UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS

Tuguegarao City

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, CRIMINOLOGY, ARTS and PSYCHOLOGY

Second Semester
A.Y. 2024-2025

ONLINE LEARNING MODULE

PHED 1042 – Physical Activity Towards Health and Fitness (Outdoor and Adventure Activity)

Prepared by:

DOMINIC ANGELO P. CAMBRI

WILSON P. LANGCAY JR.
RON MATTHEW RAMOS
EFREN SADDUL
JAYVIN M. TAGUBA
Course Instructors

Reviewed by:

MIRELLE JEAN A. CARONAN, MST

Teacher Education Program Chair

Recommended by:

HERBERT S. CORPUZ, ED.D

Academic Dean

Approved by:

LUISA B. AQUINO, ED.D

Vice President for Academics

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 ONLINE LEARNING MODULE
PHED 1042 - Physical Activities Towards Health and Fitness (Outdoor and Adventure Activity)
AY 2024-2025

Lesson 1: Outdoor and Adventurous Activity: Introduction

Topic: A. Outdoor Activity

B. Adventure Activity
C. Purpose and Benefits of Outdoor and Adventure Activity

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. Enumerate the different types of outdoor and Adventure Activity

2. Discuss the types of Outdoor and Adventurous Activity
3. Explain the health and fitness benefit that the family can derive from involving outdoor ad
adventurous activity.

LEARNING CONTENT

Introduction:

Outdoor activity is the most common and usual way of having a rest or having vacation for many people.
While some of us prefer staying indoors with a book or movies, others cannot keep their energy inside and thus
try various outdoor activities. Along with it, a large number of people have outdoor hobbies like horse riding,
surfing, camping ant etc. With time, they develop their skills which gives even more pleasure and confidence.
But today, with the COVID 19 pandemic, we are experiencing a significant problem where all the things that we
do is under limitations.

Lesson Proper:

Outdoor recreation or outdoor activity refers to recreation

engaged in out of doors, most commonly in natural settings. The
activities themselves — such as fishing, hunting, backpacking,
and horseback riding — characteristically determine where they
are practiced.

This kind of activity is commonly used for enjoyment, exercise,

challenge, camaraderie, spiritual renewal, and an opportunity to
partake in nature. Though the activities are inherently lean to
sports they nonetheless do not all demand that a participant be an athlete, and competition generally is less
stressed than in individual or team sports organized into opposing squads in pursuit of a trophy or championship.
When the activity involves exceptional excitement, physical challenge, or risk, it is sometimes referred to as
"adventure recreation" or "adventure training", rather than an extreme sport.

Examples of Outdoor Activities

Beach and Cultural and

Mountain Forest Freshwater Air Desert Family Exercise
sea historical

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 Wildlife Angling/fly Amusement Indigenous Outdoor
Trekking Snorkeling Gliding Safari
safari fishing park culture fitness

Scuba Outdoor
Rock climbing Camping Canyoning Ballooning Safari park
diving gym

Mountain Whitewater Sand Off-leash Metal

Birdwatching Parasailing Flying Fitness trail
biking rafting boarding dog park detecting

Motorbike Elephant Sport Bungee Benchmarking

Water sports Paramotoring Plogging
expedition safari fishing jumping (geolocating)

Tree
Skiing Windsurfing Kayaking Skydiving Picnicking Sightseeing
climbing

Adventure Water
Snowboarding Canoeing Paragliding Corn maze
park sports

Mushroom Clam Wingsuit

Snowshoeing Waterskiing Plogging
hunting digging flying

Ice climbing Orienteering Running Jetskiing Ziplining

Mountain Stand Up
ATV riding Swimming
climbing Paddleboarding

Canyoning Paintball Plogging Raft building

Skyrunning Hunting Coasteering

Horseback
Abseiling
riding

Backpacking Plogging

Caving
Plogging
(Potholing)

Mountaineering Airsoft

Caving
(Potholing)

ADVENTUROUS ACTIVITY

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 Adventure activity is an activity that
involves greater than normal risk which may
include: travel into a relatively undeveloped area
of the country in which vehicle contact is difficult
and/or uncertain. Is an unusual, exciting, and
possibly dangerous activity, trip, or experience,
or the excitement produced by such activities

Our country Philippines is commonly known for having a beautiful Archipelago in which it offers countless
of destinations to see, adventures to experience and activities to do like such as the very famous Sky Diving in
Tanauan Batangas, Mountain Bikiing in San Mateo, Rizal, Surfing in La Union and etc.

According to Department of Tourism that “Philippines is known as a beach haven for

celebrities and travel enthusiasts, the country's unique 7,107-island geography makes the
destination just as perfect for travelers looking for adventure, nature, and culture. The Philippines'
diverse natural wonders make us a sought-after destination among the pack of adventurers; those
who choose to explore outdoor escapes.”

