The Knowledge of Early Education Schoolgirls about Teaching Aids Used in Physical Education Classes

Abstract

<b>Introduction:</b> Apart from knowledge, teaching aids also play a major role in teaching and improving motor skills, particularly in early school education. They not only facilitate the implementation of the teaching process but also trigger and reinforce educational activity. <br/><b>Aim of the study:</b> The aim of the presented research was to establish the state of knowledge of primary education schoolgirls, grade 1-3, about the sport equipment that should be used in physical education classes and various sport disciplines. <br/><b>Material and methods:</b> The research had a continuous character and covered a group of 267 girls aged 7 to 9. The schoolgirls came from randomly selected village schools in the neighbourhood of Krakow. <br/><b>Results:</b> As the results of the research show the state of knowledge of the schoolgirls about the basic teaching aids used in physical education classes can be generally recognized as average. What the surveyed schoolgirls found most difficult was providing correct names for such equipment as: a badminton racket, gym stick, gym hoop and ringo. Among all the teaching aids illustrated in the test, the surveyed best recognized balls used in team games (football, volleyball and basketball). In this case as many as 93% of 9 year old girls answered correctly. <br/><b>Conclusions:</b> Generally, in all analysed questions the research results show a statistically significant (level p ≤ 0.05) improvement of the girls’ knowledge on tools and equipment used for work out with increasing age.

Auxiliary Teaching of Badminton Basic Movements Based on Wireless Network Communication and Kinect

“…Although the communication rate is relatively slow, the communication data volume of badmintonassisted training is only one byte per second, which can fully meet the needs of the system. The Zigbee technology can support network operation well, but it occupies relatively few hardware resources [24,25]. Through a comprehensive comparison with other short-range wireless communication technologies, in systems with limited resources but more sensitive to interference, such as badminton teaching, it is more appropriate to use this technology as a wireless communication method [26].…”