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Background: Aims were to investigate sex, ethnicity, and age differences in achieving daily step count and television (TV) watching recommendations in schoolchildren. Methods: Participants were 615 children (n = 325) and adolescents (n = 290) aged 5 to 16 years. Activity was assessed over 5 days using pedometers; TV time was collected via parental proxy-report and self-report. Ethnic, sex, and age differences in step counts, TV time, and odds of meeting TV and step count recommendations were examined for weekdays, weekend days, and overall using generalized estimation equation modeling. Results: Overall, girls were more active than boys (P < .001). Adolescents were more active than children (P = .044), watched more TV (P = .005), and were less likely to meet TV watching recommendations (P = .004). Non-European children watched significantly more TV (P = .008), and were significantly less likely to meet TV recommendations than non-European children (P - .001). Participants watched more TV and accumulated less steps on weekend days than weekdays. Conclusions: Multifaceted interventions focusing on both increasing activity and decreasing TV time are needed, especially on weekends. Children and girls may benefit more from activity interventions, while ethnic-specific interventions focusing on TV habits may be most efficacious for adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Active recreation sessions taking place within after-school programs (ASP) present an opportunity for attending children to attain part of the recommended 60 minutes of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). This cross-sectional study's purpose was to assess relationships between microlevel ASP environmental characteristics and physical activity and sedentary behavior (SED). Methods: During 161 ASP active recreation sessions, 240 children from 7 schools wore Actigraph GT1M accelerometers and were observed up to 6 times per year, over 3 years. To provide microlevel environmental data, trained observers recorded session times, location, duration, organization, equipment, and number of children and staff. Unadjusted bivariate correlations and multivariable regression analyses were used to assess the influence of microlevel environmental variables on MVPA and SED, with regression models controlling for relevant covariates. Results: Across all ASP active recreation sessions, children spent 39 ± 15% in MVPA and 16 ± 11% in SED. Session location, boy-to-girl ratio, and duration were significantly related to MVPA in the regression model. For SED, location and duration were significant influences in the model. Conclusions: Both location and duration appear to be modifiable correlates of group physical activity level, which may serve to inform intervention efforts to promote physical activity in ASP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En las primeras décadas del siglo XX un conjunto de actores y grupos sociales percibieron la necesidad de construir espacios complementarios y, en algunos casos, alternativos al formato escolar estatalizado que estaba en pleno crecimiento. Entre los espacios pensados para transmitir e imponer ciertos tópicos, se destacaron los recreos infantiles. Más allá de las fuertes disputas ideológicas y políticas acaecidas en las primeras décadas del siglo XX en la Argentina, hubo un fuerte consenso sobre la necesidad de disponer de espacios recreativos para la población infantil. Sin embargo, los fines, los sentidos y los significados puestos en circulación entraron rápidamente en colisión dependiendo del grupo social de origen, de la ideología profesada y de la forma de concebir "lo político". Grupos de socialistas, anarquistas y de diferentes congregaciones religiosas (por ejemplo, salesianas) implementaron recreos infantiles en la Argentina. Estos espacios de sociabilidad pusieron en circulación una serie de sentidos y significados sobre diferentes tópicos, entre ellos la "cuestión sexual". El siguiente artículo indaga los significados que se produjeron, transmitieron y circularon en relación a la diferencia sexual, a la feminidad y a la masculinidad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To assess the effects of a group resistance exercise program on prepubescent children, an experimental group of boys (n=26) and girls (n=24), with a mean age of 8.4±0.5 years, participated in 12 weeks of school based training. The program consisted of upper body exercise using hand-held weights, stretch tubing, balls, and self-supported movements. A control group of boys (n=30) and girls (n=16), mean age 8.6±0.5 years, had a free-play period. Boys were significantly stronger than girls on all initial strength evaluations and were taller and had lesser skinfold sums. ANCOVA was used to evaluate pre/post changes in cable tensiometer elbow flexion and extension, right and left handgrip strength, pull-ups, flexed arm hang, sit-ups, sit-and-reach flexibility, and body composition parameters. Following the training period, significantly greater gains were made by the experimental group for right handgrip, flexed arm hang, pull-ups, and flexibility. Greater decreases in sum of skinfolds were also found. Training responses of boys and girls were similar. It was concluded that a group strength training program can be an effective means of increasing fitness levels and improving body composition in both boys and girls of this age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Others' success can be a powerful motivation to innovate, which sometimes means finding new ways to return to beneficial activities. Finland's academic success has prompted many to explore that country's policies and practices, particularly regarding providing opportunities for children to enjoy more unstructured play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Others' success can be a powerful motivation to innovate, which sometimes means finding new ways to return to beneficial activities. Finland's academic success has prompted many to explore that country's policies and practices, particularly regarding providing opportunities for children to enjoy more unstructured play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the establishment of a pattern of healthy lifestyles in Asheboro, North Carolina as of 2017. Topics include the Randolph County Partnership for Children, whose aim is to establish a habit of healthy eating and increased outdoor play, the GoNapSacc, a program developed by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to improve child care environments, policies, and practices of nutrition and physical activity through technical assistance and self-assessment, and the Second Chance Breakfast, which offers a second opportunity to eat a healthy breakfast to entire student body.

