Author(s)

Zonghang Cao ^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Physical Education, Luoyang Experimental Kindergarten, Xigong District, Luoyang City, China
² Institute of Physical Education, Henan Normal University, Muye District, Xinxiang City, China

Corresponding Author

Zonghang Cao

ABSTRACT

Taking movement development as the research perspective, according to the theory of movement development, the law of physical and mental health development of young children and the principles of constructing physical activities for young children, we adopt survey method, experimental method, testing method and mathematical and statistical method, and through a 3-month experimental study on 4-5 year old children, we construct a suitable physical activity content system for 4-5 year old children to meet the developmental needs of young children, with a view to alleviating the current The study was conducted with 4-5 year olds to build a physical activity content system suitable for 4-5 year olds to meet their developmental needs and to alleviate the current pressure on physical education. With reference to the theory of human movement development, the study combined the perspective of movement development to construct physical activity contents for children at different stages from three perspectives of displacement, manipulative and control movements as primary indicators. The experimental school-based physical activity content had good effects in promoting the development of children's manipulative movements, and the control group showed differences in the total scores of the school-based physical activity before and after the experiment, among which the development of object control movements was better, but the development of children's body movement still had more room for improvement, and only running and side sliding showed significant differences. In the experimental group, except for the object control movements in which there was no significant difference between girls shooting and kicking a ball in place before and after the experiment, all other types of movements showed different degrees of differences. It indicates that the content system of physical activity for young children constructed by the study can effectively promote the development of gross motor movements of young children and is better than the content of school-based physical activity.

KEYWORDS

Movement development, early childhood physical education, early childhood physical activity, system construction

CITE THIS PAPER

Zonghang Cao, An Empirical Study of Physical Activity for 4-5 Year Olds from the Perspective of Movement Development. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2022) Vol. 5: 74-84. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2022.051313.

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