MODULE 1

PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1
SELF TESTING ACTIVITIES
PRELIMS

This course involves basic movement skills for body mechanics, self-testing skills, basic motor
skills, perceptual and manipulative skills, and other movement activities for the improvement
and maintenance of health and physical fitness.

Course Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

COGNITIVE

1. Analyze and discuss the meaning, objectives and values of physical fitness.
2. Acquire knowledge about the history, meaning, phases of gymnastics program.
3. Identify the health related and skill related components of physical fitness.

AFFECTIVE
1. Appreciate the importance of living an active life through physical exercises and
other related movement activities.
2. Develop awareness of the health and fitness benefits of physical exercises.
3. Acquire the values of fitness and health in the various gymnastics activities.
4.
PSYCHOMOTOR
1. Perform the different movements related to physical activities and exercises
2. Demonstrate the proper execution of fundamental gymnastics position of the arms
and feet, stunts and tumbling, pyramid building.
3. Execute the basic skills in gymnastics.

Number of Hours: 2 hours every week for 18 weeks or 36 hours in a semester.

GRADING SYSTEM
Course Requirements Percentile
Activities 25%
Practical 40%
Term Examinations 35%
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100%
PHYSICAL EDUCATION INSTRUCTORS

NAMES DEPARTMENTS FACEBOOK/MESSENGER

JOEL M. CASTELO FORESTRY/HM JOEL CASTELO
JHON CHRISTOPHER SALAZAR EDUCATION JANJAN SALAZAR
MAURINE P. GABRIEL BIT MAURINE GABRIEL
MARIE GOLD AGOY ENGINEERING MARIE GOLD CHE CHE AGOY
I. THE CONCEPT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Success is your desire. It all depends on your physical condition and your activities to
maintain physical conditioning. Physical education or physical fitness, whatever term it may
apply, it all relates to the total well-being of a person, and this total well-being is the most
basic requirement to reach success, the object of your desire. It is the success in your
education, your career and of course your life as a whole.

The first thing to do is ensure a sound physical condition. We know of me who failed to
perfect their dreams because of physical misfortunes. Although Mozart was at all times
successful in his career, but he could have composed more if he did not die at the age of 35.
He was brilliant, yet his physical condition was weak. He died of tuberculosis.

The internet lists known artists, particularly writers who died young and if they are still
alive, they are suffering from physical sickness. Guy de Maupassant lived suffering from
syphilis. Lord Byron looked like a god, yet he suffered from deformed feet. Alain-Fournier
died at the age of 27; Thomas Chatterton died at 17; Anne Bronte died at 29; Stephen
Crane, an American novelist known for his Red Badge of Courage died at the age of 29 due
to tuberculosis. There are still hundreds who could not pursue their dreams because of poor
physical condition.

Today even workers in a white collar jobs are still required to undergo yearly physical
checkup. White collar job though does not demand an extreme physical force, yet workers
need to be physically fit. In fact physical fitness is one of the most basic criteria for a job
application. Many had been denied of the job because of physical unfitness although their
academic preparations are well fit to the job. Permanent appointments are not given to
employees found to be physically unfit. If physical condition is the reason, no labor law can
stop the company from firing any of its employees.

It is a reality that your physical condition today as a student shall be the anchor of your
future, and the future of the people you love, your family, the people who depend on you.
Now is the right time to prepare for the future. The future is rough and whether you will like
it or not, you will face it. Denzel Washington said, “The world is rough and you have to
square it roughly.” You cannot face the rough world in the rough future with your poor
physical condition. The world is like Goliath, big, daring, and cruel. To conquer it, you have
to be David, strong, brave and wise.

Poor health is not just a simple outward expression. It also means a weak personality,
and a weak personality is always synonymous with the so-called “born loser.” Now is the
right time to fix it. Michael Jordan said, “Don’t be stupid; stay in school.”

The Nature of Physical Education

This course exists in the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Most often in the
tertiary it is taken as part of the General Education program. Taken by first year college
students. Regardless of the chosen discipline all students in college are required to take it.
Its content may vary according to the program; the maritime students for instance have
their own physical education activities, yet the idea is that all students must take P.E. to
complete their academic prerequisites. In similar manner, the criminology students have
their own version of physical education activities; they call it defense tactic or shortly
DEFTAC which by its content is a martial art, yet again the idea is that all students must have
activities under the physical education course.
Basically, physical education guides students to acquire growth in their motor skill; it is
highly physical so that in teaching it, it is the most student-centered type of all courses in
college. It transfers knowledge on physical growth by the way of student’s total
participation. Indeed it is student centered.

