Instructional Activity Instructional Strategy Based on Integrated Physical Performance with Collaborative Learning to Enhance Physical Health and Mental Health Development for Seventh Grade Students

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Abstract

The appropriate practices, that related body expression and collaborative learning strategies, can improve the behavior competencies of students, that related physical fitness, relieve stress, anxiety, and depression, and also enhance positive emotional experiences, self-awareness, and understand their physical abilities and mental health successfully. The purpose of this study were to: (1) Compare the physical health of seventh grade students between before and after learning through physical expression and collaborative learning strategies, and (2) Compare the mental health of seventh grade students between before and after learning through physical expression and collaborative learning strategies. The research samples composed of 30 Seventh Grade students, that obtained by Cluster Random Sampling method, from Zhou Enlai Middle School in Jiangsu, China. The research instruments were composed of instructional plans, the assessment form for evaluating physical function and psychological changes, conducted as a pre-test before intervention and as a post-test after intervention completion. Data collection includes students' physical expression ability test papers and psychological assessment scales. The intervention results showed that the improvement in the experimental group was statistically significant.

These findings indicate that: (1) Students learned based on physical expression and collaborative learning strategy had higher of physical health than before learning at the .05 level of significance, and (2) Students learned based on physical expression and collaborative learning strategy had higher of mental health than before learning at the .05 level of significance.

Keywords: Physical Expression, Collaborative Learning, Physical Health, Mental Health