Pacing & Cardiorespiratory Activity

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...

Measure health as a triangle, with each side representing different aspects of health: physical, emotional/mental, and social. High schoolers complete a self-assessment of their health in all three areas before scoring their progress and...

This accompanies a lesson on how various activities affect heart rate. Young learners identify resting heart rate and target heart rate. They do some physical activities to measure their heart rates for each of those activities. They...

After exercise, your heart rate increases, this is normal for everyone. However this experiment asks whether the recovery time for a heart's beating rate is faster for people who get regular exercise versus those that do not.

Check your target heart rate for safe and effective exercise according to your age and health status in this interactive heart rate calculator

Students improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.

Math and medicine go hand-in-hand. After viewing several infographics on historical adult obesity rates, pupils consider how they have changed over time. They then use percentages to create a new graph and write a list of questions the...

Students 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 levels.

Med Help is designed to help "patients find the highest quality medical information in the world today." It includes an eNewsletter, news from The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center and ABC TV, and a list of articles which can be searched by...

In this heart rate record work sheet, students record their pulse rate after completing different levels of exercise. Students record their hear rate after walking, doing jumping jacks and running at one minute intervals.