Examining the potentiality and the tasks of the fitness education program as the “Karada-tsukuri Exercise” in the elementary physical education classes

The purpose of this study was to examine the potentiality and the tasks of the fitness education program as the "Karada-tsukuri Exercise" in the elementary physical education classes. For examining these potentiality and tasks, it was developed new teaching units that is based on the theory of HELP by Corbin. In this teaching unit, the learning process and the products were measured in terms of student formative evaluation in the fitness education of physical education classes, the learning notes written by the students and the questionnaire of the learning contents. The main findings were as follows: This teaching unit got a high formative instrument focusing on students' interactive and cooperative behaviors in physical 1) These teaching units got a high formative evaluation in the fitness education by the students. However the image to the fitness education could not get a high evaluation in the two classes. 2) By analyzing the questionnaire of the learning contents and the learning notes written by the students, the most of students can learn the content of the fitness and keep the learning product after learning this teaching unit. Especially the learning content of the exercise and the nourishment was effective for student understanding in this teaching unit. 3) These results suggest that this teaching unit has the potentiality as the "Karada-tsukuri Exercise" in the elementary physical education classes