Leisure Activities - Grade 4 Physical Health Education Revision Notes

• Active and Passive Leisure Activities.
  • Disadvantages of Passive Activities.
• Leisure and Time management
• Care of Community Recreation Facilities.

Active and Passive Leisure Activities.

• Leisure activities are performed for fun.
• There are mainly two types of leisure.
  1. Passive leisure activities - are activities that someone is not participating in the activity.
  2. Active leisure activities - are those that someone is fully participant
• Leisure activities give us the opportunities to be ourselves and get creative.

Disadvantages of Passive Activities.

• They lead to development of lifestyle problems and diseases. 
• It reduces our creativity and lead to health problems due to long hours spent in sedentary positions

Leisure and Time management

• Time management - is the ability to organize activities one has perform in a given amount of time to leisure time is the free time.
• It is good to take time off from studies and from watching television to engage in a leisure activity individually or with friends.
• Leisure activities include:
  • Reading a story book.
  • Taking nature walks.
  • Volunteering at the local children's home.
  • Taking part in artistic activities such as painting.
  • Listening to music.
  • Attending as sporting activity as a spectator.

Care of Community Recreation Facilities.

• These are sometimes referred to as public facilities and are services offered by the state to its citizens.
• There are various ways of taking care of these facilities.
  • By avoiding littering these areas.
  • Planting trees in these areas.
  • Finding an alternative source of fuel.
  • Drawing graffiti (unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface) on the walls of these areas should be discouraged to preserve their beauty.