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SUNY CORTLAND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT LAB

PED 201 – Professor Yang

Stability:  Lab One

Name: Devon Howard___________________________________                         Date: Sept 17 2011______________        Lab Group Day and #: __________

Tasks

A. To observe the interaction between St. Mary’s students and Cortland students.

B. To get to “know” some of the students at St. Mary’s through play and participation.

C. To make yourself aware of Stability (static and dynamic movements) across the different phases of motor development (Table 1.6, page 21 of Gallahue text)

TODAY IS FAIRLY INFORMAL! Have fun but be purposeful, try to learn a little about your students including their names.

Schedule:        

PREK CLASSROOM

* Assigned group stays with Pre-K for entire time

  1. Play with kids – parachute activities
  2. Fine Motor Activities (coloring, books, story time, etc.)
  3. Tag Games from Adventure Activities
  4. Tag games from Text  

CAFETERIA 

  1. Fine motor activity (finger twister, coloring, etc.)
  2. Observation of fine motor activity (eating, coloring, etc.)
  3. Tag Games from Adventure Activities
  4. Tag games from Text

GYM

  1. Tag Games from Adventure Activities
  2. Tag games from Text

RESOURCES

  1. Organize PE equipment rooms, ball bins, racks
  2. Cut out photos for labeling equipment boxes

        

TASK A – Gross and Fine Motor Observation:  Please answer the following questions, all responses must be typed:

Observe the interaction between St. Mary’s students and your peers (Cortland students).  Try to get an idea of the behaviors of the St. Mary’s students – Do they listen well? Do they remain on task? What do they attend to?  What motivates them to play?

1. Based upon observation, what are the differences in motor behavior and  social between the St. Mary’s students you observed?  What differences did you observe between grade levels, gender, and ability?  Do you think that grade level, gender, and ability have any influence on motor behavior?

        Grade level, gender and ability all have a huge impact on motor behavior. I noticed that the younger kid’s abilities were not as high as the older kids. Boy’s participation and skill level was higher in the group activities and small games. When we played the game with the foam noodles where the group had to jump over the imaginary rope or duck under, the boys participation was much greater. Although most of the girls jump rope abilities were fantastic! One girl jump roped about 60 times without stopping!

2.  Based upon your observation, what fine motor activities did you observe (describe these) when watching the St. Mary’s students?  Were there differences between age?  Gender? Ability?  

        Based on my observation, not many fine motor skills were observed. My group was organizing the storage rooms but we participated in most games and free played at the end. At the end, I played basketball with this boy named Connor who was good. He was older than most of the other kids but had great skills.   Throughout the class I noticed many gross locomotor movement skills though. Running, walking, jumping, leaping, tagging, hopping, etc.