Paper Title
Learning Theoretical Studies Through Physical Activity
Abstract
The present study explored an intervention program which integrated physical activity (PA) through Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) with theoretical learning at primary school. This was a field research designed to improve primary school pupils' attainments in and attitude towards a theoretical subject in geometry. The effectiveness of the intervention program was checked by comparing two experiment groups with two control groups. The experiment groups learnt the topics of angles and symmetries through the intervention program and the two control groups learnt the topics in the customary way which combines teachers' frontal explanation and exercising with the aid of a textbook. The factual conclusions indicated that the intervention program by PA through EWMN enables an integration of theoretical topics learnt at school with topics learnt according to EWMN. Moreover, they illustrated that the intervention program resulted in higher scores and more positive attitude towards the learnt theoretical subject.
Keywords - Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, Theoretical Studies