Educational Gymnastics - Rowan University



Educational Gymnastics

Definition: Educational Gymnastics is a component of an elementary physical education curriculum that emphasizes learning body management skills and problem solving through applying the movement framework. Student learning is individualized and assessment is based on task accomplishments demonstrating creativity, effort and skill development

Objectives:

As a result of participating in an educational gymnastic lesson or unit a student will:

• Increase body coordination.

• Develop health related fitness components; strength, strength endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance.

• Increase body and spatial awareness.

• Develop and perform a sequence of movements.

• Experience success through skill acquisition.

• Learn to set goals.

• Learn to cooperate with others to accomplish a task

• Learn to gain and maintain static and dynamic balances using different body parts, shapes and bases of support.

• Learn the skills and knowledge to be able to rotate the body on a vertical, horizontal and transverse axis.

• Learn to transfer weight from one body part to another, using traveling movements, rolling, and flight movements.

• Learn to suspend their body using hanging movements and shapes.

• Demonstrate traveling, rotation, hanging and balance movements and shapes using different pieces of equipment.

• Perform rotation, balance, hanging and traveling movements and shapes individually and in relationship to others.

Content

Balance

The ability of the body to gain and maintain stability while holding a shape and equilibrium while moving. Balance content includes – Static and dynamic, body parts, shapes, levels counter balance and counter tension

Skills

Upright balances.

Inverted balances.

Balances using different body shapes, straight, twisted, curled, symmetrical and asymmetrical balances

Balances using different body parts as a base of support.

Balances using counter-tension and counter-balance shapes and movements.

Performing balance sequences.

Loosing and recovery of balance.

Maintaining dynamic balance while traveling on or off equipment.

Acquiring balance when stopping a traveling movement.

Knowledge

Knowledge of how to gain and maintain stillness in a balance.

Knowledge of what is a base of support and the different types.

Knowledge of how the body’s center of gravity affects balance.

Knowledge of counter tension and counter-balance.

Rotation

The ability of the body to move around the three axes of the body, horizontal, vertical and transverse using different body parts, directions and tempo.

Skills

Rocking on different body parts using different directions and different speeds.

Log or pencil roll.

Egg or ball roll.

Forward roll.

Shoulder roll.

Backward roll (optional).

Rolls using different starting and ending shapes (eg. pike, straddle, squat).

Twisting movements of various body parts.

Turns on different body parts using various amounts of rotations (eg. ¼, ½, ¾ or full turns).

Cartwheel, Roundoff (optional)

Sequences of rotary movements.

Knowledge

Knowledge of the safe and correct techniques for performing rotation skills.

Knowledge of how to increase and decrease the speed of the rotation.

Understanding of how focus of the eyes and body is used in rotation.

Hanging

The ability to suspend the body from a piece of equipment.

Skills

Hanging using different body parts and combinations of body parts.

Hanging using different shapes.

Inverted hanging.

Upright hanging.

Hanging and turning.

Hanging while climbing.

Hanging movements sequences.

Hanging using different hand grips.

Hanging and swinging.

Knowledge

Knowledge of how to use control while moving in and out of a hanging position.

Knowledge of how to maintain stillness in a hang and how to initiate a swinging hang.

Knowledge of different body parts that can be used for hanging.

Traveling Movements

The ability to move from one space to another while using different body parts, in space, with time, force and flow.

Skills

Using different body parts to move in space while using different directions, range, levels, pathways and different speeds and amounts of force (eg. animal walks, crawling).

Performing flight movements that move the body into the air from the floor or off a piece of equipment. Skills include, take off and landing, vaulting using hands to move over a piece of equipment and shapes while in flight.

Sequences of traveling movements.

Knowledge

Understanding of how to land safely from a flight movement.

Understanding of how to increase height and distance in flight.

Knowledge of different body parts that can be used to travel in space.

Knowledge of how to vary traveling movements using the elements of space, time and force.

Grade Level Benchmarks

Kindergarten and First Grade

Skills

Maintain a still balance using different body parts.

Maintain a still balance using different body shapes.

Perform a log roll, egg roll.

Perform a turn using different body parts.

Travel on feet using different directions, speed, size of steps, levels, pathways, and force. Movements include, walk, jump, hop, gallop, skip and run.

Traveling using different body parts.

Hang using hands.

Twisting movements of various body parts.

Acquiring balance when stopping a traveling movement.

Knowledge

Demonstrate knowledge of what body parts can be used in a balance.

Demonstrate understanding of how to maintain control in a balance.

Understand the difference between turning and twisting.

Knowledge of how to use control while moving in and out of a hang position.

Knowledge of different body parts that can be used to for traveling movements.

Second and Third Grade

Skills

Rolls using different starting and ending shapes (eg. pike, straddle, squat).

Leaping.

Learn to perform a cartwheel (a roundoff is optional).

Learn the forward roll and shoulder roll (a backward roll is optional).

Hang using different body parts.

Hanging and swinging.

Create and perform sequences of hanging.

Create and perform sequences of rolls.

Create and perform sequences of balances.

Creating and performing sequences of traveling movements.

Performing flight movements that move the body into the air from the floor or off a piece of equipment. Skills include, take off and landing, vaulting using hands to move over a piece of equipment, shapes in flight.

Maintaining equilibrium while traveling on or off equipment.

Knowledge

Knowledge of the safe and correct techniques for performing rotation skills.

Knowledge of how to increase and decrease the speed of the rotation.

Understanding of how focus of the eyes and body while using rotation.

Knowledge of how to maintain stillness in a hang and how to initiate a swinging hang.

Knowledge of different body parts that can be used for a hang.

Understanding of how to land safely from a flight movement.

Knowledge of how to vary traveling movements using the elements of space, time and force.

Fourth and Fifth Grade

Skills

Hanging using different hand grips.

Balances using counter-tension and counter balance with equipment and with others.

Performing symmetrical and asymmetrical balances.

Performing flight movements that move the body into the air from the floor or off a piece of equipment. Skills include, take off and landing, vaulting using hands to move over a piece of equipment, shapes in flight.

Create combinations of rotary actions, balances and traveling and hanging.

Lose and recovery of balance.

Knowledge

Understanding how to increase height and distance in flight.

Knowledge of how to vary traveling movements using the elements of space, time and force.

Knowledge of the term “base of support” and how to balance using different bases of support.

Assessment

Teacher assessment of students skills.

Teacher assessment of students knowledge

Self assessment that reflects feelings about accomplishments

Peer assessment of skills.

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