Awareness of Movement's Spatial-Temporal Properties

Approx. Age: ~3 years, 5 mo old • Born: Sep 19 - 25, 2022

Curriculum Level

Level 7

Level Progress

51/ 128

Current Age

~3 years, 5 mo old

Cohort

Sep 19 - 25, 2022

🚧 Content Planning

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Rationale & Protocol

The Sport-Thieme Scooter Board with Handles is an unparalleled tool for developing a 3-year-old's awareness of movement's spatial-temporal properties due to its versatile design and safety features. At this age, children require hands-on, multi-sensory experiences to grasp abstract concepts. This board allows children to actively propel themselves using hands and feet, providing immediate feedback on speed (temporal) and direction/path (spatial). The handles offer crucial stability and control, empowering the child to experiment with acceleration, deceleration, turning, and navigating obstacles. It supports various body positions (seated, kneeling, prone), enhancing proprioceptive and vestibular input. This direct experience with self-generated movement directly fosters an intuitive understanding of how their actions influence their location and velocity in space over time.

Implementation Protocol for a 3-year-old:

Introduction & Free Exploration: Begin in a safe, open space (indoors or outdoors on a smooth surface). Introduce the scooter board and allow the child to freely experiment with sitting, kneeling, or lying on it. Encourage them to push themselves with their hands and/or feet. Observe their natural exploration of speed and direction.
Guided Spatial Cues: As the child gains confidence, introduce verbal cues and demonstrations: "Can you go fast? Can you go slow?" "Let's turn left! Now turn right!" "Try to go straight!" "Make a big curve!" Use clear, simple language and corresponding hand gestures.
Simple Obstacle Course: Utilize the included soft cones to create basic paths. Start with a straight line to follow, then introduce gentle curves or instruct them to go "around" a cone. This encourages motor planning and application of spatial language.
Partner Play (Varying Input): An adult can gently pull the child on the board, varying the speed and direction while verbalizing the actions ("We're going fast! Slowing down! Turning this way!"). This provides external feedback on movement properties.
Target Practice with Soft Balls: Place the soft play balls at varying distances and directions. Encourage the child to propel themselves (or the board) towards a target, promoting an understanding of force, trajectory, and distance. Challenge them to reach a target "slowly" or get there "fast."

Primary Tool Tier 1 Selection

Sport-Thieme Scooter Board with Handles

Sport-Thieme Scooter Board

This specific scooter board provides optimal leverage for a 3-year-old by enabling active self-propulsion and control over movement. The integrated handles enhance safety and provide leverage for dynamic changes in direction and speed. It offers rich proprioceptive and vestibular input, essential for a child to build an internal map of their body's spatial orientation and temporal flow during movement. The durable construction makes it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, encouraging varied environmental exploration.

Key Skills: Proprioception, Vestibular Processing, Gross Motor Coordination, Motor Planning, Spatial Orientation, Directionality, Speed Awareness, Force Modulation, Body Schema, BalanceTarget Age: 3-8 yearsSanitization: Wipe down thoroughly with a damp cloth and mild disinfectant solution after each use. Ensure it is completely dry before storage.

Also Includes:

Sport-Thieme Hutkegel-Set (Small) (15.00 EUR)
Sport-Thieme Schaumstoffball-Set (Soft Foam Balls) (25.00 EUR)

DIY / No-Tool Project (Tier 0)

A "No-Tool" project for this week is currently being designed.

Estimated Shelf Value

99.90EUR

Sport-Thieme Scooter Board with Handles59.90 EUR
↳ Sport-Thieme Hutkegel-Set (Small)15.00 EUR
↳ Sport-Thieme Schaumstoffball-Set (Soft Foam Balls)25.00 EUR

Prices are estimates. Shipping & VAT calculated at source.

