Higher Grade Elementary Students Research Articles

Relationships between Snacking Frequency, Lifestyle Factors, and Dietary Habits among Higher Grade Elementary Students

Relationships between Snacking Frequency, Lifestyle Factors, and Dietary Habits among Higher Grade Elementary Students

Gender Differences in the Predictive Variables of the Higher Grade Elementary Students' Teacher Attachment Using Data Mining

Gender Differences in the Predictive Variables of the Higher Grade Elementary Students' Teacher Attachment Using Data Mining

Development and Evaluation of a Safety Education Program for Injury Prevention in Elementary School Students

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the effects of a safety education injury prevention program in elementary school students. Methods: To develop the safety education program, Dick & Carey's teaching model and Keller's ARCS theory were applied. A safety education programs was developed for lower grade students (1st-3rd) and for higher grade students (4th-6th). To evaluate the effect of the safety education program, a pre-post test questionnaire was used with experimental and control groups. The participants were 238 (119 in the experimental group, 119 in the control group) lower (3th) grade and 296 (148 in the experimental group, 148 in the control group) higher (5th) grade elementary school students. For students in each experimental group, safety education was provided for 40 min once a week for 10 weeks. Results: There were significant differences in the level of injury prevention knowledge, attitude, and practice between the experimental group and control group in both the lower and higher grade elementary students. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that safety education is an effective nursing intervention to improve injury prevention knowledge, attitude, and practice in elementary school students.

<b>小学校高学年児童のリバウンドジャンプ能力と走り幅跳びの鉛直速度および踏切動作との相互関係 </b>

The purpose of this study was to investigate interrelationship among rebound jump (RJ) ability, vertical velocity and take-off motions at running long jump in higher-grade elementary students. The subjects were 110 boys and 113 girls who were fifth and sixth-graders at elementary school. They were filmed in the takeoff phase, and rebound jump ability (RJ-index = RJ-height / contact time) was measured. The students were dividing into three groups based on RJ ability: Excellent (E), Medium (M) and Poor (P) groups. Measured kinematics during takeoff were compared among these three groups, and relationships between vertical velocity and takeoff motions were studied. The main results were as follows: 1)Boys and girls in E group showed higher touch down, takeoff velocities, vertical velocity at takeoff and longer jumping distance, respectively, than the other groups. Moreover trunk angle during takeoff in E group showed smaller forward inclination, although there was no significant difference all kinematics on knee angle, for either boys or girls.2) E group in the boys showed a greatest takeoff angle among three groups, and a larger decrease in horizontal velocity and a larger generation vertical velocity during latter takeoff phase, and a smaller foot angle displacement than the other groups.3)E group in the girls showed a higher vertical velocity at maximum knee flexion than the other groups.4) The significant correlation in both boys and girls was found between vertical velocity at takeoff and trunk angle at touch down, although no significant correlation was between vertical velocity at takeoff and all sections on knee angle, either boys or girls. The significant correlation in boys was found between vertical velocity at takeoff and foot angular displacement during take-off, and in girls was found between vertical velocity at maximal knee flexion and foot angle at touch down.It is concluded that there was interrelationship RJ ability, vertical velocity and takeoff motions in the higher graders of elementary school.