1. Chapter 16
Space Awareness

2. Chapter 16 Key Points One of the three categories of Movement Concepts
Refers to where the body moves
Fives aspects:
Location
Direction
Levels
Pathways
Extensions

3. Space Awareness Movement Concept
The Concept of Space Awareness: Where the Body Moves
Levels
Low
Medium
High
Pathways (floor/air)
Straight Curved
Zigzag
Extensions
Large/small
Location
Self‑space
General space
Directions
Up/down
Forward/backward
Right/left
Clockwise/counterclockwise

4. Movement Concepts in Physical Education
Space Awareness (where the body moves) • Location • Directions • Levels • Pathways • Extensions
Effort (how the body moves)  • Time • Force • Flow
Relationships (with whom, or what the body moves)  • Of body parts • With objects and/or people • With people

5. Chapter 16 Key Points The Wheel
A graphical illustration of the inter-relationship of the Movement Concepts and Skill Themes and their components
Outer ring describes idea
Middle ring gives categories within the idea
Inner ring defines the category components

6. Movement Analysis Framework: The Wheel

7. Chapter 16 Key Points Teaching Space Awareness:
Should be the focus at the beginning of your program to introduce children to the 5 space categories and also to enable students to move safely within the environment
Location concepts are foundation concepts crucial to all future learning
Direction, levels, pathways and extension concepts are taught to children with a focus on:
Understanding terminology and demonstrating the basic concept
Combining space awareness concepts, and/or components within a concept or how concept relates to objects and people

8. Chapter 16 Key Points Location Concepts
Self-Space The space the body can move from a given location without traveling
Increases students’ awareness of movement possibilities
Children also build foundation of non-locomotor skills (e.g. twisting, turning, bending) that can be used to develop other concepts and skills

9. Chapter 16 Key Points Location Concepts (cont)
General space The space within a room or boundary in which the students can move by traveling safely
Taught after self-space understood
Teaches children to move safely in a various ways and increasing complexity

10. Chapter 16 Key Points Direction Concepts
Refers to dimensional possibility in which the body or body parts aim to move (i.e. up/down; right/left;forward/backward; counterclockwise/clockwise)
Levels Concepts
Refers to horizontal levels in space where the body or its parts can move (i.e. High; middle; low)

11. Chapter 16 Key Points Pathway Concepts
Refers to imaginary design body makes or that object makes, on the floor, in the air when moving
When children master this concept and gain better control of their travel, they can use e.g. curved pathways to avoid collisions when traveling through general space

12. Chapter 16 Key Points Extension Concepts
Refers to both spatial relationship of body parts to entire body and to the size of movements in space
Small movements : body movements done close to body
Large movements: body movement with extremities extended

13. Chapter 16 Key Points Some teaching points:
Children find it difficult to learn left/right (directions), pathways and extensions
Wait for children to develop skills related to these concepts before emphasizing them