Origin Path

1
From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
➔ "Internal World (The Self)" (W1)
"External World (Interaction)" (W2)
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
"Cognitive Sphere" (W3)
➔ "Somatic Sphere" (W5)
3
From: "Somatic Sphere"
Split Justification: The Somatic Sphere encompasses all physical aspects of the self. These can be fundamentally divided based on whether they are directly accessible to conscious awareness and subjective experience (e.g., pain, touch, proprioception) or whether they operate autonomously and beneath the threshold of conscious perception (e.g., heart rate, digestion, cellular metabolism). Every bodily sensation, state, or process falls into one of these two categories, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
➔ "Conscious Somatic Experience" (W9)
"Autonomic & Unconscious Somatic Processes" (W13)
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From: "Conscious Somatic Experience"
Split Justification: Conscious somatic experiences can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary focus is on the body's internal condition, physiological state, or spatial configuration (e.g., hunger, proprioception, pain from an organ, fatigue) or whether they are primarily concerned with the body's interaction, contact, or perception of stimuli from the external environment (e.g., touch, temperature, pressure, pain from an external source). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary referent is either internal or external to the body's boundary, and comprehensively exhaustive as all conscious somatic experiences fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
➔ "Awareness of Internal Bodily States" (W17)
"Awareness of External Bodily Interactions" (W25)
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From: "Awareness of Internal Bodily States"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of internal bodily states can be fundamentally categorized as either perceptions related to the body's internal homeostatic balance, health, and drives (e.g., hunger, thirst, pain from organs, fatigue) or perceptions related to the body's physical configuration, posture, and locomotion in space (e.g., proprioception, kinesthesia, balance). These two categories are distinct in their primary sensory input and functional purpose, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive for internal bodily awareness.
"Awareness of Physiological Needs and States" (W33)
➔ "Awareness of Body Position and Movement" (W49)
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From: "Awareness of Body Position and Movement"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of the body's configuration in space can be fundamentally divided based on whether the perception is of the body's static spatial arrangement at a given moment (e.g., the angle of a joint, the orientation of a limb) or of the dynamic change in that arrangement over time (e.g., the sensation of a limb swinging, the perceived speed of a motion, the effort expended in an action). These two categories are mutually exclusive as awareness focuses either on a state or a process, and comprehensively exhaustive as any conscious experience of the body in space is either about its position or its movement.
"Awareness of Body Position" (W81)
➔ "Awareness of Body Movement" (W113)
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From: "Awareness of Body Movement"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of body movement can be fundamentally categorized as either the perception of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the body's motion (e.g., perceived speed, direction, amplitude, trajectory) or the perception of the internal energetic expenditure and forces involved in generating or resisting that motion (e.g., perceived effort, exertion, resistance). These two categories represent distinct and fundamental perceptual dimensions of movement, making them mutually exclusive, and comprehensively exhaustive as any conscious experience of movement will fall into one or both of these domains.
➔ "Awareness of Movement's Spatial-Temporal Properties" (W177)
"Awareness of Movement's Energetic-Effort Properties" (W241)
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Topic: "Awareness of Movement's Spatial-Temporal Properties" (W177)

Research & Datasheets

Alternative Candidates (Tiers 2-4)

GonG Pelvic Swing

A large, soft, pendulum-like swing designed for vestibular stimulation and core strengthening.

Analysis:

While excellent for vestibular integration, body awareness, and gross motor development, the GonG Pelvic Swing primarily provides passive movement experience or focuses on the effort of maintaining position. For a 3-year-old, it offers less direct, active exploration and manipulation of diverse spatial-temporal parameters like self-directed path changes, variable speeds, and precise directional control compared to a scooter board. Its utility for directly understanding 'movement's spatial-temporal properties' is therefore less focused on the *control* aspect.

Large Movement Scarves / Play Silks

Lightweight, colorful fabric squares used for waving, swirling, and tracking in the air.

Analysis:

Movement scarves are valuable for visualizing movement patterns, understanding flow, and connecting breath with motion, providing visual feedback on arcs and speeds. However, for a 3-year-old, their primary impact is on visual tracking and gross arm movements. The learning of spatial-temporal properties is more abstract and observational rather than the direct, full-body proprioceptive and vestibular experience of self-propulsion and navigation that a scooter board provides.

What's Next? (Child Topics)

"Awareness of Movement's Spatial-Temporal Properties" evolves into:

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Awareness of Movement's Spatial Properties

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Awareness of Movement's Temporal Properties

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Logic behind this split:

All conscious awareness of movement's spatial-temporal properties can be fundamentally divided based on whether the perception primarily relates to the body's configuration and displacement in space (e.g., direction, amplitude, trajectory, path) or its progression and timing through time (e.g., speed, duration, rhythm, acceleration). These two dimensions are distinct and mutually exclusive in their fundamental nature (space vs. time) and comprehensively cover all aspects of movement's spatial-temporal properties.