Discovering Creative Dance and Expressive Movement | 143 |
11 Sample Lessons and Short Unit Plans in Educational Gymnastics | 207 |
Adaptations and Modifications | 255 |
Conclusion | 279 |
Additional Historical Roots | 281 |
Anecdotes | 287 |
Teacher Education National Standards | 293 |
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9 Sample Creative DanceExpressive Movement Lessons | 161 |
10 Discovering Educational Gymnastics | 181 |
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Movement Discovery: Physical Education for Children Andrea Boucher,Evelyn Wiseman No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
30 minutes NASPE action adults Allow Children Anecdote Appropriate grade level assessment badminton balance ball bean bag behavior bench body bounce challenges chil child Children to Discover choose classroom climbing creative dance creative movement Cues/Points curling Discovery program dren Encourage experience floor girls goal grades Lesson length hands and feet high jump hoops ical ideas Invent jump ropes kick large apparatus learning legs LESSON MATERIALS line dance mats ment Minutes Approximately minutes NASPE Standards motor learning move Movement Discovery OBJECTIVES The learner observe partner pathways percussion instruments performance physical activity piece of apparatus players playing area position practice puck Repeat responses roll score Scripted Movement Tasks sequence shapes side sideways skills small equipment soccer space speed stick stop stretch suggested swinging teaching tion track and field variety wall weight young children