Jumping and Landing

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Chapter 21

• Jumping and Landing

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Jumping
• A locomotor pattern in which the body propels
  itself off the floor or apparatus into the
  momentary period of flight
• Is performed for two reasons
• For height
• For distance
• Many activities in games, dance or gymnastics
  require children to effectively jump for height
  and/or distance
• Preschool children are developmentally capable of
  performing a variety of jumping actions and they
  do it because they ENJOY IT!

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Fundamental Jumping and Landing Pattern

• Two-foot takeoff to a one-foot landing
• Two-foot takeoff to a two-foot landing
• One-foot takeoff to a landing on the same foot
  (hop)
• One-foot takeoff to a landing on the other foot
  (leap)
• One-foot takeoff to a two-foot landing

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Teaching Jumping and Landing
• Build on young childrens natural fascination by
  providing learning experiences that can lead
  toward their developing mature patterns of
  jumping and landing necessary for successful
  participation
• Progression spiral suggests a sequence of tasks
• Children should think of jumping as three phases
• Take-off
• Flight
• Landing

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Teaching Jumping and Landing (cont)
• Precontrol Level Tasks
• Involve children in exploration activities e.g.
  jumping for fun, for height and/or distance,
  jumping a rope and jumping and landing in
  different patterns
• Control Level Tasks
• Children need opportunities to perform basic
  jumping variations with an emphasis on vigorous
  takeoffs, variations in flight and controlled
  landing

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Teaching Jumping and Landing (cont)
• Utilization Level Tasks
• Presented when children demonstrate mature
  pattern in jumping and landing and can involve
  objects or more complex variations of the skill
• Involve the combination with other movements,
  complicated rhythms or while manipulating objects
  

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Teaching Jumping and Landing (cont)
• Proficiency Level Tasks
• Tasks encourage children to jump high and far
  enough to carry out complex maneuver
• Tasks also encourage the use and refining of
  jumping and landing patterns for creative and
  functional purposes

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Chapter 21 Key Points

• Teaching Jumping and Landing (cont)
• Activities found in text.
• Identifies Tasks
• Identifies Challenges
• Assessment ideas found throughout chapter.

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Progression Spiral for Developing the Skill Theme
of Jumping and Landing  

• PROFICIENCY LEVEL
• Hurdling jumps
• Jumping, dancing, and imagery
• Jumping as part of a dance creation
• Jumping with a springboard
• Jumping with a partner to match actions
• Jumping with a partner to mirror actions
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• UTILIZATION LEVEL
• Jumping to an accented beat
• Throwing and catching while jumping
• Jumping on a bench
• Jumping to throw
• Jumping to catch
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• CONTROL LEVEL
• Jumping and landing task sheets
• Jump, Squash, TaDa
• Jumping on and off equipment using buoyant and
  yielding landings