FITNESS
It is the ability to stay in control of their body’s position. Often it is the ability to remain upright.
Balance
It is an illustration of different kinds of physical activities and is divided into levels.
Physical Activity Pyramid
A sport that uses fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules.
Boxing
A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet.
Contemporary Dance
The ability to use your senses, such as sight and hearing together with other body parts in performing tasks smoothly and accurately.
Coordination
What are the levels of the Physical Activity Pyramid?
Everyday, Aerobics/Sports & Recreation, Leisure/Strength & Flexibility, Cut Down On/Inactivity
An indoor game based on tennis played with small paddles and a ball bounced on a table divided by a net.
Table Tennis
A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman
Hawaiian Dance or Hula
The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients to the muscles during long periods of exercise.
Cardiovascular Endurance
Give an example of an EVERYDAY activity?
Household chores
A competitive sport of ice skating in prescribed patterns (figures) and choreographed free skating.
Figure Skating
A style of spirited, rhythmical Spanish dance often performed with castanets.
Flamenco
The time it takes to respond to a stimulus.
Reaction Time
Which activity is found on the bottom of the Physical Activity Pyramid?
Everyday Activities
A game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is played back and forth across a net.
Badminton
A popular form of expressive dance that evolved during the Twentieth Century. With its origins in American barn dances, swings, and even Irish jigging.
Country/Western Dance
The ability to move a joint through its full range of motion
Flexibility
Which level does "watching TV" belong to?
Inactivity
A modified form of football in which ballcarriers are downed by pulling off a marker, or flag, loosely attached to a belt, rather than by tackling.
Flag Football
It is a form of folk dance made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in the 17th century.
Contra Dance