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Baylor College

Heart Rate and Exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 10th Standards
What is the relationship among the heart, circulation, and exercise? Your class members will explore first-hand how different physical exercises affect an individual's heart rate. They will begin by learning how to measure their own...
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Baylor College

Heart and Lungs

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
With a partner, youngsters measure their pulse and breathing rates, both at rest and after running in place for a minute. While this activity is not novel, the lesson plan includes a large-scale classroom graphing activity and other...
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Baylor College

Heart Rate and Exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teach your exercise enthusiasts to read their pulse rate at the radial artery and multiply by four to calculate beats per minute. Learners perform a variety of activities, recording their heart rates after one minute of each. Though this...
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PLS 3rd Learning

Interpreting Heart Rates During Various Physical Activities

For Teachers 4th
Learners review terminology: pulse, heart rate, target heart rate zone. They work in three groups, and assigned to one of three activity stations. At 5-minute intervals, 4th graders check their pulse and record it on their group card....
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Partner Mile Run/Heart Rate Calculation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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University of Las Vegas

Heart Rate and Physical Activity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What is heart rate? What is pulse? How do you find a heart rate by taking a pulse? What determines a person's heart rate? Will heart rate increase by doing some activity? Does exercising regularly strengthen the heart muscle? Take a look...
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Locating and Counting Pulses

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Pulse Rates

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students answer the question, "How will the intensity of exercise effect your heart rate?", using physical workouts and AppleWorks, or similar spreadsheet program. This lesson can conclude with the creation of a graph of data collected.
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The Amazing Heart

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine human blood flow by comparing the pulse of athletes.  In this human body activity, students discover the equation for finding the cardiac output from a human heart.  Students identify heart rates of accomplished athletes...
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Why Be Active?

For Teachers K - 5th
What are some of the benefits of physical activity? Young learners take a look at not just the physical benefits, but also the emotional and social benefits of being physically active. There is a heart rate activity to count their...
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How Hard Is Your Heart Working?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe the differences in their pulse from when they are sitting to when they have been doing the "Hokey-Pokey."  In this heart health lesson, students take and record their pulse after they have been doing a quiet activity...
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The "Heart" of the Problem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore mathematical operations while studying nutrition. In this physical fitness lesson, students explore calories, pulse rate, and the circulatory system. Students use mathematical data to create a healthy physical fitness...
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Curated OER

Twelve Days of Christmas Dancercise

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Curated OER

Jump Rope Around the World (Target Heart Rate)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
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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Curated OER

THE GRINCH, SANTA, AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.
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Best Practices

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students are encouraged to do their best on the mile run portion of the fitness test. They also gain knowledge about fitness in other academic areas of the school too. In science, the class records resting pulse rates, in math, charts...
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Heart Rate Monitor 1K

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice moving at an appropriate pace to maintain a target heart rate.
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Partner Mile Run: Heart Rate Calculation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students improve fitness, calculate target heart rates and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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Dribbling Speedway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.
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Curated OER

Human Anatomy - How Do We Move?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover how blood moves around the body.  In this circulatory system lesson, 5th graders feel their pulse before and after exercise.  Students count their heart rate. Students use the scientific method to record their...
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How Can You Stay Fit?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Where Does the Blood Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate where the blood in our hearts travels by observing a diagram in class.  In this cardiovascular lesson, students examine their own heart by checking their pulse in class.  Students investigate a human body diagram and...
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Small/Large Sided Games Assessment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students play two versions of soccer--one with a full team and one with only two or three players. Then they assess they physical effects of both games--their heart rates, etc.
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Freeze and Thaw Continuous Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students dressed as "Snow Angels" run from "Jack Frosts" until a "Heat Meister" comes to unthaw them. They play this tag game in order to increase their heart rate and warm-up the large muscles (and to have fun.)

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