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Movement - Coggle Diagram
Movement
Example of jump
Jumping Animals
Broad Jump
Jump Bump
Jumping Down
High Jump
Hoop Jump
Jack Be Nimble Jumps
Jump the Shot
Jumpscotch
Jump Up
Why Teach Movement?
• Daily movement is an important part of a child’s educational experience.
• improve a child’s fitness, in both health-related and skill-related areas.
• build fundamental motor skills like running, jumping, or skipping.
• aid developmental growth.
• increase awareness of the body in space.
• reinforce a good self-concept through participation in success-oriented tasks.
• enhance language skills.
• strengthen social skills.
• encourage expressive/imitative thought and problem-solving.
Set-up for Balancing Stations
Station 3: Balance Blocks
Station 4: Beam
Station 2: Balance Boards
Station 5: Hoop on Beam
Station 1: Walking Cans
Station 6: Pathways -
Balance
The ability to maintain and control body position while in place or moving.
Helps children better perform certain motor skills and enjoy movement.
Children develop balance from infancy until that ability stabilizes around the age of 10 or 11 years.
Balance development follows a logical progression from simple to complex: from balancing in place (static balance) to balancing while moving (dynamic balance); from balancing independently to balancing with other objects; and from balancing on stable support to balancing on unstable support.
Children should be able to balance independently before they try to balance themselves and small objects such as bean bags and rubber rings.
Movement Concepts
Body
Body movements can be locomotor such as running, jumps, or hops.
Other body movements are non-locomotor, continual movement such as bending or stretching.
Manipulative body movements use another object, such as a ball, and an action, such as throwing or catching.
Effort
Describes how the movement is done.
Effort can be described using time (fast or slow), the amount of force (strong or light), or the flow of the movement (stoppable or ongoing).
Space
Describes where the movement takes place.
Spatial concepts can be defined by direction (forward, backward, sideways), by level (high, middle, or low), or path-ways taken (straight, curves, zigzag).
Relationship
Describes the interaction between persons or objects in the environment.
Examples would be tossing a ball to someone, crawling under a chair.