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This study aims at identifying the level of some coordination abilities among Jordanian children aged between 6-7 years, as well as differences in the level of these abilities between Jordanian and Germany children for this age group. To achieve this, the researchers use a descriptive approach on a sample consisting of (100) children from Jordan, (male: 51, female: 49). This number corresponds to the number of German children in a study (Zahara, 2011), which uses the results to compare in the coordination abilities. The same results and the same conditions and specifications used by the study are applied including the use of rail test, and boxes test to measure the ability of adapting in different situations. The use of ball and barrie testing is also applied to measure the effort ability. In addition the researchers uses T-test to compare these coordination abilities. The study results show that Jordanian children demonstrate statistically significant differences in the adaptation for different situations ability. They also show that German children demonstrate statistically significant differences in the effort ability. There are no statistically significant differences between Jordanian and German children in the balance ability. (Published abstract)