Motor Behaviour

Teaching Movement Education: Foundations for Active Lifestyles will help you develop students’ movement skills, provide them with fun activities that will enable them to be successful in movement, and lay the foundation for healthful habits. It contains numerous tools and developmentally appropriate activities in the four basic movement concepts, along with three sets of lesson plans.

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement: Neurobehavioral Perspectives discusses howvisual perception, attention, and memory are linked to the processes of movement preparation and execution.

Dynamic Human Anatomy, Second Edition, connects biomechanical movement with specific sports movements to provide an understanding of the body’s anatomical structure and function.

PE Metrics: Assessing Student Performance Using the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, Third Edition, offers 130 K-12 assessments that were created by SHAPE America. These assessments align with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education and with its three PE lesson planning books. Learn to create your own assessments and measure student performance.

Lesson Planning for Elementary Physical Education offers expert guidance in implementing lessons and curricula that are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes. The plans are flexible, reflect best practices, and foster the achievement of physical literacy.

Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, written by internationally recognized low back specialist Stuart McGill, guides readers through the assessment and treatment of low back pain, providing evidence-based research on the best methods of rehabilitation and prevention of future injury.

Motor Learning and Control for Dance is the first textbook to blend dance science, somatic practices, and pedagogy and address motor learning theory from a dance perspective. It focuses on motor development, motor control, and motor learning while showcasing principles and practices for students and teachers.

This text draws on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics to explore how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles to produce human motion in relation to biomechanical principles.

Detailing up-to-date research technologies and approaches, Research Methods in Biomechanics, Second Edition, assists both beginning and experienced researchers in developing methods for analyzing and quantifying human movement.

This book offers strategies, insight, and tools to help physical education teachers design a curriculum that includes students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Teachers learn to support students’ abilities and learning interests, develop solutions for appropriate programming, and teach students with ASD the skills they need to learn through natural supports, social learning tools, and engaging activities.

Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement: Improving Performance in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition, focuses on the processes behind assessment and diagnosis of movement technique, emphasizing the elements of professional intervention in diagnosis.

Advanced Analysis of Motor Development teaches readers to critically analyze research methods and results as they deepen their understanding of developmental phenomena. The text introduces the main models and theories that have influenced the field and offers in-depth examination of key studies.