How is it possible to form concepts in early childhood education? This question was the starting point of this study using recreational activities as a tool to support ecological literacy. The research was conducted with children aged 4–5 years in a Brazilian school. Initially, the meanings children attributed to the concept of a ‘food web’ were identified during a teaching sequence including dramatization, games, drawings and interviews. The results show that although the understanding of the scientific concept of a food web did not exceed the complex phase of thought established by Vygotsky [(1986).Thought and language. London: The MIT Press], we observed a development relating to the children’s ecological literacy, supporting the research of Capra [(2006a).A teia da vida: uma nova compreensão científica dos sistemas vivos. São Paulo: Cultrix; Capra, F. (2006b).Alfabetização Ecológica – a educação das crianças para um mundo sustentável. São Paulo: Cultrix]. The group of young children developed the perception of belonging to the web, raising awareness of the importance of animal care to preserve life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Background. Adolescents use internet to get confidential and convenient access to an unprecedented level of information regarding a diverse range of subjects, to play games, to perform homework, to send messages and to network with other peers. Aims. This article seeks to explore internet use related behaviours among Romanian adolescents, giving special attention to the possible differences between urban and rural areas. Moreover, the relationship between the time dedicated to internet use daily and the time dedicated to physical activity among adolescents will also be investigated. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2014 in two schools in Cluj-Napoca and one school in Cuzdrioara among 187 adolescents aged 11-15. Information was collected by means of anonymous questionnaires. Results. A percentage of 92% of subjects declared that they used internet for several purposes (information searching, email, social media, playing games). It was observed that statistically significantly more adolescents from rural areas declared that they did not use internet compared to adolescents from urban areas (15.9% vs 4%). Around half of the subjects used internet less than 1 hour/day and around one quarter declared the use of internet between 1-2 hours per day. More than 80% of the subjects had used internet in the last month for getting information for a school activity or homework, half were interested in searching information about socio-cultural events, while one third were interested in information regarding a healthy lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, body weight, smoking prevention). Only one quarter of the participants followed the recommendations of performing at least one hour of moderate to intense physical activity daily. The results of the bivariate correlation show that there was no statistical association between the time spent using internet/day and the time spent for physical activity daily. Conclusions. School instruction and health promotion programmes in Romania might take advantage of the spread of internet for developing sustainable, attractive and effective educational activities for adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feedback can be a powerful learning tool, but its effects vary widely. Research has suggested that learners' prior knowledge may moderate the effects of feedback; however, no causal link has been established. In Experiment 1, we randomly assigned elementary schoolchildren (N = 108) to a condition based on a crossing of 2 factors: induced strategy knowledge (yes vs. no) and immediate, verification feedback (present vs. absent). Feedback had positive effects for children who were not taught a correct strategy, but negative effects for children with induced knowledge of a correct strategy. In Experiment 2, we induced strategy knowledge in all children (N = 101) and randomly assigned them to 1 of 3 conditions: no feedback, immediate correct-answer feedback, or summative correct-answer feedback. Again, feedback had negative effects relative to no feedback. Results provide evidence for a causal role of prior knowledge and indicate that minimal feedback can both help and hinder learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research was to analyse the relations between the amount of leisure time and membership in sports clubs among elementary school pupils, focusing on gender differentiation. The sample included a total of 157 students (78 boys). By testing significance of differences between proportions of the students who self-reportedly have free time and are members of sports clubs (p1=0,64) and the ones who selfreportedly do not have leisure time and are members of sports clubs (p2=0,26), a statistically significant difference was determined (p<0,001). Moreover, by testing significance of differences between proportions of the female students who self-reportedly have leisure time and are members of sports clubs (p1=0,33) and the ones who self-reportedly do not have free time and are members of sports clubs (p2=0,67), a statistically significant difference was determined as well (p<0,001). The results show gender differentiation as well, where boys who have more free time are more likely to become members of sports clubs, while the situation with girls is reversed. Taking into consideration the significance of physical activity, especially during