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Circulation and Respiration: Vital Signs
What do your vital signs tell your doctor? An engaging hands-on lesson has your learners monitor their own lung capacity, blood pressure, and heart rate. They then connect the vital measures to the workings of the circulatory and...
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Local Heart Rates
Students determine the type of data needed to test their inferences. As homework, they check and record heart rates of fellow students, teachers and family members. During their next class period, students enter all data into the database.
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Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science lesson, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in up to 6...
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Formative Assessment #2: Circulatory System Performance Assessment
Watch as your pupils' hearts get pumping! An interactive activity has individuals record their heart rates after completing different activities. Each task has a different degree of physical activity. They then graph their results and...
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Intermediate PE Activity-Walk Across the USA
Learners, in teams, in physical education classes, attempt to collectively "walk across America." They measure a mile of walking distance at their school and then track how many they walk. They trace the miles on an actual map,...
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5,6,7,8 Line Dance
5,6,7,8 Line Dance is a very simple, but very fast-paced line dance. It is comprised of the grapvine steps, moving forward and backwards, moving diagonally, jumping, and clapping. There is a repeating section of the dance which calls for...
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Change the Beat
Brainstorm the reasons why a healthy heart is important. Using a diagram, label and locate the heart and discuss its function. Practice finding your heartbeat and describe the effects of physical activity on the heart. Also perform an...
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The Science of Respiration and Blood Circulation
Fifth graders study how respiration and circulation are connected. In this respiratory instructional activity students complete several activities to better understand heart rate and carbon dioxide in the body.
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HEART THROBS
Middle schoolers predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.
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My Response to Stress
High schoolers search for ways to prevent stress. They conduct self-assessments, plan a stress clinic, research community resources, and write a reflective essay. Students may wear electronic heart rate monitors to demonstrate stress...
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Locating and Counting Pulses
Students participate in a combination of lecture and physical exercise in order to find their pulse (both resting and after activity) and record how their heart rate changes as their activity level changes.
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Hearts in Motion
Young scholars participate in cardiovascular activities. In this physical education lesson plan, students are divided into groups and brainstorm activities to get their heart rate up. Young scholars demonstrate the activity for classmates.
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Fitness Lab
Students complete several physical fitness stations. Students identify which activities increased their heart rates from a resting level. Stations include jumping jacks, sit-ups, running in place, stretching, and body fat measurements.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Dancercise
Students participate in a dance routine set to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. They monitor their heart rate and learn a new song.
Leadership Challenge
Paper Airplanes
The first activity in this leadership forum asks pairs of participants to design and build a paper airplane and then fly this plane from one partner to the other. The debrief of the activity asks these future leaders to consider how they...
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Jump Band Hokey Pokey
Add a new dimension to doing the Hokey Pokey by giving each group of four dancers a set of jump bands. There are dance moves for the two dancers holding the jump bands as well as for the dancers doing the Hokey Pokey. The goal is to...
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Rainy Day Blues Turned into Rainbow Smiles
A series of physical fitness games, activities, and teamwork challenges prompt youngsters to get moving! Using Hula Hoops, bean bags, pool noodles, and other materials, elementary and middle schoolers work together and get some exercise...
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Cardiac Output, Rates of Change, and Accumulation
Students explore rates of change. In this cardiac output lesson, students measure the amount of blood being pumped by a heart. They explore the flow rate and complete an accumulation and concentration problem. They analyze data, flow...
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Jump Rope Around the World (Target Heart Rate)
Students participate in a game where they get 5 "lives." When they miss with the rope the fifth time, they go to another area in the gym. They continue jumping to keep their heart rates elevated.
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Exercise for the Heart
Third graders identify the relationship between physical activity and a healthy heart. Then they describe the long-term effects of daily physical activity on the heart. Students also distinguish aerobic from anaerobic exercises and ...
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Pacing & Cardiorespiratory Activity
Students explain how to pace themselves when running and to examine how heart rate relates to that.
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Formula for Fitness
Many youngsters don't understand that fitness is a life-long endeavor, and that it really pays off to be healthy. Use a spreadsheet to document progress in a fitness plan to see if there really in a benefit to running and exercise. Adapt...
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Graphing Heart Rates
Students explore heart rates. They record pulse rates, predict which exercises cause a faster heart rate, make a chart, and graph the results. Students write an essay using the data to support their predictions. They write a hypothesis...
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The Circulatory System - Part IV
First graders explore the heart muscle. They discover that the heart beats faster during exercise. Students locate their heart with a stethoscope and imitate the sound their heart makes. Students locate their carotid pulse before and...