Its nature, although, physical, cannot set aside from this task of developing other facets of
the students. Along with its basic component of developing the motor skills of students, it
also has a part of developing students’ talent. The course physical education this time, also
includes art appreciation, particularly dancing. There is no wonder why many times
professors of physical education are called to judge a dancing contest. A story circulated
that legendary action star Jean Claude Van Dame first mastered the art of ballet dancing
before he became expert in the tactics of self-defense.

Physical education could also be looked at as extra-curricular activities which include sports,
games, dance, gymnastics, and recreational activities. Some schools of the country involve
in their physical education some locally developed sports, martial arts like karate,
taekwondo, and others.

What is Physical Education?

Physical Education is an educational process, which includes the acquisition and refinement
of motor skills, the development and maintenance of fitness for optimal health and well-
being, the attainment of knowledge and the growth of positive attitudes toward physical
activity.

The Aims of Physical Education

In doing the most basic function of physical education is to ensure physical fitness. Three
important aspects of a person are also developed and these are psychomotor, cognitive and
affective.

Psychomotor
It is the basic function of physical education – to build up physical strength of the person. It
develops organic system of the human body whose outcome is power to resist fatigue. It
trains the body to sustain hardship. Particularly, physical fitness offers the following
development in the human psychomotor:
1. Cardio-respiratory Endurance. Swimming, running and other forms of exercises are the
basic components of physical education/ These physical activities freely allows the
oxygen and nutrients to travel into the tissues thus removes the waste in the body.
Constant performance of the exercises washes away the toxins.
2. Muscular Strength and Endurance. Physical fitness provides the ability of the muscles to
exert and sustain force against weight or other forms of resistance. It is well
demonstrated in the muscular strength of a person who used weight lifting. Aside from
the strength, muscles could sustain heavy objects in a long period of time.
3. Flexibility. Constant practice of sit and reach provides trainings on flexibility of the legs.
These results to ability of the muscles’ extreme reach.
4. Body Composition. This refers to the matching of lean mass and fat mass components of
the body. It develops proportion of the body.

Along with these enumerated improvements of the body, physical fitness also assumes
development in speed, the component of physical fitness that means the capability to hold a
continuous movement in a short period of time. The short period of time may be explained
in 100-m sprint finished in a short period. Agility, the ability to change position in a flash of a
second; balance, a skill under physical fitness that refers to the maintenance of stability
while in static or stationary coordinated movements, the skill to see and hear at the same
time while the body is moving or performing a task; power, the combination of speed and as
strength to perform challenging activity as in punch of a boxer, and reaction time, a
response to stimulus to move, from the beginning of the movement up to the end.

Cognitive

It is about the intellectual capabilities of a person; particularly physical education which

develops the students’ knowledge to solve problems; it provides understanding of the rules.
As students, they learn how to follow the basic standard in sports. Strategies to outdo the
opponent are also training to solve problem in life. It is about physical movements so that
students could practice to analyze the underlying movements in a movement.

Affective

Generally, it is the aim of education to develop the emotional skills of students. Specifically,
this aim is fulfilled in the physical education course. It involves games usually played in a
team which eventually develops the students’ sportsmanship. Since students play as a team,
this develops the sense of belonging, cognition of the strength of others; it develops respect
and finally love. Physical education develops leadership, cooperation, discipline, self-control
and honesty.

Other Benefits of Physical Education

1. Technologically driven games make the young people physically inactive. This situation
makes physical education very important in school. One could notice that indigenous
games that require physical agility and mental alertness are gone. Children now
congregate in the internet cafes playing video games.
2. For proper growth and development, exercises require in the physical education classes
are necessary. It is the basic purpose in including PE as a required course even in the
basic education namely; elementary and secondary.
3. For good health and physical fitness, physical education is still very important. There is
no doctor who would not prescribe regular exercises to patient with advanced or
developing physical problem.
4. Physical education prevents people from acquiring various sickness and diseases.
5. Physical education provides information about the person’s physical condition.
6. Physical education does not only train the students in sports. It teaches them to
internalize the value of sports and its related benefits. Even outside school, in the
students’ later life, they could do physical exercises by themselves.
7. Aside from physical development, it teaches students the value of sportsmanship,
behavior and emotional related controls.
8. Physical education basically aims to develop physical fitness and to maintain it.
9. Physical education provides students’ avenue to develop aesthetic inclination like
dancing. It teaches students to be graceful in movements which after all, the basic
requirement to illustrate beauty of dance.
10. Physical education is also a form of releasing anger, tension, or frustration. In
psychology there is a term “defense mechanism.” An angry man punches any object
rather than the person who is the source of his anger. In such a case, punching bag and
other items in the gymnasium could be a good form of defense mechanism.
Historical Foundation of Physical Education

By the nature of their society, primitive men had to move from one settlement to another. It was a
nomadic society, and the members were gregarious. There were long rivers to fish and wide forest to
hunt. It was a life highly vested on the physical stamina of the persons. Primitive men engaged in killing
another man to protect themselves from enemies or rough environments.

