Strengthening Pupils’ Physical Activity through Outdoor Education
Vol.14,No.2(2020)
The time pupils spend at school provides a very small benefit to pupils’ movement activity. At a time when many school-age children lack physical activity, it is necessary to think about how to integrate more movement into the period that the child spends at school. This paper is based on the assumption that outdoor education can contribute to the development of movement activities of pupils. The paper also aims to determine to what extent. To obtain data, calorie count and metabolic discharge, including sedentary analysis, were recorded through an ActiGraph accelerometer during 4-hour lessons of different types of education days. The result is that outdoor education can serve as an appropriate complement to learning that contributes to the development of pupils’ knowledge and skills while working in a real environment but also acts as a means of increasing the possibilities for movement of pupils during their schooling.
outdoor education; elementary school; physical activity assessment; health promotion; accelerometry
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