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Teaching a skill can be difficult, there are a lot of things to consider. You have to consider the strategies to engage your audience, as we make sure you know the content and the skills you're teaching. On top of all of that, you also have to ensure you know the developmental stage of your learners, and you have to be ready to provide continuous feedback.

This is the dropbox icon. Assignment 1: You become the teacher!

As you have learned over the course of the past 2 units, all the domains of development and learning—physical, social, emotional, and cognitive—are important, and they are closely interrelated. Children’s development and learning in one domain influence and are influenced by what takes place in others. You now know that many aspects of children’s learning and development follow well documented sequences, with later abilities, skills, and knowledge building on those already acquired.

Your task is to design a movement-based activity that is appropriate to a particular age and stage of development.

    1. Use the chart below to choose one of the fundamental movement skills, one of the ages and one of the developmental levels. This is a great opportunity to research how teaching students that have some level of delay in their cognitive or physical abilities is addressed.
    2. To begin to plan your activity, first review what you learned about the developmental needs of learners at different age stages by referring to:
      • the factors that affect physical growth and development;
      • the LTAD program you learned about in activity 1;
      • the stages of motor learning in activity 2.

Use this chart to help you organize all the information you need to plan your activity.

  1. Based on the information you have gathered, develop an activity that you will use to teach your chosen skill and provide time for your learner to practice the skill.
  2. Describe modifications that would be made to your activity that would make it suitable for one of the other stages of development.
  3. Determine how you will present your activity. You may choose to submit a recording of you teaching the activity, the activity plan itself, or an oral description of the activity or any other method that reflects your understanding of human growth and motor development and application to skill development.
  4. Include a description of how your activity has been tailored to meet the developmental age and stage of your learners.
Choose one variable from each of the following list to create a profile for your learner:
Fundamental movement skill Age/ Stage of Development Developmental Level
Jump
Kick
Dribble
Overarm throw
Catch
Run
Skip		 0-2
2-6
7-10
11-14
15+		 Age Appropriate

Cognitively Delayed
Physically Delayed/Adaptive population

Here are 3 different examples to help you design and present your own activity.

Resources

Here are a few organizations who create activities to help students develop their physical literacy at various ages and developmental stages. This will get you started on designing your own activity.

  1. CIRA
  2. OPHEA
  3. PHE Canada

Save your activity and description to your Portfolio.

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This is the dropbox icon. Assignment 1: Learning and The Fundamental Principles in Health and Physical Education

Recall the 5 Fundamental Principles in Health and Physical Education that are the foundation for developing physical literacy.

Long Description

Consider all you have learned about human growth and motor development in this unit. Write a brief reflection making connections between fundamental Principle 2, 3 and 4 and your learning in this unit.

Save your reflection to your Portfolio.

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