Concept of Physical Education

Vocabulary flashcards covering the definition, goals, objectives, and specific motor and movement skills of Physical Education as presented in the lecture.

Physical Education

The integral part of the whole educational program designed to promote the optimum development of the individual physically, socially, emotionally, and mentally through total body movement in the performance of properly selected physical activities (Andin, 3).

Major Goal of Physical Education

Fitness

Physical Development

An individual who engages in sports and recreational activities will develop and maintain good health, high level of physical fitness and will avoid the risk of various health problems.

Social Development

Activities in physical education provide opportunities for the development of desirable social traits needed for adjustment to social life.

Emotional Development

The informal nature of physical education offers opportunities for self- expression and emotional mastery.

Mental Development

The individual develops his mental expertise as he learns the mechanical principles underlying movement, knowledge and understanding of rules and strategies of games and sports, and ways of improving movement in gymnastics and dances.

Fine Motor Skills

Movements involving smaller muscle groups such as those in the hand and wrist.

Gross Motor Skills

Movements related to large muscles such as legs, arms, and trunk.

Locomotor Skills

Moving from one place to another.

Walk

A series of steps by transferring the weight of the body from one foot to another to another.

Run

It is a series of steps in a successive motion without break or intervention.

Jump

To spring off the ground either in one or both feet but land on both feet.

Hop

To spring off or move with light bounding skips in one foot but land in the same foot.

Skip

To move along by hopping lightly on first one foot and then the other.

Leap

To move by spring lightly in one foot and land in the other foot.

Slide

To move over the surface while maintaining smooth continouos contact in the floor.

Gallop

A movement mode of running particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the feet in successive leaps or bounds.

Non-Locomotor Skills

Movement that can be done in one place. There is no transfer from one to another.

Twisting

The rotation of a selected body part around its long axis.

Bending

Moving a joint.

Swaying

Fluidly and gradually shifting the center of gravity from one body part to another.

Stretching

Moving body parts way from the center of gravity.

Turning

Rotating the body along the axis.

Swinging

Rhythmical, smooth motion of a body part resembling a Pendulum.