Teaching Approaches to Learn Theoretical Contents in Physical Education: A Study about Contour Lines

Fostering student's map reading skills, specifically understanding contour lines, is a challenging area of the Physical Education curriculum. 238 students in their first year of secondary education (Mage = 13.1) were randomly assigned to one of these experimental conditions in physical educatio...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-11, Vol.17 (22), p.8599
Main Authors: Bores-Calle, Nicolás Julio, Escudero, Ana, Bores-García, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curriculum - statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Learning
Male
Physical Education and Training - methods
Students
Teaching
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Summary:Fostering student's map reading skills, specifically understanding contour lines, is a challenging area of the Physical Education curriculum. 238 students in their first year of secondary education (Mage = 13.1) were randomly assigned to one of these experimental conditions in physical education classes: (a) Teaching intervention 1 (TI-1): integrating the concept of contour lines into practical sessions of acrobatic gymnastics; (b) TI-2: theoretical sessions regarding contour lines; (c) Active control (AC): reading an introductory text about topographic maps; and two passive controls (PC) without any intervention, (d) PC-1 and (e) PC-2. All students, except for PC-2, improved their knowledge of contour lines. Nevertheless, performing corporal figures (in TI-1) and employing pointing and tracing gestures (in TI-2) helped students to correctly resolve a broader range of tasks. The results highlighted the benefits of teaching proposals that favor movement and the experience of the body.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph17228599