So with this it just recently been recognized as a global trend in other country wherein mostly people who
visit our country are from the other country. Our country has been catering to this demand as a way of life –
being blessed with mountains, caves, white waters ,and etc..

We are very thankful because we are living in a country which is blessed with a rich environment— we
have lush forests, tropical islands, white sand beaches, lakes, rivers, mountains— and friendly, artistic and most
specially the value of being a Filipino who are always happy and hardworking to welcome the visitors and friends.

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures
may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain
climbing, scuba diving, river raftingor participating in extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create
psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be
obtained in a risky manner.

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Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear) or
positive (e.g.flow). For some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer
André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine (1933), "If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?".
Similarly, Helen Kellerstated that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

Outdoor adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement: examples
are adventure racing and adventure tourism. Adventurous activities can also lead to gains in knowledge, such
as those undertaken by explorers and pioneers – the British adventurer Jason Lewis, for example, uses
adventures to draw global sustainability lessons from living within finite environmental constraints on expeditions
to share with school children. Adventure education intentionally uses challenging experiences for learning.

Author Jon Levy suggests that an experience should meet several criteria to be considered an adventure:

EXAMPLES

o Exploration
o Tourism
o Travel
o Sports
o Adventure travel

Exploration

Is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of

information or resources. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile
animal species, including humans. In human history, its most
dramatic rise was during the Age of Discovery when European
explorers sailed and charted much of the rest of the world for
a variety of reasons. Since then, major explorations after the
Age of Discovery have occurred for reasons mostly aimed at
information discovery.

In the Philippines, you can also experience this type of adventure. Our country is a haven for cave
exploration enthusiasts.

The caves in Sagada feature spectacular lime formations.

These caves are also ancestral burial sites
for the local indigenous people.

The famous Callao cave located in Pena Blanca Cagayan, has a

“chapel” made of gothic-like arches formed by stalagmites and stalactites. And
at dusk, visitors are treated to the sights of thousands of bats streaming out of
the mouth of the cave.

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 Meanwhile in Palawan, you can explore the St. Paul
Subterranean River, the world’s longest underground waterway. No
doubt there are still hundreds of fascinating caves in the Philippines
that are still waiting to be discovered.

Tourism

Is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and

practice of touring, the business of attracting,
accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the
business of operating tours. The World Tourism
Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms
which go "beyond the common perception of tourism
as being limited to holiday activity only", as people
"traveling to and staying in places outside their usual
environment for not more than one consecutive year
for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and
other purposes".

Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both
incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments.

Travel

Is the movement of people between distant

geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle,
automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means,
with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.
Travel can also include relatively short stays between
successive movements, as in the case of tourism.

Reasons for traveling include recreation, tourism or

vacationing, research travel, the gathering of information,
visiting people, volunteer travel for charity, migration to begin
life somewhere else, religious pilgrimages and mission trips,
business travel, trade, commuting, and other reasons, such
as to obtain health care[or waging or fleeing war or for the enjoyment of traveling. Travellers may use human-

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powered transport such as walking or bicycling; or vehicles, such as public transport, automobiles, trains and
airplanes.

Motives for travel include:

• Pleasure
• Relaxation
• Discovery and exploration
• Intercultural communications
• Taking personal time for building interpersonal relationships.

Travel safety

Authorities emphasize the importance of taking precautions to ensure travel safety. When traveling
abroad, the odds favor a safe and incident-free trip, however, travelers can be subject to difficulties, crime and
violence. Some safety considerations include being aware of one's surroundings, avoiding being the target of a
crime, leaving copies of one's passport and itinerary information with trusted people, obtaining medical insurance
valid in the country being visited and registering with one's national embassy when arriving in a foreign country.
Many countries do not recognize drivers' licenses from other countries; however most countries accept
international driving permits. Automobile insurance policies issued in one's own country are often invalid in
foreign countries, and it is often a requirement to obtain temporary auto insurance valid in the country being
visited. It is also advisable to become oriented with the driving-rules and -regulations of destination countries.
Wearing a seat belt is highly advisable for safety reasons; many countries have penalties for violating seatbelt
laws.

Sport

Includes all forms of competitive physical activity

or games which, through casual or organised
participation, at least in part aim to use, maintain or
improve physical ability and skills while providing
enjoyment to participants, and in some cases,
entertainment for spectators.

There are hundreds of sports exist not only for

competitive activity like boxing, but we have also the so
called Sport Adventure wherein people involve here will
experience high excitement and thrill.

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 In the Philippines we have this kind of sport adventure
which is the Whitewater Rafting. A Philippine whitewater rafting
experience is exciting, relaxing, and thrilling at the same time.
This sport is relatively new for the local people, as it became
popular only several decades ago. Still, the rivers of the
Philippines are perfectly suited for such an activity.

