Life Span Motor Development, Seventh Edition With HKPropel Access, is
a leading text for helping students examine and understand how
interactions of the developing and maturing individual, the environment,
and the task being performed bring about changes in a person's
movements. This model of constraints approach, combined with an
unprecedented collection of video clips marking motor development
milestones, facilitates an unmatched learning experience for the study
of motor development across the life span.
The seventh edition expands the tradition of making the student's
experience with motor development an interactive one. Related online
learning tools delivered through HKPropel include more than 190 video
clips marking motor development milestones to sharpen observation
techniques, with interactive questions and 47 lab activities to
facilitate critical thinking and hands-on application. The lab
activities may be assigned and tracked by instructors through
HKPropel, along with chapter quizzes (assessments) that are
automatically graded to test comprehension of critical concepts. The
text also contains several updates to keep pace with the changing field:
- Content related to physical growth and development of the skeletal,
muscle, and adipose systems is reorganized chronologically for a more
logical progression.
- New material on developmental motor learning demonstrates the overlap
between the disciplines of motor development and motor learning.
- New insights into motor competence help explain the relationship
between skill development and physical fitness.
The text helps students understand how maturational age and
chronological age are distinct and how functional constraints affect
motor skill development and learning. It shows how the four components
of physical fitness--cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, flexibility,
and body composition--interact to affect a person's movements over the
life span, and describes how relevant social, cultural, psychosocial,
and cognitive influences can affect a person's movements. This edition
comes with 148 illustrations, 60 photos, and 25 tables--all in full
color--to help explain concepts and to make the text more engaging for
students. It also retains helpful learning aids including chapter
objectives, a running glossary, key points, sidebars, and application
questions throughout each chapter.
Life Span Motor Development, Seventh Edition, embraces an interactive
and practical approach to illustrate the most recent research in motor
development. Students will come away with a firm understanding of the
concepts and how they apply to real-world situations.
Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print
books.
