The importance of physical activities
for all ages and how this sort of thing can be effectively promoted are a main
concern in any kinds of circumstances; at school, home, or other social places.
Physical activities become the prominent health factor for people. This is
applied for all ages, including teenagers. Generally speaking, it is assumed
that the more people get active, the healthier they will be. The advance of
technology has a negative effect on children’s health and they tend to apply
the brain activity rather than their physical activities. This sort of problem
creates a negative effect on children’s health and their physical fitness as
well. Gadgets connected to Internet has a huge impact on activities, causing
ones inactively move. Giving an access to gadgets connected to Internet for
kids and introducing it can decrease their physical activities and make them
reluctant to move (Kobak, et al, 2017).
The study employs quasi experiment
method to gain the data. This means A quasi-experiment is an empirical study used to
estimate the causal impact of an intervention on target population without
random assignment. Quasi-experimental research shares similarities with the
traditional experimental design or randomized controlled trial, but it
specifically lacks the element of random assignment to treatment or control.
Instead, quasi-experimental designs typically allow the researcher to control
the assignment to the treatment condition, but using some criterion other than
random assignment. This study aims to figure out the relationship among the
physical activities, body mass index and physical fitness of the fourth grade
students at Surya Buana Islamic Elementary School through Gross Motor Skill
(GMS) program before and after being given a treatment towards the students’
physical fitness.
Based on the data analysis, discussions
and conclusion drawn from this study, it is highlighted that: (1) The
implementation of gross motor skill program done in Surya Buana Islamic
Elementary School for the fourth grade students ran smoothly and suited with
the situation of both the school and the students (2) The result of the
physical fitness test in general has a significant different between the
experimental and controlled group, with a significant difference of α = 0,05 ,
t-score < t-table (0.722 < 1,701) . Therefore, it
can be concluded that the sum up of the physical fitness test during the
pretest and post-test has no significant difference.