The Philippines number several whitewater rivers that

have a year-round rafting season. However, each one has a bit
different high season. Cagayan de Oro, for example, is the best
during wet months between June and December. On Chico
River, the best time runs from June to early January.

The most thrilling experience on Kabula river is possible from May to December, whereas the Davao
River is equally good year-round. Other popular locations to practice this exciting water sport include Balanac
River in Magdalena, where you can enjoy sliding down the slope of Balanac Dam, and Calbiga River in Samar
famous for its impressive caves.

Adventure travel

Is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel

with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may
require special skills and physical exertion. In the United States,
adventure tourism has grown in recent decades as tourists seek
out-of-the-ordinary or "roads less traveled" vacations, but lack
of a clear operational definition has hampered measurement of
market size and growth. According to the U.S.-based Adventure
Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist
activity that includes physical activity, a cultural exchange, and
connection with nature.

Adventure tourists may have the motivation to achieve mental

states characterized as rush or flow, resulting from stepping
outside their comfort zone. This may be from experiencing culture shock or by performing acts requiring
significant effort and involve some degree of risk, real or perceived, or physical danger. This may include
activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, mountain biking, cycling, canoeing, scuba diving
,rafting, kayaking, zip-lining, paragliding, hiking, exploring, canyoneering, sand boarding, caving and rock
climbing. Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism. Other rising forms of
adventure travel include social and jungle tourism.

As a closely related subspecies of adventure travels, event trips involve various kinds of touristic travels that aim
at particular activities as an important part of the travel, which don't necessary fulfil the criteria of being proper

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adventures. Activities comprised under the term "event trips" range from international sports events (i.e. FIFA
World Cup, Super Bowl) to renowned cultural events (i.e. Bayreuth Festival, Venice Film Festival).

Access to inexpensive consumer technology, with respect to Global Positioning Systems, flash-packing, social
networking and photography, have increased the worldwide interest in adventure travel. The interest in
independent adventure travel has also increased as more specialist travel websites emerge offering previously
niche locations and sports.

Types of Travel

Extreme tourism

Extreme tourism involves travel to dangerous (extreme) locations or

participation in dangerous events or activities. This form of tourism can
overlap with extreme sport.

Extreme tourism may involve the following:

• Cave Diving
• Paragliding.
• Trekking

Jungle tourism

Jungle tourism is a subcategory of adventure travel defined by

active multifaceted physical means of travel in the jungle regions of
the earth.

According to the Glossary of Tourism Terms, jungle tours have

become a major component of green tourism in tropical
destinations and are a relatively recent phenomenon of Western
international tourism.

Overland travel

Overland travel or over-landing refers to an "overland journey"

– perhaps originating with Marco Polo's first overland
expedition in the 13th century from Venice to the Mongolian
court of Kublai Khan. Today overlanding is a form of extended
adventure holiday, embarking on a long journey, often in a
group. Overland companies provide a converted truck or a bus
plus a tour leader, and the group travels together overland for
a period of weeks or months.

Since the 1960s over-landing has been a popular means of

travel between destinations across Africa, Europe, Asia(particularly India), the Americas and Australia. The
"Hippie trail" of the 60s and 70s saw thousands of young westerners travelling through the Middle East to India
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and Nepal. Many of the older traditional routes are still active, along with newer routes like Iceland to South
Africa overland and Central Asian post soviet states.

PURPOSE AND BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR GAMES

Outdoor recreation consists of a range of various

outdoor activities. Although many are considered sports,
participants need not associate with teams, competitions or
clubs. Activities include backpacking, canoeing, canyoning,
caving, climbing, hiking, hill walking, hunting, kayaking, and
rafting. Arguably, broader groupings include water sports,
snow sports, and horseback riding.

The outdoors as a physical or social setting may meet

the needs of physical health, self-sufficiency, risk-taking,
the building of social ties, and the needs of achievement
(such as practicing, enhancing and challenging skills, testing stamina and endurance, and seeking
adventure or excitement). The outdoors can be an environment in which people "show what they can do".

Pleasurable appreciation encourages experiences of being "let in on nature's show". Enhancement of

inner perceptual and/or spiritual life may be experienced through outdoor act, painting, photography,
archeological or historical research, and indigenous culture among others. These activities may also be
physically rewarding.

Outdoor activities may also be pursued for the purposes of finding peace in nature, enjoying life, and
relaxing. They are alternatives to expensive forms of tourism. Outdoor activities are also frequently used as a
medium in education and team building.

*** END of LESSON 1-2***

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Learning Materials

1. Worksheets (teacher-made)
2. Powerpoint (teacher-made)

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