Resource for activities

Need ideas for activities for children of different ages? The website www.pecentral.org has a huge variety of lessons that can be used/modified by instructors and therapists. We use a lot of those for intervention with a very specialized group, and the website is great to give us a general idea of how to start and how we can propose some of the motor skills. It's a great resource for everybody who works with movement somehow.

Motor Development videos

A couple years ago I found some great online videos on Motor Development and I've been using them in classes since that time. Dr. Marcio Oliveira, the Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation at University of Maryland (and a great investigator in the field) created a series of short videos that portray different topics in motor development, including two interviews with Dr. Jane Clark that are just fantastic! She is also from University of Maryland. Dr. Oliveira is an advocate for innovation in higher ed teaching and he has been doing great things - and I'm still hoping for many more!

Here is a list of the topics (click on it for the link):

Reflexes and spontaneous movements
Prenatal development: The course of early development
Reflexes assessments
Perceptual development: Kinesthetic
Perceptual development: Visual & auditory
Epigenetics in MD
Nature x nurture in MD
Fundamentals of MD
The mountain of MD: A metaphor
The mountain of MD: Periods
Constraints in motor development
Career paths in motor development