Chess and motor skills

Chess is a great educational resource because, as a center of interest, it facilitates the design of transversal activities, and, as a game, encourages the use of gamification in the classroom.

This book delves into the dynamic transversality based on body and kinesthetic intelligence, which was introduced in the first book of this collection.

The faculty will find a variety of games, exercises and activities related to chess to work the motor skills of the students in the compulsory educational stages (infant, primary and secondary).

With this approach it is also possible to learn the game of chess from the physical education subject in a dynamic, transversal and fun way.

The last part of the book reformulates the game of Xecball under two complementary approaches: educational and sports.

In the first one a series of motor didactic sessions to be worked from the subject of physical education are presented. In the second, the regulation of a new sport with a ball and based on the rules of chess is presented.