Recognizing Indiv. Differences, Encouraging Pro-Social Behavior, and History of Games/Sports/Other Flashcards
How to recognize individual differences between boys and girls
girls- develop fine motor skills earlier than boys, like writing
boys- develop gross motor earlier. boys also have more muscle mass, particularly after puberty (NO SHITE!)
What to do with cultural differences…
consider personal and cultural differences in sports, use sports as a way to teach students about history and other cultures.
-learning new sports that they may not be familar with
How can you ultilize sports to teach pro-social behavior
-allowing a student to officiate a small ports activity can teach LEADERSHIP. Teach fairness and including others.
-Activities such as the “human knot” can teach COLLABORATIVE problem solving and safety.They have to work together. Also coach them to not injure each other
-lessons on safety
-awareness of others bodies.
Also games like volley ball teach kids to work together.
How can you teach PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY in PE?
-Caring for class sports equipment
Mob football?
Medieval times in Europe, they would inflate pig bladder or pig skin, and one town would put in on another towns side, and the other town would try to stop them. Tackle, take it away, passing, blocking, running, etc.
What are Early forms of “football” games?
Rugby, Soccer (in latin America, what they call football is what we called soccer. The reason for this is because they were played on foot, not on horseback like aristocrats) , and American football.
Baseball is similar to which old English games?
English game of rounders
also shares similarities to the modern game of cricket
-the first baseball games following modern rules were played in the US during the mid to late 1800’s.
What even in US history led to the widespread popularity of baseball?
Civil War 1861-1865. Soldiers were waiting. They needed a game to play to entertain selves. As they moved locations, they spread the game.
Basketball history
- invited in 1891 in Springfield Massachusetts by James Naismith, who was asked to create a team sport that could be played INDOORS during the winter.
- Started out with an actual basket (they would actually have to fish it out way up high)
