My Notes – Early Childhood Education Diploma » Blog Archive » Equipments & Props for Physical Education & Curricumlum Integration

There are many types of equipments and props for children to use for movement activities.

Example of equpiments:
Slide, see saw, swing, climber, balancing beam, platform, sand pit, tire(tyre)

Example of props:
Tunnel, rhythm stick, parachute, scarve, beanbag, shaker, skipping rope, ball, mat, hoop, streamer

Physical education can be integrated in other subjects. Example:

    Language art:
    They can learn about “front”, “back”, “up”, “down”, “stand”, “sit”, “crawl”, “creep”, “forward”, “backward” etc using the props or equipments.

    Art:
    They can explore colours, shape, line, texture when drawing, colouring, cutting etc. Movements are involved indirectly such as fine and gross motorskill.

    Mathematics
    They can learn about the concept of size, stacking, sorting, matching, numbers, geometry and computation.

    Science
    They can explore, navigate, solve problem, and discovery with their body such as senses, nutrition, hygience, gravity etc.

Advantages of integrating other subjects with physical activities are:

  • Children will be readily attend to the learning task
  • Children can deal with reality
  • Result oriented, easy to monitor the ability and the understanding of the children
  • Enhance their senses
  • Provide them with incentive, when they are successful in doing certain movement, they will feel the satisfaction even though no material things are given
  • Encourage positive attitudes
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