puberty, which is a critical period of habit formation, results clearly indicate that membership in sports clubs is a predictor of the development of a variety of child development areas. These results are in accordance with a series of timely and adequate actions aimed at creating and maintenance of desirable habits, and preventing the negative consequences of the lack of physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spaces of schooling are not mere settings or backdropswhere students' learning take place, but are implicated in the production of knowledge and identities/subjectivities - spaces embody specific values, beliefs and traditions. In this paper, we drawon visual ethnographic data froman all-boys school in New Zealand to examine how the spaces of schooling and physical education (PE) perform health work in relation to the all-round development of healthy young masculinities. By drawing on a complexivist philosophy, we draw attention to how school policies, spaces, bodies, students, teachers all intersect to provide the boys with a socio-spatial context in which knowledge and learning about healthy young masculinities is constructed. We demonstrate how stereotypical notions of what boys should be doing and what they like doing is, for instance, materialised by the design and provision of schooling and PE as sporting spaces, based on a form of 'healthism', which privileges individualistic notions of health and the assumption that sport-fitness-health. We conclude that although the design and provision of schooling and PE spaces based on healthism is an important source of pleasures for young men, it also reinforces narrowly defined and even problematic forms of healthy young masculinities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, based on the results of a sociological survey of parents of schoolchildren, presents detailed information on leisure activities of students of secondary schools and retrospective information about their parents' own childhood leisure. The article sets out the structure of the students' free time, the content of leisure activities, and particular leisure activities of students living in different types of settlements. The article pays special attention to differences in leisure activities based on economic status of the family and parents' education level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning and programming are the basis of every coach, regardless of his experience and knowledge. Plan and program are the basic document used for realization of the process of the sports preparation and control effects achieved by their implementation. Planning and programming are impossible to determine without a certain degree of precise school of volleyball, while the schedule of goals and tasks for each level is going to determine the curriculum of a given degree. This study is about annual planning and programming for the first level of volleyball school for girls, aged 8 to 10 years. The aim is to define the tasks of volleyball school for first degree, to make the annual plan of training volume and determine the annual program of sports preparations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A questionnaire-based survey was conducted on a sample of 238 parents whose children attend the third and fourth grades in two Belgrade elementary schools: "Oslobodioci Beograda" and "Borislav Pekic". The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of outdoor activities and the attitude of the third and fourth graders' parents towards it. Statistical data processing was based on the use of the -R, and every question represented a random variable. The analysis of the collected data has proved the presence of outdoor activities among these pupils and their positive attitude towards camping out, as well as a positive attitude of their parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to determine which sports are most popular among parents of pupils of primary school in Serbia, in order to determine which sports would be advisable to introduce in the classes of physical education. The sample included 5865 parents. Most parents would like to introduce as an optional sport swimming, football, basketball, volleyball and at last parents would like to introduce acrobatics, wrestling, orienteering and rowing. Obtained were statistically significant differences according to gender (fathers would like to be introduced football and mothers would like swimming) and according to educational level (parents with higher educational level would most like to be introduced swimming and volleyball; while parents with the lowest educational level prefered football). The results indicates that with enlargement of educational level of parents comes higher level of interest for other sports, like skiing and basketball and decrease level interest for bicycling, football and karate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of play during school. It explores reasons for the reduction of recess in the United States, the use of play in learning in school libraries, and the learning commons, a type of hybrid library environment that includes virtual and physical spaces. Play's benefits to children, including motivation, self-determination, and improvement of social skills are evaluated. Inquiry-based learning, storytelling, reading stories, and questing, or engagement in information seeking, are explored. Children's autonomy, information seeking techniques, and the role of teacher librarians in fostering play are also discussed.

