Students perform various cardiovascular activities, then complete a worksheet that records their target heart rate.

Middle schoolers feel their pulse and describe it. They predict whether certain activities will increase or decrease their heart rates. Students use a heart rate sensor to determine resting heart rates and those after activity. In...

Students examine the functions of the heart and ways to maintain a healthy heart.  For this human body science lesson, students listen to Magic School Bus Inside the Human Heart, and diagram the human heart and blood flow. ...

Fourth graders experiment to find the effects of exercise on the heart rate.  In this exercise and heart rate instructional activity, 4th graders create questions about exercise and heart rate. Students use the scientific method to...

Students predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.

Students collect, graph and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students measure the heart beat of a person as they listen to music. They use the CBL and TI to create a graph, analyzing the outcome.

Learners collect and analyze data using  percent difference. In this algebra lesson, students relate the concepts of algebra to cardiac physiology.