Rae Pica

Early Elementary Children: Moving & Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum [With CD (Audio)]

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Produktbeschreibung

Physical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning provides more than 100 developmentally appropriate activities that contribute to a well-rounded curriculum in any classroom or programme.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Redleaf Press
• Seitenzahl: 181
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 211mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781605542690
• ISBN-10: 1605542695
• Artikelnr.: 39410036

Autorenporträt

Rae Pica is an education consultant dedicated to the development and education of the whole child. A former adjunct instructor at the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of 20 books, including the Moving & Learning series, the textbook Experiences in Movement and Music, and What If Everybody Understood Child Development?: Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children's Lives. A popular keynote speaker, Rae also offers online courses and has shared her expertise with such groups as the Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Bright Horizons, the Centers for Disease Control, and schools, resource and referral agencies, and health departments throughout the country.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Curriculum Connectors Chart
Song List
Preface
Introduction
Benefits of Moving & Learning
Implementing the Program
Early Elementary Children: Developmental Considerations
Unit 1 Openers and Closers
This section consists of the "quieter" activities-those involving isolated
body parts, such as the hands, face, arms, or legs, and specific relaxation
exercises. Choose these activities to psychologically and physically
prepare your students to begin or end their movement classes-or any time a
less vigorous activity is called for.
Unit 2 Basic Movement
These activities explore the fundamental locomotor and nonlocomotor skills
and the movement elements of space, shape, time, force, and flow. They form
the foundation of a child-centered physical education program and provide
the basic knowledge essential to the next three categories.
Unit 3 Cooperative Activities
The activities in this section serve three purposes: 1) They offer the
students opportunities to work cooperatively with partners and in small and
large groups. 2) They provide greater challenge, beyond what the children
experience in Unit 2. 3) These activities can physically and emotionally
prepare the students to successfully work together in those educational
gymnastics and rhythm and dance activities requiring participation in pairs
or groups.
Unit 4 Educational Gymnastics
Included in this section are activities related to the gymnastic skills of
transferring weight, rolling, and balancing. The exploration of
combinations of locomotor and nonlocomotor skills are also included in this
unit, as gymnastics typically involves the sequencing of movement skills.
Unit 5 Rhythm and Dance
The movement element of rhythm, the musical concepts of beat and meter, and
the qualities of swinging, sustained, suspended, percussive, vibratory, and
collapsing movement are explored in this unit. The Statues activities offer
students the opportunity to improvise and express themselves to a variety
of music, and the Movement Words activities provide a chance for students
to perform combinations of skills in interpretive and expressive ways. All
of the activities in this unit prepare children for dance experiences in
the upper elementary grades.
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