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Guidelines for the maintenance of health and wellbeing in children recommend at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) daily. In South Africa, community sport and recreation facilities and opportunities are meagre in areas previously disadvantaged by apartheid, so schools should be primary sites for enabling children to meet these recommendations. However, physical education has been marginalized in the curriculum and extra-curricular sports provision has declined. The purpose of this study was to investigate children's school day physical activity patterns in relation to meeting daily recommended guidelines. A total of 112 children (boys n=53; girls n=59), from Grades 3 to 6 (aged 8 to 12 years) from 3 disadvantaged schools participated in the study. Physical activity, representing the whole school day and recess, was measured over 5 days using ActiGraphaccelerometers. Qualitative interviews were conducted on a subsample of 20 learners. The results indicated that children accumulated 35 minutes of in-school MVPA, contributing 58% of the 60 minutes of MVPA a day recommendation. Recess accounted for 37% of in-school MVPA. Boys participated in significantly more in-school MVPA than girls (boys=38.47 ± 16.10 mm, girls=32.59 ± 14.03 mm). Almost 90% of Grade 6 children failed to accumulate 30 minutes of MVPA. Low levels of in-school MVPA among girls and the marked decline at Grade 6 are disturbing. Schools should be pivotal in the provision of physical activity to combat the health risks associated with increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Schools need to increase PA through the provision of quality physical education and find cost effective ways of promoting school-day PA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores a Sport Education pilot project as a case study of the approach in a primary school setting. The data was obtained from the end of unit written reflections of a class of upper primary students in an urban Australian primary school. The Sport Education unit of work was implemented by the school's physical education teacher who had the speculative hypothesis that Sport Education held the potential to be a construct through which to engage students that the teacher considered reluctant participants or socially isolated in class (author, 2008). The results expose an optimistic student response to the experience. Six themes emerge from the analysis of the results. They indicate Sport Education can deliver positive products for the class climate as well as for a student's personal and social skill development in a primary school setting. It is evident most students felt more included and motivated, and understood that they had developed skills for working cooperatively with others. Within this optimistic response complexities do emerge and these will be considered for their indications for Sport Education in primary school settings. However, it can be concluded that Sport Education is a curriculum model suitable for primary school physical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose. The purpose of this study to verify the effects of the recreative activities to the student's hopelessness level at 13 years old children. In our study 30 female (age:13) and 24 male (age:13) students from Kocaeli Atatürk Primary School have participated as volunteer. Methods. The labour that was organised to observe the exchange of children's ranks of dispair, continued 8 weeks, 2 days per weeks, 1 hours per days. The students that have attended the research were tested before and after the activities. The test, had each 20 questions, were about "Beck Hopelessness Scale". Results. The datas were appraised according to Beck Hopelessness Scale. After the evaluation of the datas, the dispertion about the frequency and percentiles were tabulated. According to results of Willcoxon Signed Ranks Test, there were no meaningful discrepancy between the first and the last test scores of boys. However, it is founden between the first and the last test scores of girls, meaningful discrepancy about (p<0.05). Conclusions. This study showed that hopelessness level can be develop by recreative activities in children. By focusing on these kinds of activities in schools, it will provide an improvement of hopelessness level of children, also a quiet and independent life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study has sought to determine if the Tommie Smith Youth Athletic Initiative (TSYAI) intervention could decrease the risk factors for childhood obesity among children 5 to 10 years of age. The TSYAI intervention is a 14-week after-school intervention for students in Grades K-5 that was started during the spring of 2008. It serves 63 children in a predominantly African American elementary school. The intervention consists of supervised after-school sessions 3 days per week. These sessions include 2 days of physical activity (flexibility, resistance, and track-and-field training) and 1 day of 45 min of nutrition education modules based on the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change followed by 45 min of group physical activity. Ninety-two percent of the participants are African American and 60% are overweight or obese (>85th percentile BMI for age and gender). The findings indicate that the TSYAI intervention significantly improves the participant's cardiovascular fitness, body composition, and dietary habits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Outdoor school environments are sites for play and physical activity for many children, and shortcomings within these environments are considered significant factors that contribute to children''s inactive lifestyles and high levels of childhood obesity. This study explores the associations between the physical characteristics of schoolyards and the physical activity of third and fourth year students in five Turkish primary schools. Data were collected through multiple methods, including behavior mapping of student activities during recess, physical assessments of schoolyards, and interviews with students, teachers and administrations. The findings show similarities in the landscape features and physical qualities of schoolyards, particularly in the types of play and activities in which students engage. Results indicated that active students who walk to and from schools have lower body mass index (BMI) values than passive students, and students in schools with larger yards have lower BMI values. Most of the students prefer spacious and vegetated yards. A major concern is the crowdedness of the yards during recess that limit children''s activity. Schoolyards with advanced landscape features are preferred more, and this in turn affects students’ positive satisfaction. Outdoor school environments have a correlation to health outcomes and should be designed to promote more activity. Improving the physical and landscape qualities of the public schoolyards should be the primary concern of the designers in order to increase awareness of natural environment and more important, increase the health of children. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article discusses a study that aims to compare the physical activity levels of overweight and normal-weight children during primary school recess. A total of 377 children, 6 to 10 years of age, completed the study from the 420 that were initially selected from 25 schools in England. Results showed that overweight boys were significantly less active than their normal-weight counterparts, however, this difference is not true for girls.

The article discusses the immense popularity of manga (Japanese comic books) among U.S. schoolchildren. The author notes that many parents and educators attribute short-attention spans, passivity and lack of creativity to such amusements, however, manga can be used for educational purposes as well. Utilizing such popular culture as manga has proven to be effective in literacy instruction in particular due to the multimodal and semiotic writing styles. Manga readers are exposed to indirect and subtle writing which helps develop critical and multidimensional thinking.

