Figure 3: Inquiry Components in the Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts and Strategies Strand Long Description

Figure three includes two diagram sections. Section one is a horizontal image of three headers.  Header One reads “What/How (Movement Skills and concepts)” plus sign Header Two “Why/When (Movement Strategists)” equal sign Header Three “Movement Competence”.

Section Two displays 4 boxes, each box presented as an extension of a particular header from Section One.

Box One is an extension of Header One “What/How (Movement Skills and concepts” and lists three “Skills”.

  • Skill One: Stability: with static balance, in which the body remains in place but moves around its horizontal or or vertical axis, and stability with dynamic balance, in which core strength is used to maintain balance and control of the body while moving through space (e.g. bending, stretching, twisting, turning, following, balancing, transferring weight, curling up, landing from a jump)
  • Skill Two: Locomotion or traveling skills: used to move the body from one point to another (e.g. walking, wheeling, running, skipping, hoping, chasing, dodging) 
  • Skill Three: Manipulation skills: which involve giving force to the object or receiving force from the object (e.g. throwing, catching, trapping, collecting, kicking, punting, dribbling, carrying, volleying, striking)

Box Two is an extension of Header One “What/How (Movement Skills and concepts” and lists four “Concepts”.

  • Concept One: Body Awareness: What parts of teh body move and in what way? Awareness of body parts, shares and actions (e.g. wide, narrow, twisted, symmetrical, curled, stretched)
  • Concept Two: Spatial Awareness: Where does the body move? (e.g. location, direction, level, pathway, plane, extensions)
  • Concept Three: Effort Awareness: How does the body move? (e.g. fast or slow, with strong or light force, bound or free)
  • Concept Four: Relationships: With whom or with what does the body move? (e.g. with people or objects, or in a particular environment)

Box Three is a highlighted box that is an extension of Header Two “Why/When (Movement Strategists)” that lists five movement skills that encompass the six Inquiry Components.

  • Movement Skill One: Activity Appreciation: learning about games, activity structure, rules, and skills through participation in activities, modified as needed.
  • Movement Skill Two: Tactical Awareness: Developing understanding of the principles of play or participation common to similar activities.
  • Movement Skill Three: Decision Making: Learning to make decision about what to do and how to do it in different situations.
  • Movement Skill Four: Application of skills: developing understanding of what skills are required to improved proficiency and how to apply those skills while participating in activities.
  • Movement Skill Five: Performance: Demonstration skills, techniques and tactics in activities or demonstrations.

Box Four is an extension of Header One “What/How (Movement Skills and concepts” and is an extension of Box Two, ”Concepts” and presents two “Movement Principles”.

  • Principle One: Centre of Gravity: Stability increases as the centre of gravity becomes lower, the base of support becomes larger, the line of gravity moves nearer to the centre of the base of support, and the mass become greater.
  • Principle Two: Laws of Matter and Force: Summation of Joints: the production of maximum force requires the use of all the joints that can be used.
  • Maximum Velocity: the product of maximum velocity requires the use of joints in order, from largest to smallest. Applied Impulse: The greater the applied impulse, the greater the increase in velocity. Law of Reaction: Movement usually occurs in the direction opposite that of the applied force.

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