KP100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Motor Skill, Participaction, Formative Assessment
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@ 7:00am in theater auditorium - monday oct, 23. Tutorials: intro, hop and jump, throw and catch, striking and kicking. Make sure you know authors and reading details. Play is recognized as a right of every child. Recognized by the united nations high commission for human rights. Play is the spontaneous activity in which children engage to amuse and to occupy themselves. A way children optimize their own brain development. (- burdette & whitaker, 2005. ) Is often freely chosen, personally directed, intrinsically motivated, spontaneous, pleasurable . Anything that gets motor activity active in a child. Emotional, social, physical, development of language, spatial awareness etc. Allowing children to be physical without them thinking they are being bad. They need to play with them: give their children space to figure out the world on their own. A playful context, combined with activity that is significantly above rest. : may be done alone or with others. (individual/social)