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Make it easy for students with little or no background in the movement<br/>sciences to understand motor development across the life span. The fourth<br/>edition of Life Span Motor Development contains more than 130 video clips on an<br/>interactive CD-ROM, access to 28 downloadable laboratory activities, and other<br/>features that bring the subject to life. The inclusion of the labs and video<br/>clips into the textbook offering effectively replaces the learning activities<br/>guide from the previous edition, allowing students to have one book for all<br/>their coursework relating to motor development.<br/><br/>More reader friendly than ever, the widely used introductory text to life<br/>span motor development is an excellent resource that leads students through the<br/>principles, research, and applied practice of motor development from infancy to<br/>older adulthood. It will help students meet the minimum competencies identified<br/>by AAHPERD's Motor Development Academy as they prepare for the Praxis exam for<br/>physical education.<br/><br/>Life Span Motor Development, Fourth Edition, continues to present current<br/>topics in motor development from a unifying model of constraints approach.<br/>Students learn to improve their problem-solving ability by looking not only at<br/>the individual but also at the environmental and task factors that may affect<br/>growth and motor development. In addition, a life span approach has been<br/>integrated throughout the text, illustrating the range of motor skills in humans<br/>ranging in age from infants to adults.<br/><br/>In the fourth edition, the material has been streamlined into 17 chapters,<br/>and the following features have been added, making it more usable for teachers<br/>and students alike:<br/>Inclusion of more than 130 video segments<br/>of developmental sequences on a CD-ROM that requires no registration or unlock<br/>code<br/>Web access to 28 hands-on laboratory activities that present<br/>opportunities for