Impact of Gross Motor Activities on the Physical Development of School Children

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to find out the impact of gross motor activities on the physical development of school children to achieve the purpose of the study, a total of twenty-four children (Boys) were selected randomly as participants from the Little Flower Matriculation School, Gandhi Nagar, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. The selected children’s age was ranged from 8 - 12 years. The selected participants were divided in to two groups namely gross motor activity group and control group. keeping in mind the opinion of the experts, availability of equipment’s, acceptability of the participants and the time to be derived the following variables were selected namely Balance, Co-ordination and Reaction Time, the data were statistically analyzed with dependent “t” test and Analysis of Co-Variances (ANCOVA). In all the cases 0.05 levels will be fixed as level of confidence to test the hypotheses. There were a significant improvement takes place on balance ability due to the influence of six weeks gross motor skill training programme. There were a significant improvement takes place on co-ordination ability due to the influence of six weeks gross motor skill training programme. There were a significant improvement takes place on reaction time ability due to the influence of six weeks gross motor skill training programme. There was a significant difference exists between experimental and control groups on balance, co-ordination and reaction time ability among school children. However, the control group had not shown any significant improvement of any of the selected variables among school children.