Teaching Movement Education: Foundations for Active Lifestyles will help you develop students’ movement skills, provide them with fun activities that will enable them to be successful in movement, and lay the foundation for healthful habits. It contains numerous tools and developmentally appropriate activities in the four basic movement concepts, along with three sets of lesson plans.
Section 1: Introduction to Movement Education
Chapter 1. History and Philosophy of Movement Education
Chapter 2. Movement Education Framework Content
Chapter 3. Developmentally Appropriate Teaching and Assessment
Chapter 4. Foundation for an Active Lifestyle
Chapter 5. Innovative Teaching Ideas for Movement Education
Chapter 6. Activity Analysis: Application to the Movement Education Framework
Section 2: Teaching Movement Education
Part I: Movement Concept Activities
Chapter 7. Body Activities
Chapter 8. Space Activities
Chapter 9. Effort Activities
Chapter 10. Relationships Activities
Part II: Core Content Area Lessons
Chapter 11. Teaching Educational Games
Chapter 12. Teaching Educational Gymnastics
Chapter 13. Teaching Educational Dance
Karen Weiller Abels, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of North Texas in Denton. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience, including teaching elementary physical education. She has developed and taught many courses at the collegiate level that focus on teacher preparation, particularly in movement education.
Jennifer M. Bridges, PhD, is a professor of kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Services at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan. For more than 20 years she has taught motor development, motor learning, movement fundamentals, and dance to preservice majors in physical education teacher education. She also held the ACSM health fitness specialist certification for 15 years.