Introduction:

Games can develop children's language, thoughts, tastes, and memory. They contribute to learning and the growth of basic motor skills and physical capacities. Among them, traditional games help shape healthy, strong children with the tools needed to defend their cultural and identity values.

Aim:

To propose traditional games for the different stages of the Physical Education lesson at the Armando Mestre Marinez Elementary School.

Materials and methods:

A non-experimental study was done, which combined the utilization of several different methods, such as theoretical methods (historical-logical), empirical methods (a questionnaire of Physical Education teachers and third-grade students to collect information about the utilization of traditional games in Physical Education lessons, and documentary analysis of third-grade Physical Education programs. The percentage calculation statistics were processed using SPSS 21.0, for the implementation of descriptive statistics procedures.

Results:

Several different traditional games were suggested for implementation at different stages of the Physical Education lesson, in keeping with the objective of the lesson and its parts.

Conclusions:

The traditional games used as part of the Physical Education lesson contributed to preserving the students' cultural identity and physical-cognitive development.

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