Abstract
The purpose of this study was to implement a teaching plan for 3rd grade elementary school swimming classes involving pushing off the wall and gliding in a streamlined position and to verify its effectiveness. The verification class targeted 13 children (5 boys and 8 girls) who were not good at exercise.
The main results are summarized as follows:
•In the verification class, pushing off the wall and gliding in a streamlined position were significantly improved in terms of the “reaching distance” and the movement scores for all of the evaluated parameters, i.e. “sinking”, “kicking out”, “recoil action”, “arms”, “head”, “trunk”, “legs”, and “horizontal posture”.
•Formative evaluations of the verification class suggested that it guaranteed the subjective learning outcomes of the target children.
The study results suggested that the learning plan effectively improved the proficiency of 3rd grade elementary school children at pushing off the wall and gliding in a streamlined position.
