2024 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 17-31
The purpose of this study was to verify changes in the knowledge of physical activity and health in programs linking physical education and health education classes.
In this program, we taught 63 6th grade elementary school children (32 boys and 31 girls) about “physical fitness” in PE classes and about “disease prevention” in health education classes. We taught “the knowledge of physical activity and health” encompassing “type, duration, intensity, frequency, and effect of exercise” in both classes. We gave them a questionnaire survey was conducted three times: before the classes, in the middle of the classes, and after the classes. They were asked to write free descriptions. We analyzed these descriptions using text mining.
The main result was as follows. There was an increase in descriptions related to “type of exercise” and “intensity of exercise”. Therefore, “the knowledge of physical activity and health” had changed before, during, and after the classes. It was suggested that there was an effect of programs linking physical education and health education classes.
