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Chapter 16

Chapter 16. Space Awareness. Chapter 16 Key Points. One of the three categories of Movement Concepts Refers to where the body moves Fives aspects: Location Direction Levels Pathways Extensions. Space Awareness Movement Concept. Levels Low Medium High Pathways (floor/air)

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Chapter 16

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  1. Chapter 16 Space Awareness

  2. Chapter 16 Key Points • One of the three categories of Movement Concepts • Refers to where the body moves • Fives aspects: • Location • Direction • Levels • Pathways • Extensions

  3. Space Awareness Movement Concept Levels Low Medium High Pathways (floor/air) Straight Curved Zigzag Extensions Large/small Location Self‑space General space Directions Up/down Forward/backward Right/left Clockwise/counterclockwise The Concept of Space Awareness: Where the Body Moves

  4. Movement Concepts in Physical Education Space Awareness (where the body moves)• Location• Directions• Levels• Pathways• Extensions Effort (how the body moves) • Time• Force• Flow Relationships (with whom, or what the body moves) • Of body parts• With objects and/or people• With people

  5. Chapter 16 Key Points • The Wheel • A graphical illustration of the inter-relationship of the Movement Concepts and Skill Themes and their components • Outer ring describes idea • Middle ring gives categories within the idea • Inner ring defines the category components

  6. Movement Analysis Framework: The Wheel

  7. Chapter 16 Key Points • Teaching Space Awareness: • Should be the focus at the beginning of your program to introduce children to the 5 space categories and also to enable students to move safely within the environment • Location concepts are foundation concepts crucial to all future learning • Direction, levels, pathways and extension concepts are taught to children with a focus on: • Understanding terminology and demonstrating the basic concept • Combining space awareness concepts, and/or components within a concept or how concept relates to objects and people

  8. Chapter 16 Key Points • Location Concepts • Self-SpaceThe space the body can move from a given location without traveling • Increases students’ awareness of movement possibilities • Children also build foundation of non-locomotor skills (e.g. twisting, turning, bending) that can be used to develop other concepts and skills

  9. Chapter 16 Key Points • Location Concepts (cont) • General spaceThe space within a room or boundary in which the students can move by traveling safely • Taught after self-space understood • Teaches children to move safely in a various ways and increasing complexity

  10. Chapter 16 Key Points • Direction Concepts • Refers to dimensional possibility in which the body or body parts aim to move (i.e. up/down; right/left;forward/backward; counterclockwise/clockwise) • Levels Concepts • Refers to horizontal levels in space where the body or its parts can move (i.e. High; middle; low)

  11. Chapter 16 Key Points • Pathway Concepts • Refers to imaginary design body makes or that object makes, on the floor, in the air when moving • When children master this concept and gain better control of their travel, they can use e.g. curved pathways to avoid collisions when traveling through general space

  12. Chapter 16 Key Points • Extension Concepts • Refers to both spatial relationship of body parts to entire body and to the size of movements in space • Small movements : body movements done close to body • Large movements: body movement with extremities extended

  13. Chapter 16 Key Points • Some teaching points: • Children find it difficult to learn left/right (directions), pathways and extensions • Wait for children to develop skills related to these concepts before emphasizing them

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