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Physical Development in Primary Schoolers

Module 18 focuses on the physical development of primary schoolers, highlighting key aspects such as muscle control, coordination, and personal hygiene. It discusses the factors influencing growth, including genetics, exercise, and nutrition, and emphasizes the importance of promoting an active lifestyle. The module also outlines developmental skills like coordination, balance, speed, agility, and power that are crucial during this stage.

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Physical Development in Primary Schoolers

Module 18 focuses on the physical development of primary schoolers, highlighting key aspects such as muscle control, coordination, and personal hygiene. It discusses the factors influencing growth, including genetics, exercise, and nutrition, and emphasizes the importance of promoting an active lifestyle. The module also outlines developmental skills like coordination, balance, speed, agility, and power that are crucial during this stage.

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MODULE 18 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLERS

LEARNING OUTCOMES
In this module challenge yourself to:

* Describe the different physical characteristics of early school- aged in your


own words.
*Enumerate the ideas on how you can apply the concepts in this module in
the learning process
*Discuss several ways on how to encourage age-appropriate active physical
lifestyle to primary school children.

INTRODUCTION:
Physical development involves many different factors: height, weight,
appearance, visual hearing and motor abilities. Primary school children
undergo many different changes as they go through this stage of
development. This could be caused by different factors, both natural and
environmental.
DURING THIS STAGE, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT INVOLVES:
1) Having good muscles control and development
2) Developing eye-hand colordination
3) Having good personal hygiene
4)Being aware of good safety habits

HEIGHT AND WEIGHT


This period of gradual and steady growth will give children
time tol get used tol changes in thier bodies. an increase in
height of a little over two inches a year in both boys and girls
will introduce them with many different activities that they
can now do with greater accuracy.
FACTORS COLULD INDICATE HOW MUCH A CHILD GROWS

*GENES *EXERCISE
*FOOD *MEDICAL CONDITIONS
*CLIMATE *DISEASES /ILLNESSES

BONES AND MUSCLES


Childhood years are the peak bone producing years bonesgrow
longer and bbroader. The best time for parents and teachers to
educate children of good dietary and exercise habits to help
them have [Link] bones throughout thier lives. Many
lifestyle factors, like nutrition and physical activity, can
substantially influence the increase of bone mass during
childhood .
MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

Young school -aged children are gaining control over the


major muscles of thier [Link] children have a good
sense of balance. During this stage children love to move a
lot. they run, skip, hop, jump, tumble roll and [Link]
thier gross motor skills already develop.

Unimanual- use of one hand


Bi-manual- required use of two-hands become easier.
DEVELOPMENT SKILLS INCLUDE COORDINATION, BALANCE,
SPEED, AGILITY, AND POWER.

COORDINATION
Is a series movement organized and time to occur in a
particular way to bring about a particular result the more
complex movement is the greater coordination is required
children develop eye-hand and eye-foot coordination when
they play games and sports.

BALANCE
is a child's ability to maintain equilibrium or stability in
his/her body positions.
• STATIC BALANCE
• is ability to maintain equilibrium in a fixed [Link]
balancing in foot.

• DYNAMIC BALANCE
• Is the ability to maintain equilibrium while moving
• SPEED
• Is the ability to cover a great distance in the shortest
• possible time
• AGILITY
• is ones ability to quickly change or shift the direction of the
body.
• POWER
• is the ability to perform a maximum effort in the shortest

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