Now you can teach or coach gymnastics—even if you don't have a gymnastics background—and ensure that every child learns and succeeds. 
Teaching FUNdamental Gymnastics Skills is a hands-on guide that provides you with a strong foundation in exploratory gymnastic skills as well as formal gymnastic skills and helps you bridge the gap between the two approaches. 
A unique feature of Teaching FUNdamental Gymnastics Skills is the use of specific verbal cues for different learning styles. You'll get “kinder” cues appropriate for young learners, plus cues that address these learning styles:
- logical/mathematical - visual/spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - musical/rhythmical - verbal/linguistic
The book covers these essential teaching topics:
- Foundational positions and movements that form the building blocks for all gymnastics skills - How fundamental skills fit together to make complex movements and sequences - Common errors in gymnastics skills and how to correct them - Hard-to-find safety information, including injury prevention and tips for spotting
This well-organized book also covers skill progressions and lead-ups for floor, beam, springboard/vault, and bars. Each skill includes practical information you can use for individual or small-group work at stations: a complete description, common errors, spotting information and checklists. 
Additional special features include the following:
- A movement chart, in each chapter, outlines the skill progressions - Sequential illustrations clarify skill sequences and progressions - A skillfinder chart makes it easy to find skill descriptions based on level of difficulty
Learn how to deliver effective and safe gymnastics instruction in an educational setting, no matter what your experience or comfort level. Teaching FUNdamental Gymnastics Skills is a great way to get started in teaching gymnastics, build students' confidence, and introduce fun programs.

Teaching FUNdamental Gymnastics Skills

Sports & Outdoors

Davis, Barbara

Mitchell, Debby

Lopez, Raim

Individual Sports

Human Kinetics

Kids love to move—and it’s proven that children learn academic concepts better when those concepts are combined with music and movement. So Debby Mitchell created a book and DVD package that includes video clips that combine learning with music and movement. The DVD also includes reproducible assessments, lyrics, and posters that can be used in the classroom to facilitate learning. 
Learning Through Movement and Music: Exercise Your Smarts gets upper-elementary and middle school students moving while teaching them about their bodies, health and fitness concepts, and assessment of their fitness abilities. The book and DVD include 
 • background information and song lyrics for each activity; 
 • video clips that introduce each of the 14 activities; 
 • lyrics to use as handouts; 
 • posters for many of the concepts that can be used in the classroom; and 
 • activity assessments (including questions and answers, flow charts, word searches, and crossword puzzles) and teacher answer keys. 
 The DVD contains posters that reinforce the health and fitness concepts as well as the song lyrics and assessments, which you can reproduce. You can distribute the song lyrics to your students, helping them to learn the concepts. The activities are a great blend of movement and academic concepts and are suited for use in both PE classes and regular classrooms. 
 The activities themselves cover warming up, stretching, muscle identification and workouts, cardio and interval training, fitness testing, the FITT principle, and cooling down. 
Learning Through Movement and Music enlightens students on the benefits, guidelines, and reasons for exercise and fitness in the environment in which they most love to learn: one where they are moving and having fun!

Learning Through Movement and Music: Exercise Your Smarts

Health, Fitness & Dieting

GeoMotion Group, Inc.

Exercise & Fitness

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