One could surmise that the early men’s physical activities were not entirely of their own disposition. The
physical world they lived in demands them to be physically fit. It even looked like that, their sole survival
in the early time depended mainly on physical strength.

But it was not like that way in certain parts of the orient, particularly China. There was a time when the
Chinese people were chiefly concerned on their intellectual well-being. They almost forgot the physical
side of man. There was dancing, singing, and other forms of relaxation but these were only allowed to
the rich families.

Sickness and diseases of all types came which affected much of their economy. The Chinese learned it
came from sedentary lives. A common presumption was that the dead produced nothing; the weak
produced a little and the healthy produced more. Learning about these, the Chinese came up with the
idea of forming of what they called then as medical gymnasium. There was Con Fu gymnastic which
basic purpose was to keep the body in good condition and to ward off diseases caused by immobility.

A similar situation happened in India. Too absorbed on intellectual excellence they neglected physical
fitness. To restore balance between mind and body, the Indian people came up with their Yoga
composed of exercises in a posture that regulated breath.

In Greece, some known men proposed physical fitness as prevention for any form of diseases. Plato
suggested music and gymnastic to be included in the curriculum. He found these two courses very
important in developing both the body and mind of the students. Herodotus considered physical
education as aid to medicine. Gaelen said that physical education was part of the basic hygiene and a
very important support to medicine. Xenophon took physical fitness a very important aspect of the
military; it was essential to victory.

In the middle ages of Europe (5th to 15th century A.D.), the period known today as the dark ages; dark
because it was a period of ignorance. As illustrated on the people’s submission to superstitions. Physical
education in this period was also dark. The people’s chief concern was perfection of life for the next
world. The successful life depended on the mental and intellectual development which caused the
neglect of worldly pleasures including physical fitness.

The fate of physical education in Europe was partly restored in the age of feudalism and renaissance. It
was in these two periods when physical activities were taken as part of military nature. The body should
be hardened to finish whatever task. A good physical condition promoted learning. Health of the body
was a preparation for a social and moral life. Still in Europe, the development of physical education and
its acceptability to the people and in the academe were well explained in the publications of some books
on physical education and other works.

In the Philippines, during the early times, physical fitness was also a mode of survival, for the defense of
their villages and for the survival against the rough environment. The Filipinos are basically farmers and
fishermen, the systems of living that demanded extreme physical fitness. On matters of sports
development, no one in the world would deny the greatest contribution of the Filipinos to it. The
world’s number one boxer as of this writing is a Filipino, and the third after this greatest boxer in the
world is also a Filipino. Likewise, the number one billiard player in the world is also a Filipino.

Historically, the formal inclusion of the physical education in the curriculum was made during the
American period. A series of orders and government mandates all related to physical education came
about up to the present time. Sport activities in the country were only interrupted by the Japanese
occupation. After that short break of physical activities went on again because sports stream down into
the Filipino blood.

Today, physical education is an integral part of the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels of
education. No one can graduate without finishing the required number of units in physical education.
Year after year, new kinds of games locally developed by Filipinos comes in and finds a place in the
sports department of the schools all across the country.
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Activity Sheet #1

POINTS OF DISCUSSION

A. Direction:

1. How important is physical fitness to the success of a person?

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2. The contribution of physical education to a person’s psychomotor, affective, and cognitive.
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3. The historical development of physical education in other parts of the world.

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4. The development of physical education in the Philippines.

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 5. The contribution of the Olympic game to the historical development of physical education.
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B. Direction: Direction: Classify the following values, skills, traits based on the discussion in accordance
to the objectives to Physical Education. (20 pts.)

Agility Creativity Sportsmanship

Cooperation Recognition Speed

Power Appreciation Mental Alertness

Strategies Endurance Honesty

Flexibility Concentration Strength

Problem Solving Balance Leadership

Love Analysis

COGNITIVE PSYCHOMOTOR AFFECTIVE

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