Benefits of Recreation

Personal
• contributes to a full and meaningful life
• Helps promote physical fitness
• Aids in stress management
• Serves as an essential source of positive self-image
• Provides people with the opportunity to lead balanced lives, achieve
their full potential. And gain life satisfaction
• Plays an important role in the human development process, especially
in children
• Provides positive lifestyle choices and alternatives to self-destructive
behavior for teenagers
Personal
• Helps give people satisfaction and improve their quality of life

Social
• Provides leadership opportunities that build strong communities.
• Reduces alienation, loneliness, and antisocial behaviors
• Promotes ethnic and cultural harmony
• Build strong families, the foundation of a stronger society
• Provides opportunities for community involvement and shared management and ownership of
resources
• Provides integrated and accessible leisure services for people with disabilities
• Serves as a foundation of community pride
• Enriches and compliments protective services for latchkey children through-after schooland other
recreational services
Economic
• Serves as a preventive health service
• Results in a fit and, ultimately, productive workforce
• Motivates business relation in the community
• Serves as a catalysts for tourism, a growing sector of the economy

Environment
• Creates awareness of and interest in nature especially during trekking and hiking
activities
• Encourages involvement in the conservation of natural resources.
Board Games- games involve counters or pieces placed and moved, according to a
set of rules, on a pre-marked or surface or board. Examples of board games are
checkers or dama and game of the generals.

Two types of capturing and non-capturing moves.

1. Capturing moves occur when an opposing piece jumps.
2. Non-capturing move is simply a diagonal move to an adjacent square.