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Which of the following teaching strategies would most likely enhance first-grade
students' acquisition and refinement of motor skills? Answer: using verbal cues that
students can repeat during physical activity
Participation in high-intensity sustained activities, such as long-distance running, is
more developmentally appropriate for high school students than elementary students for
primarily which of the following reasons? Answer: Elementary students' aerobic
capacity is limited and less capable of increasing before puberty.
A physical education teacher can best facilitate positive transfer of learning in which of
the following scenarios? Answer: ensuring that students learn how to make a tennis
serve before trying to make an overhand serve in volleyball
Prior to beginning a running unit, a physical education teacher wants to ensure there
are multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their mastery of skill progression
within the unit. In order to collect accurate data that will allow for a strategic, tiered
approach to reteach opportunities, which of the following evaluation approaches would
provide the most accurate account of a student's progress over time? Answer: using a
weekly observational rubric during running activities
A physical education teacher is introducing skipping to kindergarten students. The
teacher verbally introduces the skill, demonstrates it, and then listens as students recall
and describe the relevant movements. Primarily which of the following stages of motor
learning is exhibited as students recall and describe relevant movements? Answer:
cognitive
An elementary school physical education teacher is planning for the coming school
year. In planning ball-throwing activities, the teacher considers the impact of rate limiters
on the distance that students of different ages are able to throw a ball. Which of the
following theories of motor development explains the teacher's age-considered
approach to planning ball-throwing activities? Answer: dynamic systems theory
It is critical for a physical education teacher to understand early adolescent gender
developmental differences when creating lessons with physical activities that require
predominantly which of the following movement qualities? Answer: power and
endurance
Delays in physical development in young children are likely to primarily affect: Answer:
motor learning
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, Which of the following biomechanical concepts causes torque when a person is running
or jogging? Answer: rotary motion
A physical education teacher is helping students create their own movement sequences
to be performed on a gymnastics floor. Some of the students have successfully learned
to perform a cartwheel at an appropriate speed on a straight line. Which of the following
movements would logically follow a cartwheel in the movement sequences students are
creating? Answer: split lean without traveling
Participation in which of the following physical education activities would contribute most
directly to the development of spatial awareness? Answer: High school students
compare movement patterns used in a game of basketball and a game of hockey
a tenth-grade physical education teacher is teaching a lesson on levers. Which of the
following activities would be most appropriate to assign the students in order to assess
knowledge of a third-class lever? Answer: hitting a baseball with a bat
In a middle school tennis class, the teacher notes that a student uses an incorrect ready
position during volleys and has trouble initiating travel and changing direction quickly to
meet the ball. To help the student develop a more efficient ready position, the teacher
should explain which of the following concepts? Answer: keeping the center of mass
within the base of support to maintain stability
As young students begin to demonstrate control kicking a ten-inch rubber ball into a net
target for three repetitions, it would be most appropriate to challenge them in which of
the following ways next? Answer: increasing students' goal for the number of
successful kicks
A physical education teacher working with a group of kindergartens students designs a
lesson to introduce throwing a ball. Which aspects of the skill should the teacher
address first? Answer: learning the basics of the movement
A physical education teacher partners with a local public pool for a fifth-grade swim
lesson. A student who is learning to swim the front crawl is struggling to stay on top of
the water because their feet and legs keep sinking. Which of the following comments
from the teacher would most help the student in this case? Answer: "Look at the bottom
of the pol except when you turn your head for breaths."
Which of the following rule adaptions to a basketball game would be most appropriate
for a teacher to apply when high school students playing the game have a wide range of
basketball-playing skill levels? Answer: The ball must be touched by all players on a
team before the ball is shot.
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SIMPLE | TRUSTED TEST SOLUTIONS!
Which of the following teaching strategies would most likely enhance first-grade
students' acquisition and refinement of motor skills? Answer: using verbal cues that
students can repeat during physical activity
Participation in high-intensity sustained activities, such as long-distance running, is
more developmentally appropriate for high school students than elementary students for
primarily which of the following reasons? Answer: Elementary students' aerobic
capacity is limited and less capable of increasing before puberty.
A physical education teacher can best facilitate positive transfer of learning in which of
the following scenarios? Answer: ensuring that students learn how to make a tennis
serve before trying to make an overhand serve in volleyball
Prior to beginning a running unit, a physical education teacher wants to ensure there
are multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their mastery of skill progression
within the unit. In order to collect accurate data that will allow for a strategic, tiered
approach to reteach opportunities, which of the following evaluation approaches would
provide the most accurate account of a student's progress over time? Answer: using a
weekly observational rubric during running activities
A physical education teacher is introducing skipping to kindergarten students. The
teacher verbally introduces the skill, demonstrates it, and then listens as students recall
and describe the relevant movements. Primarily which of the following stages of motor
learning is exhibited as students recall and describe relevant movements? Answer:
cognitive
An elementary school physical education teacher is planning for the coming school
year. In planning ball-throwing activities, the teacher considers the impact of rate limiters
on the distance that students of different ages are able to throw a ball. Which of the
following theories of motor development explains the teacher's age-considered
approach to planning ball-throwing activities? Answer: dynamic systems theory
It is critical for a physical education teacher to understand early adolescent gender
developmental differences when creating lessons with physical activities that require
predominantly which of the following movement qualities? Answer: power and
endurance
Delays in physical development in young children are likely to primarily affect: Answer:
motor learning
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, Which of the following biomechanical concepts causes torque when a person is running
or jogging? Answer: rotary motion
A physical education teacher is helping students create their own movement sequences
to be performed on a gymnastics floor. Some of the students have successfully learned
to perform a cartwheel at an appropriate speed on a straight line. Which of the following
movements would logically follow a cartwheel in the movement sequences students are
creating? Answer: split lean without traveling
Participation in which of the following physical education activities would contribute most
directly to the development of spatial awareness? Answer: High school students
compare movement patterns used in a game of basketball and a game of hockey
a tenth-grade physical education teacher is teaching a lesson on levers. Which of the
following activities would be most appropriate to assign the students in order to assess
knowledge of a third-class lever? Answer: hitting a baseball with a bat
In a middle school tennis class, the teacher notes that a student uses an incorrect ready
position during volleys and has trouble initiating travel and changing direction quickly to
meet the ball. To help the student develop a more efficient ready position, the teacher
should explain which of the following concepts? Answer: keeping the center of mass
within the base of support to maintain stability
As young students begin to demonstrate control kicking a ten-inch rubber ball into a net
target for three repetitions, it would be most appropriate to challenge them in which of
the following ways next? Answer: increasing students' goal for the number of
successful kicks
A physical education teacher working with a group of kindergartens students designs a
lesson to introduce throwing a ball. Which aspects of the skill should the teacher
address first? Answer: learning the basics of the movement
A physical education teacher partners with a local public pool for a fifth-grade swim
lesson. A student who is learning to swim the front crawl is struggling to stay on top of
the water because their feet and legs keep sinking. Which of the following comments
from the teacher would most help the student in this case? Answer: "Look at the bottom
of the pol except when you turn your head for breaths."
Which of the following rule adaptions to a basketball game would be most appropriate
for a teacher to apply when high school students playing the game have a wide range of
basketball-playing skill levels? Answer: The ball must be touched by all players on a
team before the ball is shot.
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