Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging

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Chapter 20

• Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging

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Chapter 20 Key Points

• Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging
• Have been part of childrens games since ancient
  times
• Form part of many sports that are played today
• These skills can be developed by providing
  challenging tasks and games during physical
  education
• These skills require children to have
• a functional understanding of space awareness
  concepts
• mastered fundamental traveling skills
• Progression Spiral suggests progression of tasks

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Chapter 20 Key Points

• Teaching Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging
• Many children cannot perform the skills
  effectively in dynamic game situations
• Children Moving suggests initially providing
  learning experiences that enable children to
  become capable chasers, fleers and dodgers,
  before putting them into a game situation

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Chapter 20 Key Points

• Teaching Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging (cont)
• Precontrol Level Tasks
• Give children opportunity to explore the skills
  in simple situations
• Control Level Tasks
• Allow children to practice the skills in
  relatively static situations, combining with only
  one other variable

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Chapter 20 Key Points

• Teaching Chasing, Fleeing, and Dodging (cont)
• Utilization Level Tasks
• Presented once children can effectively chase,
  flee and dodge by reacting quickly and accurately
  to others
• Place children in more complex and changing
  situations (e.g. games or complex tasks)
• Proficiency Level Tasks
• Involve activities where children used skills
  effectively in a wide variety of game contexts
  (e.g. dodging players in football-type game)

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Chapter 20 Key Points

• Teaching Chasing, Fleeing and Dodging (cont)
• Activities found in text
• Identifies tasks
• Identifies Challenges
• Assessment ideas found throughout chapter

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Progression Spiral for the Skill Theme of
Chasing, Fleeing and Dodging

• PROFICIENCY LEVEL
• Dodging while manipulating an object in a game
  situation
• Using team strategy for chasing, fleeing, and
  dodging (Rip Flag)
• Dodging in a game situation (Pirates Treasure
  Safety Bases)
• Chasing and dodging simultaneously (Snatch the
  Flag)
• Chasing and fleeing in a game situation
• Dodging while maintaining possession of an object
  
• Continual fleeing and chasing with a large group
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• UTILIZATION LEVEL
• Dodging while manipulating an object
• Dodging in a dynamic situation (Body-Part Tag)
• Dodging and chasing one person in a mass (Partner
  Dodge)
• Dodging and chasing as part of a team (Octopus)
• Dodging and faking moves to avoid a chaser
  (Freeze-and-Count Tag)
• People Dodge (dodging stationary obstacles)
• CONTROL LEVEL
• Fleeing a chaser (Frogs and Flies)