Physical activity for the development of motor skills in time of pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this research was to verify the level of influence that physical activity carried out by students in the context of the health emergency caused by covid-19, has on the development of motor skills. It was framed in a descriptive and comparative quasi-experimental methodology. The sample consisted of 25 6-year-old students corresponding to the second year of the General Basic Elementary Education sublevel. For data collection, an estimation scale-type instrument was designed adapted to the dimensions of locomotion: walking, running and jumping in different ways; manipulation dimension: throw and catch; This instrument was validated through the method of similarities by judgment of seven specialist experts in physical education and researchers with publications in the last five years. In the results obtained, it is stated that there was a significant increase in the means of the basic motor skills studied, there was also a significant increase in the means of motor skills in both the female and male groups. It is concluded that it was possible to verify that the skills with performance criteria, in which the motor skills were addressed, were developed satisfactorily in a remote education caused by covid-19, that is, there is a positive and moderate correlation due to the significant increase in the means of motor skills studied after treatment based on physical activity.