Effect of recreation-oriented tourism program on physical health of middle school-aged children

Abstract

Problem statement. Experts recommend to implement to the school physical education the modern recreation technologies. Today the issue of direct influence of recreation activities on the level of physical health of middle school children is not enough illuminated in the literature. Objective. To determine the influence of recreationoriented tourism program on the level of middle school children physical health. To achieve these objectives we used the following methods: theoretical analysis of scientific and methodological sources; educational experiment; H. Apanasenko’s physical health index, methods of mathematical processing. Material: 149 middle school-aged children participated in the study, including 75 girls and 74 boys. For nine months, children in addition to physical education classes were involved in the extra-curricular groups: 39 boys and 37 boys - in the volleyball group, 36 girls and 37 boys - in the recreational tourism group. Results. It was proved that through special means used in tourism the number of children involved in the recreational tourism group with average physical health level is much bigger than the children involved in the volleyball group among male and female. Conclusion. Physical education on the basis of the use of contemporary recreational tourism technologies is one of the most effective methods of increasing the physical health. According to the received information recreational tourism training may be the key to forming and maintaining the proper health of the middle schoolaged children.