Activating teaching methods and their effect on the physical activity of the knowledge of healthy way of life among 7 - 8 form student in a basic school

According to the scientific research schoolchildren lack knowledge of healthy way of life and physical education. Most researchers claim that students health is getting worse and physical inactivity, smoking. Irrational nutrition has been spreading. However, school physical education research is mostly based on the development of schoolchildren physical abilities of various body systems. Thees the experiment was carried out to investigate the incorporation of theoretical lessons on physical education and healthy way of life into the process of physical training by using using different activating methods. Research objective: To investigate the efficiency of activating teachings methods and their effect on the physical activity and acquistition of the knowledge oh healthy way of life among 7 -8 fom students in a basic school. 386 schoolchildren participated in the pedagogical experiment conducted in Vilnius „Emilijos Pliaterytės” basic school from September 2004 till March 2005. Research methods used in a Masters thesis were as follows: analysis of literature, questionnaire methods, pedagogical experiment, mathematical, statistical analysis. The change in the knowledge of the healthy way of life and physical educations was determined by a questionnaire method during the period of experiment. Activating methods (discussions, debates, brainstorming, each student active invillvement) were used in experimental gruops to extend and improve students knowledgw of healthy way of life and to promote their physical activity. The results of the experiment carried out in Vilnius „Emilijos Pliaterytės” basic school has shown that pupils, general and methodical knowledge is poor. Schoolchildren lacked elementary knowledge. Moreover, there is a tendency that girls are more capable of acquiring methodical knowledge, but pupils knowledge has been gained outside scool on informal communication level. The data of the educational experiment conducted among 7 – 8 form pupils have shown that the integration of the knowledge of physical training and healthy way of life into lessons had a positive effect on the students knowledge: during the research period the level of general and methodical knowledge has changed in both experimental groups, statistically there has beennoticed a significant increase. (p