Aplicación del programa de actividades lúdicas para mejorar la coordinación motriz en básica elemental de la Unidad Educativa ¨Eugenio Espejo¨

Abstract

Coordinative capacities are those that allow the subject to execute movements efficiently, precisely and harmoniously through motor practice. Therefore, their development has a fundamental axis in the human being from early ages to adult ages. If they are not optimally worked in the first years of life, problems may arise in the future related to the integration of conditional physical capacities. The present study, called “Application of a program of recreational activities to improve motor coordination in elementary school at the Eugenio Espejo Educational Unit”, pertains to the city of Cuenca. The proposed objective is to implement a playful program called Tamay to improve the coordination skills of students in the fourth grade of elementary school “A”. This is a quasiexperimental study, where the sample consisted of a total of 30 children from the aforementioned Educational Unit. In order to know the level of coordination capacities, the 3JS test was evaluated before and after the intervention, which allowed the evaluation of global motor coordination from a criterion perspective. Subsequently, a 12-week program of recreational activities was applied. Finally, a comparative analysis of the pre-test and post-test on the effect of the Tamay program on coordination abilities was carried out. The result was positive, where the initial average was 9.76 and the final average was 20.69 out of 28 points, showing significant differences after the intervention program.