This thesis focuses on the analysis of physical activity of older school-age childen. The work is divided into theoretical and research part. The theoretical part is devoted to child obesity and feature an older school-age period in terms of psychological, physical as well as locomotor development. The research part addresses the processing of questionnaires and subsequent comparison of physical activity in older school-age children in selected primary schools. The aim of public opinion survey is to compare physical activity and their relationship to them among girls and boys at rural and urban schools. It was found that 80% of children are involved in some sports activity in their free time. The boys are engaged in physical activities more than girls and also enjoy it more than them. Most children attend after-school sports club more than sports activities offered at school. Another finding was that children spend every day at the computer the same amount of time regardless whether they are from the city or village. An interesting finding was that BMI calculation shown that large number of children falls within the boundaries of underweight, its 26%. Normal weight is 62.9% of children and overweight is 10%. Only 2.5% of children are obese.

This thesis examines the health habits of the primary school children at smallclass schools. It deals with the problem to which extent children follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle in everyday life, especially in the area of physical activity, sleep, organization of daily routine and extent of mental strain. The theoretical part summarizes knowledge of the characteristics of younger school age period and its development in the physical, mental and social context. Other chapters focus on the hygiene habits, mental hygiene, sleep and its disorders. Attention is also paid to the nophysical activity, nutrition, and their relationship to health. The research part presents the current results of the survey, to which there were used: A standardized questionnaire Řehulka (1987), Timetable of the day (Mužík, Bártová, 2010) and registration of physical activity with using a pedometer. This is a qualitative and quantitative research, which 78 children from four selected smallclass schools have been subjected to. The results show that there were not alarming deficiencies in fulfilling the above aspects of a healthy lifestyle.

The aim of this diploma thesis was to create a set of floorball exercises for the primary school, which will then be tested in practice. It was an experiment with two groups of pupils. The first test had taken place three months before practicing floorball exercises and after that the second test was carried out. Research carried out has shown that the three-month training floorball activities contributed positively to the results of both groups. In the slalom test, the Chickens group has improved more from 16,9 to 14,8 and the Cocks group from 9 seconds to 8,3 seconds. In the relay test the Chickens group has scored more significant improvement again from 36,6 seconds to 29,8 seconds and the Cocks group from 30,2 seconds to 28,9 seconds. In the test of shooting accuracy has improved both groups, the Chickens group from 4,9 goals to 6,8 goals and the Cocks group from 5,5 goals to 7,5 goals. The contribution of this work is a set of exercises that teachers and coaches can use in practice.

Dentro de cada ser há um “relógio” interno que regula os ciclos diários da alimentação, sono, vigília, e até mesmo humor. É assim que ocorre: quando sentimos fome devemos comer e quando sentimos sono devemos dormir. As atividades diárias, a imposição de um horário, seja de trabalho ou escolar, afetam de maneira distinta cada pessoa, sendo que para algumas estas determinações atendem em “cheio” a suas preferências e para outras exigem um enorme esforço; muitas vezes, essa adaptação é impossível. Assim sendo, há horas do dia em que cada aluno está mais disposto a fazer determinadas tarefas, como as escolares entre outras. Neste contexto, identificaram-se os grupos de alunos quanto à alocação do ciclo vigília/sono: estudo de suas características e de suas relações com o processo de ensino aprendizagem, validando a Escala Matutino/Vespertino (que resultou no primeiro artigo citado nessa tese). Validada a Escala, o principal objetivo desta tese é relacionar os grupos de alunos de ambos os cronotipos (matutino/vespertino) com o turno escolar e o rendimento escolar, assim como algumas atividades que gosta de realizar fora da sala de aula, com alunos de uma escola pública de Ensino Médio e com alunos de cinco escolas públicas de Ensino Fundamental do Município de Farroupilha/RS. Observando que os resultados apresentados do Ensino Médio e Fundamental não foram os mesmos, foi analisado ao longo das idades da amostra, dos 11 aos 17 anos, foram relacionadas às variáveis: idade, cronotipo (matutino/vespertino), turno escolar, rendimento escolar e a taxa de reprovação. Os resultados levaram a conclusão que alunos matutinos do Ensino Fundamental (dos 11 aos 14 anos de idade) apresentam significativamente um rendimento escolar superior aos demais grupos de alunos no turno da manhã, consequentemente, menor taxa de reprovação. No Ensino Médio (15 aos 17 anos de idade) o grupo que apresentou rendimento significativamente superior aos demais grupos foi o dos alunos matutinos que estudam no turno da tarde. Os resultados contribuem para uma melhor compreensão entre o ritmo biológico/rendimento escolar/turno escolar em distintos níveis escolares e desta forma ajudar pais, escolas e políticas educacionais no sentido de aprimorar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem. O relato de caso aqui apresentado sugere uma interferência do ritmo circadiano no rendimento escolar. Entretanto, estudos com amostragens maiores e mais diversificados são necessários para propor este parâmetro como integrante de políticas públicas a serem adotadas evitando o efeito negativo do ciclo vigília/sono individual sobre o rendimento escolar. / Within each one there is a "clock" that regulates the internal dailycycles of eating, sleeping, waking, and even humor. So it happens: when we feel hungry we eat and when we feel sleepy we sleep. The daily activities, the setting of a time, affects each person differently, whether at work or school, and to some person these determinations is"perfect" to their preferences, and others determinations requires ahuge effort, and often, this adaptation is impossible. Thus, there are times of day that each student is more willing to do certain tasks, such as homework and others. In this context, we identified groups ofstudents by the allocation of the sleep / wake cycle, by studying their characteristics and their relationships with the teaching and learning process and validating the scale Morning / Evening, which resulted inthe first article of this thesis. With the validated scale, the main objective of this thesis is to associate groups of students from both chronotype (morning/afternoon) with school hours and school performance, at first with students from a public high school and later with students from five public schools in elementary school, in thecity of Farroupilha- RS. Noting that the results of the elementary school and high school were not the same, we analyzed the influence of the age of students: from 11 to 17 years. Related variables were: age, chronotype (morning / afternoon), school hours, school performance andfailure rate. The results showed that morning of elementary school students (from 11 to 14 years old) had a significantly higheracademic achievement to other groups of students on the morning shiftand a lower failure rate. In high school (15 to 17 years old), the morning group studying in the afternoon showed significantly higher yield than the other students. With this information, the schools, parents and the Departments of Education might rethink the best school hours to attend school and get better returns. Even the case report presented here suggest a circadian rhythm interference with school performance studies with a larger with sample is needed to indicate it as public politics to be adopted to avoid the negative effect of the sleep / wake cycle on individual school performance.

