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Laurea magistrale interateneo in Scienze dello sport e della prestazione fisica - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Sport and plays for school-age kids (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S009121
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
3
Also offered in courses:
- Sport and plays for school-age kids of the course Master's degree in Sport Science and Physical Performance
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-EDF/02 - SPORT SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY
Period
1° semestre dal Oct 1, 2021 al Jan 21, 2022.
Location
VERONA
Learning outcomes
The course provides to students the fundamental concepts of games for elementary school-aged children.
The expected learning outcomes are:
KNOWLEDGE
1. Defining a distinction in games for children 5-7 , 8-9 and 10-11 years old.
2. Establishing a direct connession between didactic action and the own characteristics of school-aged children.
3. Distinguishing and link among them the concepts of “game”, “motor literacy”, “young sports training”.
ABILITY
4. Explaining and analysing playful proposal based on an evolution, a continuity and a purpose of the game;
5. Learning to behave following developmental processes in school age distinguished in:
5.a.muscular- organic
5.b. cognitive
5.c. psychopedagogical
that come from knowledge of physical, motor, cognitive, social and emotional characteristics of young and older children.
6. Defining methods of the playful-didactic action, that are:
- Game facilitation
- Game stabilisation
- Game complication.The course provides to students the fundamental concepts of games for elementary school-aged children.
The expected learning outcomes are:
KNOWLEDGE
1. Defining a distinction in games for children 5-7 , 8-9 and 10-11 years old.
2. Establishing a direct connession between didactic action and the own characteristics of school-aged children.
3. Distinguishing and link among them the concepts of “game”, “motor literacy”, “young sports training”.
ABILITY
4. Explaining and analysing playful proposal based on an evolution, a continuity and a purpose of the game;
5. Learning to behave following developmental processes in school age distinguished in:
5.a.muscular- organic
5.b. cognitive
5.c. psychopedagogical
that come from knowledge of physical, motor, cognitive, social and emotional characteristics of young and older children.
6. Defining methods of the playful-didactic action, that are:
- Game facilitation
- Game stabilisation
- Game complication.The course provides to students the fundamental concepts of games for elementary school-aged children.
The expected learning outcomes are:
KNOWLEDGE
1. Defining a distinction in games for children 5-7 , 8-9 and 10-11 years old.
2. Establishing a direct connession between didactic action and the own characteristics of school-aged children.
3. Distinguishing and link among them the concepts of “game”, “motor literacy”, “young sports training”.
ABILITY
4. Explaining and analysing playful proposal based on an evolution, a continuity and a purpose of the game;
5. Learning to behave following developmental processes in school age distinguished in:
5.a.muscular- organic
5.b. cognitive
5.c. psychopedagogical
that come from knowledge of physical, motor, cognitive, social and emotional characteristics of young and older children.
6. Defining methods of the playful-didactic action, that are:
- Game facilitation
- Game stabilisation
- Game complication.
Program
The course programme is divided into two teaching modules:
Theoretical teaching module
Practical training module
THEORY MODULES
- Benefits of Physical activity in childhood: Physical well-being and health, cognitive functioning, effort, aerousal motivation and psychological well-being, social inclusionaccording to the contemporary scientific literature
- A Statement of Physical Activity Guidelines (2019) for children from birth to 5 years and of 6-10 y.
- Motor Skills/abilities Fundamental skills (kindergarten school, primary school)
- Maturation and development. Enriching environments
- Holistic conception of child: physical efficiency, executive functions and creativity, motor coordination
- Teaching with physical activity games
- Cognitive Engagement and variability of practice
- Physical Activity Cognitively Enriched: Games that Challenge Executive Functions.
- Physical Activity Enrich: Core Executice Functions: inhibition and interference control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility (including creatively thinking)
- Methods for develop Executive Functions. Games highlighting contextual interference, games emphasizing mental control, games highlighting discovery.
- Develop of motor skills: fitness ability and Fundamental Motor Skills
- Life skills: interpersonal skills and self efficacy
- Aimes of competence for Kindergarten- Age Children
- Aims of competence for Elementary School- Age Children
- Know the Effectiveness of Teaching Methods
PRATICAL TRAINING MODULES perceptive games, lateral and dominance games, rhythm games, orienteering games, space-time structured games, games to learn the body scheme, balance, imitation and expression games.
- I “Key games”. Performance games. Warm-up games, middle phase games and high motivation final games.
- Games without the use of apparatuses
- Games with apparatuses without the use of balls.
- 2. MODULE games in the school age
- Games for children aged from 6 to 8 years-old
Individual games; Group games; Team games; Regulated games. One vs one; one vs all. Relay races.
Games with balls for children aged from 6 to 8 years-old
- Games for children aged from 8 to 10 years-old
Individual games: collaborative games; team games; regulated games. Competitions. Tournaments. Games with balls for children aged from 8 to 10 years-old.
- 1 MODULE: Games for the development of special coordination skills: sensorial - 3. MODULE Mini sport: the principle of specificity of teaching.
- Game reduction
- Game’s facilitation, stabilisation and complication.
Bibliography
Examination Methods
The exam is conducted in one hour of written test (composition).
-The purposes of the test are aimed to verify the criteria used to conduct an educational and motor-specific program for the working plan of physical education.
Students will have to demonstrate to know how to plan and manage learning settings referred to every motor-specific objectives, considering the holistic approach of childern that means their cognitive, biological and psyco-social domain.
Students will have to demonstrate to know how to use a specifica and scientific language.
-The modality of verification will be a written test which includes 5 open questions and a hypothesis of lesson, that has to be presented at the moment of the exam.
