Physical Education Flashcards
Body awareness
Understanding how your body moves, mechanics of motion and one’s individual abilities.
Improved body awareness means improved awareness of coordination.
Example: kids run with their arms out thinking they will fly.
Space awareness
Understanding the physical environment and how other people move in that spance and how aware you are of them
Based on angle and speed
Example: a child is not always aware of space when first learning how to catch a ball
Movement exploration
The idea of participating in physical activity, seeing how we/others move
Develops sense of spacial awareness
Locomotor movement
Change of location; running, skipping, jumping
non-locomotor
movements or balancing exercises (location doesn’t change)
Example: balance beam, ring exercises
Object manipulation skills
Precise movements to effectively catch, throw, swing
Combined fine and gross motor
Fine motor skills
Fine, detailed movements
Gross motor skills
Large movements
Biomechanics
Mechanical principles to living things (joints, muscles, Ligaments, tendons, energy)
Types of joints
Hinge (one fixed path movement)
Ball and socket/pivot (lots of different directions)
Types of muscle
Fast twitch – anaerobic activities – explosive movements (Sprint, bench pressing)
Slow twitch – aerobic activities (jogging, biking)
Role of ligaments
Attach bones to bones
Role of tendons
Connect Muscles to bone
Biomechanics of movement are influenced by 3 external factors
Gravity – pushing upward against things so it is more difficult
Friction – running in a swimming pool is more difficult than jogging because the water is denser
Newtons law of motion – inertia – objects in motion want to stay in motion unless they’re acting upon an a net force
Adaptive physical activity
Modified so every student can participate despite ability
