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Research Objective. To develop and experimentally substantiate a set of sports tourism classes implemented at a training ground in a natural environment.
Methods and Organization of the Study. The pedagogical experiment involved 24 secondary school students, divided into experimental and control groups. The study employed theoretical analysis and synthesis of scientific and methodological literature, design and planning, a pedagogical experiment, comparative analysis, and methods of mathematical statistics.
Results and Discussion. A tourist training ground with an area of approximately one hectare was set up for the classes; it included seven local obstacles of varying difficulty. The developed programme was designed for 56 hours and implemented over seven months – from October to April. The effectiveness of the programme was assessed by the time taken to complete a second‑class difficulty route and individual technical stages. After the experiment, the total time to complete the route decreased in the experimental group: by 53.2 seconds for boys and by 20.0 seconds for girls.
Conclusion. Positive dynamics were observed at all the technical stages under study. The obtained results confirm the feasibility of using a tourist training ground in natural conditions for the initial tourist training of schoolchildren.
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