Book chapter
Physical environmental influences on students within school playgrounds
Contemporary school playground strategies for healthy students, pp.75-83
Springer
2017
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Abstract
The physical environment is an influence that many students would prefer to be enhanced to provide more opportunities to be active. The physical environment of Australian school playgrounds contains a large proportion of natural environment features (e.g. bushy areas, grassed areas, trees, ponds and water features) and built environment features (e.g. fixed playground equipment, playground markings, sports equipment, sandpits, shade sails, asphalt and concrete areas). An awareness of the physical environmental characteristics of a setting is important prior to implementing any school playground intervention strategy. This chapter will provide an overview for researchers of the physical environment-level influences that have been investigated within school playground activities.
Details
- Title
- Physical environmental influences on students within school playgrounds
- Creators
- Brendon Hyndman - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Brendon Hyndman (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Contemporary school playground strategies for healthy students, pp.75-83
- Publisher
- Springer; Singapore
- Identifiers
- 2790; 991012821240702368
- Copyright
- © 2017 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter