Questions and Answers
1. Body Awareness: Proprioception, which is how the body senses the parts of itself.
2. Shape: how the body can form different shapes
3. Balance: balance in the body, how you body can balance on one foot
4. Quality: concept of speed, contrast, force and relaxation
5. Space: space with others
6. Exploring: concept of moving over, under, around and through and leading with certain body
parts.
7. Locomotor Skills: are basic movement skills that are performed in different directions
and at different speeds. Ex- walking running, jumping, galloping and sliding.
8. Nonlocomotor Skills: passive movements performed while standing still. Ex-stretching,
twisting, pushing
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, 9. Object Manipulation Skills: Complex motor patterns that are basic to specialized sports and
performed with an object. Ex- throwing, catching, kicking, striking
10. Biomechanics: contributes to the explanation and prediction of the mechanical
characteristics of movement, exercise, play and sports.
11. Newton's first law: when an object is in motion, it will remain in motion until there is
an outside force that acts upon it.
12. Newtons second law: the relationship between an objects mass, acceleration, and
applied force.
13. Newtons third law: if one object excerpts a force on a second object, the second
object exerts an equal force on the first object but in a ditterent direction.
14. Gravity: the point at which the mass of the body is equally distributed. During movement
the body adjusts to maintain its stability.
15. Friction: the resistance of motion of two moving objects. Ex-ball on grass moves slower
than ball on asphalt.
16. Muscular strength: amount of force exerted with muscles. Upper grades will require
strength for certain sports
17. Endurance: the ability to sustain physical ettort for long periods of time.
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