Abstract:
The general objective of this study is to investigate the influence of recreational activities in enhancing physical education practical class in west Arsi to achieve this objective; the study used simple random sampling lottery method to select students of west Arsi zone selcted secondery schools’ students. The design of this study was of descriptive survey in nature. The major findings of this study are; there is deference between students on female and male students to participate in Volleyball, Basketball and Table tennis and also types of participation through active and passive recreation. again there is students that do not participate in recreational activities because of lack of sport material, facility, and equipment, the students have exposure about recreational activities, but they didn’t participate because of lack of ability, lack of awareness, lack of material ,equipment, lack of family economic support, lack of school sport clubs, participating in recreational activities have positive effect in enhancing physical education practical class through avoiding those obstacles. Based on the findings the following recommendations wear suggested; The students they have to participate in recreational activities without any differences, with the intention of create awareness in the secondery schools, physical education teachers should be encouraging the students to participate in recreational activities more than the previous one, school administrators should give an attention for recreational activities, the government also done with schools and medias to create an awareness more than the previous. To enhance physical education practical class, the students have to give an attention and participate in recreational activities better than earlier trough modifying the sport materials, equipment, and facilities and all students should be participant. In order to solve the factors that affect students’ participation in recreational activities, the schools have to provide the sport materials, equipment, and facilities, the physical education teachers have to create an awareness for their students additional to the formal physical education class, the government should give an attention for recreational activities, the school administrator also supervise the condition how to participate in recreational activities. Finally, the families also support the students through providing sport wears to increase
