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Lesson Plan should include - ANSWER ✔✔-warm up
-instruction
-activity
-feedback
Gross motor skills - ANSWER ✔✔Abilities required to control large
movements of the arms, legs, and feet, or the whole body
-k-2
,- these develop before fine motor skills
EX: running, jumping, climbing, and throwing.
Biomechanical principle - ANSWER ✔✔-the forces governing the
interaction of the body with the natural universe
-k-2
-center of gravity
-these include ball handling related concepts of force projection and
force absorption
Locomotor Skills - ANSWER ✔✔-kindergarten
movements that require location change.
-Ex:hopping, skipping, leaping, and jumping
Nonlocomotor skills - ANSWER ✔✔Movements such as balancing,
twisting, stretching, pushing, bending, performed WITHOUT movement
from place to place. Also practice balancing by walking in groups and not
bumping in to one another.---kindergarten
Kindergarten - ANSWER ✔✔working on balancing, practicing
nonlocomotor skills (bending, stretching, twisting, not bumping in to
eachother)
,working on locomotor skills (running, jumping, skipping)
can be encouraged to strike a ball, with any part of the body but the
head
can throw and kick, not skilled at catching
(grade)
first graders - ANSWER ✔✔improving catching abilities as well as
throwing and kicking
improving spatial awareness, can engage in movement exploration with
responses to faster, slower, over, under, behind, through
(grade)
second graders - ANSWER ✔✔can change direction quickly and
safely
move backwards without falling
skilled at jumping and jumping rope
mastered all basic locomotor skills
adept at throwing a ball overhand, with side orientation
understand and demonstrate principle of opposition
(Grade)
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, spatial awareness - ANSWER ✔✔perceptions of where the body is
Principle of opposition - ANSWER ✔✔Muscle balance developed by
exercising "paired muscles"
fine motor skills - ANSWER ✔✔Skills that involve the smaller muscles
of the body
-EX: such as those in the fingers where small, precise movements, such
as using scissors or writing, are required
improve dramatically in middle grades 3-5
third graders - ANSWER ✔✔mastered gross motor skills
can dribble a ball with hands or feet
begin to combine locomotor and non locomotor skills in relation to
dancing
understand body positions, such as low middle high, to learn stretches
(grade)
fourth grade - ANSWER ✔✔can leap off either foot
can jump for height or distance
can dribble a ball with hand for feet while moving within a
group(basketball, soccer)