The aim of my diploma work was focusing on motivation to art activity and creativity of children of younger school age in the pedagogy of leisure time. The art project {\clq}{\clq}The four seasons`` focuses on aim to clarify the children of younger school age the nature, habits, traditions and further interests of single seasons and to motivate them to their own art activity and arouse enthusiasm and creativity. These aims are in the project achieved by literarily-dramatic, artistic, locomotory, environmental and experimental education. In the conclusion I mention phenomenoms, which arose during the realization of the project ``The four seasons`` and I summarize my findings and knowledge.

One of the important milestones in the development of a child is the transition into primary school. Unaddressed issues at the beginning of attendance can have negative impact on the later life of the individual. In the process of adaptation the child's preconditions are met with the external factors. There exists a body of research in this area, however only a fraction was based on the testimony of children themselves. The aim of this thesis is thus to map which aspects of the adaptation to school education can be grasped and described by children themselves. This thesis sums up what we know about the developmental stage of a first grader. The knowledge of prerequisites for reflecting one's own experience and its hindrances is essential. The following chapters focus on the external factors that influence the child during his or her transition into primary school. The research part focuses on how first graders perceive school and everything connected with it; its supportive and challenging aspects. The method used to collect data is a group associative verbal expression and drawing based on given questions. The children perceived as supportive mainly activities connected with play and movement. As challenging they perceived interactions with their peers, demands on discipline and pressure towards...

xiv, 149 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Three types of literate words, including abstract nouns (freedom, challenge), mental state verbs (assume, explain), and derivatives (relationship, respectful), were examined in narrative and expository writing in typically developing children and adolescents. It was predicted that older students would use literate words more frequently than younger students, and that literate words would occur more frequently in expository writing than in narrative writing. One hundred and twenty typically developing children and adolescents including forty 5th graders, forty 8th graders, and forty 11th graders wrote one narrative and one expository essay at school. The results showed that genre had a substantial impact on the use of literate words in the writing of school-age children and adolescents. except metalinguistic verbs. Moreover, literate words were used significantly more often in expository than in narrative text, except derived adjectives. Additionally, metalinguistic verbs occurred more often in narrative writing than expository writing; however, the difference was not statistically significant. Age-related increases occurred in the use of abstract nouns, derived nominals, early/late developing metacognitive verbs and late developing metalinguistic verbs in narrative writing. Age-related increases also occurred in the use of derived adjectives, and late developing metacognitive and metalinguistic verbs in expository writing. The present study adds to the knowledge base concerning the development of literate word use in narrative and expository writing in typically developing children and adolescents. / Adviser: Marilyn Nippold

This diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part contains the characteristics of school age, basic physiology of hearing and voice, describes the development of musical abilities and their classification. It also defines the basic concepts of music psychology, describes some of the basic methodology of music education and addresses issues of motivation at school. The practical part consists of a project for school clubs on "Round the world journey". The project focuses on developing musical skills and abilities through play, building positive relationships within the group and learning about the culture of other nations.

This work is focused on monitoring changes in selected somatic characteristics and motor performance of girls aged 7 and 10 years. The research was also focused on diet and lifestyle of the girls and their parents. The research was conducted at five different primary schools (Tábor, Soběslav, České Budějovice, Tvrdonice). Twenty six somatic dimensions, two functional tests and five motor tests for motor development were measured. There are also presented results of a questionnaire of children and their parents. Some body measurement was used for the calculation of body composition (the weight of the skeleton, the weight of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, the weight of the muscle mass and weight of the rest of the body) and the somatotype. The data were recorded in the pre-record sheets and then they were statistically evaluated and processed into tables and graphs. The obtained results were compared with the previous surveys.

This thesis focuses on the comparison of two different primary school classes, one third grade and one fifth grade, in the area of self-expression through drawing. The theoretical part considers children of younger school age at different stages, followed by further general information about artistic expression and developmental stages of drawing human figures. The practical part of the thesis shows the results of drawing figures, a comparison of human figures, and the standard of drawing such figures in third and fifth grade classes. The results are assessed on the basis of criteria that are laid down in the thesis