ANDROMEDDA LINAZAN

BSSW 1
ASSIGNMENT PATHFIT

1. What is Movement?
- A skill/theme approach is central to programming throughout the grades, progressing
from fundamental movement skills in the Early Years to selected or activity-specific
movement skills in the Middle and Senior Years. Basic movement skills are the
foundation for participation in all physical activities and are required for participation
in many lifetime physical activities/sports. Physical activities/sports are a means of
developing fundamental movement skills, which can vary depending on the context
(e.g., the overhand throwing pattern looks different in baseball, football, or tennis
serve). The underlying principles, however, will be similar. The fundamental
movement. Across the grades, skills guide teaching, learning, assessment, and
reporting.

2. What are the Movement Experiences?

- Movement experiences are presented through specific problems that children can
solve by using their bodies in a variety of ways. The problems can be solved
individually, by partners, or by small and large groups. After an introduction to
movement education, six parts focus on: (1) "Language Arts Problems" (e.g., the
alphabet, reading readiness, rhyming, spelling, stories, poems, and emotions); (2)
"Mathematics Problems" (e.g., math readiness, numbers, counting, computation,
measurement, and geometric shapes); (3) "Science Problems" (e.g., the body, the five
senses, seasons, weather plants, animals, machines, electricity, magnets, and gravity);
(4) "Social Studies Problems" (e.g., occupations, transportation, customs and cultures,
holidays, physical environment, natural resources, and government); and (5) "Art
Problems" (color, materials and textures, and symmetry and asymmetry). (Contains
approximately 225 bibliographic references.) (SM)