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Provide the knowledge base to understand motor skill development across the lifespan. Examines the dynamic interaction between cognitive, social, and perceptual motor development in the overall motor development of children, emphasizing observing and analyzing the movement behavior and performance of children with application to developmentally appropriate movement experiences.

Scholarship:1. Through exams and quizzes students will demonstrate the ability to identify and describe theoretical concepts underlying motor skill development. (NCATE/NASPE 1.3)2. Through exams and quizzes students will demonstrate the ability to discuss the dynamic relationship among individual, task and environmental constraints in the emergence of motor development (NCATE/NASPE 1.3)3. Through completion of assignments and analysis papers students will demonstrate the ability to analyze tasks (games and activities) as a function of the dynamic relationship among the individual, task and environmental constraints (NCATE/NASPE 1.3)4. Through completion of assignments and analysis papers students will demonstrate the ability to analyze the cognitive and perceptual motor abilities challenged in an activity and identify the critical elements needed for participation (NCATE/NASPE 1.2,1.5)5. Through exams and assignments students will demonstrate the ability to analyze motor behaviors in infants and children reflecting critical elements of developmental stages (NCATE/NASPE 1.5, 1.1)6. Through writing assignments and activities, students will demonstrate the ability to organize thoughts and communicate them through written expression.

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