The purpose of the present study was to integrate and test the utility of two models for explaining and predicting physical activity intentions and behavior--the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and self-efficacy theory. A total of 645 (male = 347) New Zealand children between the ages of 11 and 13 completed demographic information and measures corresponding to the integrated model. One week later, children completed a self-report questionnaire in which they were asked about their physical activity behaviors in the previous week. Two hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to predict goal intention and physical activity behavior, respectively. Results showed that the constructs of the TPB (attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control [PBC]) significantly predicted goal intention (p < .001) in Step 1, explaining 57.3% of the variance. Task and barrier efficacy also contributed significantly to the prediction (R² = .01, p < .001) when entered in Step 2. When all variables were considered together--attitude, β = .15, p < .001; subjective norm, β = .29, p < .001; PBC, β = .37, p < .001; task efficacy, β = .12, p < .01; and barrier efficacy, β = .02, p > .05--only barrier efficacy did not predict goal intention. With regard to physical activity behavior, goal intention was entered in Step 1 and was a significant predictor (p < .001), accounting for 13.5% of the variance. Step 2 revealed that PBC contributed significantly to the prediction of behavior (R² = .01, p < .01), and the inclusion of task and barrier efficacy in Step 3 also resulted in a significant increase in the amount of explained variance (R² = .16, p < .001). When all variables were considered together--goal intention, β = .12, p < .05; PBC, β = .03, p > .05; task efficacy, β = .16, p < .01; and barrier efficacy, β = .35, p < .001--task and barrier efficacy emerged as the two strongest predictors of physical activity behavior. Future research should examine the utility of task and barrier efficacy in predicting objectively measured physical activity behaviors in children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Features a study which conducted a process evaluation of the self-management component of Sport, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids (SPARK), a school-based physical activity promotion intervention for elementary school students. General method; Questions about the SPARK and self-management workshops; Conclusions.

Describes two field days, Super Kids Day and Classic Games, designed for schoolchildren. Organization; Sports events.

Three experiments were conducted to 1) investigate the impact of syntactic complexity on analytic assistance; 2) extend the research on analytic assistance to younger subjects; and 3) determine the relative importance of analytic assistance (definition or strategy questions), when compared to a new, possibly more effective, example-only comparison group. An analysis of results for fifth grade subjects in Experiment 1 showed a direct relationship between the use of analytic assistance and concept acquisition, replicating results from earlier studies using different procedures for constructing the example-only treatment. Results with younger subjects in Experiment 2 were mixed. Like fifth graders, third graders performed equally well with a definition and with strategy questions. In contrast, more second graders learned the concept when provided with strategy questions than with a definition. In Experiment 3, differences between groups with the syntactically varied definitions were significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the highlights of a physical education programs for elementary school children in Alabama. Importance of skill building; Necessity of technology in education; Need to develop and maintain appropriate level of fitness.

Abstract: Objective: To determine the temporal relationships screen-time and physical activity have with cardiorespiratory fitness. Method: Measures were made over two years (2008–2010) in 1500 participants aged 11.5 (SD 0.5) years at baseline. Results: Tracking coefficients were low-to-moderate for all measures. At follow-up, 25% of participants moved from having low (<2h) to high (≥2h) daily screen-time and 6% became unfit according to FITNESSGRAM standards. Baseline screen-time was the strongest univariate predictor of becoming unfit. Multivariate analysis controlling for decimal age, BMI and deprivation confirmed baseline screen-time as the strongest independent predictor of becoming unfit over the 2-year study period (OR 2.4; 95%CI:1.4–4.0). Current (OR 2.3; 95%CI:1.3–4.0) and previous (OR 1.7; 95%CI:1.0–2.9) physical activity levels also independently predicted becoming unfit. Conclusion: There is currently no guidance for limiting screen-time in UK children. These longitudinal data add to the cross-sectional evidence of lower physical activity and fitness in children reporting ≥2h daily screen-time. More importantly, these data demonstrate that high screen-time during childhood is an independent predictor of lower cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article focuses on the pros and cons of the Sport Education Curriculum (SEM) that is used in New Zealand. Comments made by former professional rugby player Chris Laidlaw show how important sport is to New Zealanders. Educator Daryl Siedentop believed that sport education was necessary and his play theory is analyzed.

The article focuses on a study led by William Massey which examines the key role of adults in children's recess participation. Topics discussed include the value of recess for children, the variables that affect the engagement of a child in recess activities and physical activity, and the participation and supervision of adults in children's games.