In the master's thesis we researched the popularity of aerobic dance exercises compared to gymnastic exercises in the introductory part of physical education lesson by fifth-grader’s opinion.
In the theoretical part we defined warming-up, which is a crucial part of every exercise. We described warming-up in the physical education lesson and we focused on warming-up with gymnastic exercises. Afterwards we consecrated on aerobic dance, described its characteristics and centered our attention on aerobic dance in school. We explained the influences of aerobic dance on motor abilities and described the procedure for planning lesson of aerobic dance. We also provided suggestions for the inclusion of aerobic dance into physical education lessons and into others spheres of school activities.
In the empirical part, we obtained results from 24 pupils , which in the school year 2015/2016 attended 5th grade in elementary school Osnovna šola Bičevje in Ljubljana. We wanted to find out, if pupils are more motivated during warming-up with gymnastic exercises or during warming-up with aerobic dance exercises and if pupils are more motivated after warming-up with gymnastic exercises or after warming-up with aerobic dance exercises. Also we wanted to find out, if the girls prefer warming-up with aerobic dance exercises more than boys, if the pupils, who don't like physical education, are more motivated for physical education after warming-up with aerobic dance exercises or after warming-up with gymnastic exercises and whether pupils, which don't attend none of sports interest activities, would be willing to attend the interest activity of aerobic dance.
Results have shown, that pupils were not more motivated during nor after warming-up with aerobic dance exercises, but were more motivated during and after warming-up with gymnastic exercises. In the opposition to previous ascertainments pupils would rather warm-up with aerobic dance exercises than with gymnastic exercises. In addition, we found out, that girls would rather warm-up with dance aerobic exercises than boys. Results have also shown, that pupils who don't like physical education are more motivated for physical education after warming-up with gymnastic exercises. Last finding states, that those pupils, who don't attend any of sport interest activities, would be willing to attend the interest activity of aerobic dance.
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