If you are a PE teacher, researcher, or coach it won’t be long before you come across the word “affordance”.
Based on a person’s physical capabilities, affordance refers to all the things you can do with an object.
For example, a skipping rope turns into a game of tug of war, high jump, and limbo.
And yet most kids I meet can’t skip.
Before we replace naive simple ideas with complicated ones backed by experts it pays to find out if we understand the simple ones first.