Developing Spatial and Body Schema Orientation in Preschoolers and Primary School through Physical Activities

AbstractThe present research aims at studying, out of the content of psychomotricity, spatial orientation andthe recognition of the body schema, which is basic in the extracurricular physical activity of normal children. Inorder to test the level of acquisition of these qualities in terms of psychomotor learning, subjects included in theresearch took part twice a week in physical activities based on movement games, having as the objective theimprovement of psychomotricity. Their testing was achieved by adapting the test evincing the capacity of spatialorientation and body schema, which is grounded in evincing the capacity of spatial orientation and the degree ofknowledge the child has of its own body, by acknowledging the spatial rapports and operating with specificlanguage. After tests, it was observed that after going through physical activities with the proposed objectives, spatial orientation and bodily scheme had improved significantly, and there is a relationship between games ofmovement within the ...