KP200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deeper Understanding, Codependency, Target Games
7 Dec 2017
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The entire period of childhood can be viewed as a sensitive period for mastering fundamental movement skills: 0-6 years, abc"s, boys and girls need to be engaged in daily active play. Through play and movement, they develop the fundamental movement skills that will provide the foundation for learning fundamental sports skills at older ages. Characteristics of skill themes: females (8-11), males (9-12, children should be converting their fundamental movement skills into fundamental sport skills. Awareness: target games, striking/fielding games, net/wall games, invasion games, an individual that moves with poise, economy and confidence and is engaged and able to perceive many stimuli in their physical surrounding. Walking, running, hopping, leaping, galloping, skipping: nonmanipulative chasing, fleeing, dodging, bending, stretching, twisting, manipulative kicking, throwing, catching, striking, space awareness (location, 9-12: movement concepts, space awareness (where the body moves, effort (how body moves, relationships (of body parts, objects, people, the wheel describes how skill themes and movement concepts interact with one another.
