Types of Freely Movable Joints
- Grades
- Grades 9–10, High School
- File type
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Editable
- Yes
- Subject
- Science, Life Sciences, Human Body, P.E. & Health, Physical Education
- Topic
- Joints, skeleton
- Resource types
- Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans
- Editable
- Yes
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Full PowerPoint Lesson Presentation reviewing the types of freely movable joints in the body; hinge & ball and socket.
Learning Objectives:
All must know examples of hinge and ball & socket joints.
Most should know the types of movement possible at joints around the body.
Some could be able to analyze joint movement during sporting actions.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Name examples of hinge joints (knee, elbow, ankle) and ball-and-socket joints (shoulder, hip).
Describe the types of movement possible at hinge versus ball-and-socket joints.
Analyze which joint movement (flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, or plantar flexion) occurs during a given sporting action.
Teaching tips
Print or recreate 'Worksheet 6' before teaching this lesson, since three of the slide activities direct students to it and it is not included in this file.
Use the sport-action slides (cricket bowl, hurdles, jump take-off) as a quick check for whether students can name the joint movement from a real athletic action rather than a diagram alone.
Review the starter slide's embedded answers as a class before moving to the main content, since it doubles as a quick joint-vocabulary check.
Skills covered
Joint classification — students identify whether a named joint (elbow, hip, ankle) is a hinge or ball-and-socket joint.
Movement terminology — students apply the terms flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation to specific joint actions.
Sport-action analysis — students match a joint movement to real examples in sport, such as a hurdles lead leg or a cricket bowling action.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
What should a teacher prepare before running the three in-class activities in this deck?
All three activities direct students to fill in or reference a separate 'Worksheet 6 – freely moveable joints,' which is not included in this PowerPoint file, so the teacher needs to source or recreate that worksheet ahead of the lesson.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Hinge joints
Ball-and-socket joints
Joint movement terminology
Human anatomy
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