Heart Rate
In the days after Science Week, we were keen to continue investigating the world around us. First of all, we meditated so that
we felt completely relaxed. Children found their pulse and counted how many
times their heart beat in one minute. We recorded this. We added up the
amounts for all of the children and divided our answer by the number of
children in the class. This gave us the “average resting heart rate” for our
class. We then sprinted and jumped on the spot for one minute. Immediately
after this activity we found the average class heart rate using the same
methods. Every student’s heart rate had risen and the class average was also
higher. Check out our method and results in the sheets below.
Meditation was used to lower heart rate.
Exercise lead to an increase in average heart rate.