Class Aquatic Activities - Adaptation to Aquatic Environment, Swimming and Hydro-gymnastics (Option I - Exercise and Wellness)

Portugal is a country undoubtedly connected to water, an element that constitutes 50% of its frontiers, where access to the river spaces grows and in which, since the decade of 90, the built aquatic spaces proliferate. In these spaces, the aquatic activities associated with leisure and the promotion of welfare play an important role that justifies the preparation of specialized technicians who, in a harmonious way, integrate into the foundations of their intervention, in addition to the competencies of a safe leadership, the biomechanical, physiological and pedagogical assumptions and also the human development knowledge, as well as a knowledge of the professional context in order to perceive its sustainability.

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Aquatic activities as an economic activity - a balance between pedagogy and commercial management. Quality criteria of the facilities. The risks and benefits of aquatic practices in the context of health/development. Historical and pedagogical framework for baby swimming. Maturation/learning relationship. The aquatic skills in the dimensions of displacement, breathing, balance, and underwater orientation. The concept of "aquatic readiness". Baby Swimming methodology. Pedagogical guidance in preschool age. Analysis of swimming efficiency, evaluation, the definition of objectives, and prescription in the techniques of pure swimming. The water Polo, synchronized swimming and rescue swimming in the context of fitness: the teaching-learning process. Hydrogymnastics: Framing; Hydrodynamics and applied physiology; Musical application; Parts of the class and its developments; flotation and resistance equipment; base class variants; Working with specific populations.

We use affirmative methods, with multimedia resources (text, image and video), in the exhibition of theoretical and interrogative and active contents in the analysis of concrete cases resulting from the presence of children in class (in the adaptation to the aquatic environment), from reciprocal teaching (swimming) and aquatic exercise activities.

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