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What's Up, Doc?
Students explore cardiovascular fitness and create and follow a fitness program. They document the benefits of participating in a fitness program.
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Migrating Math
Students practice estimating distance traveled while walking. Also can be used to introduce backpacking/hiking or as a daily warm-up. Measure the blacktop/cafeteria/playground, then determine how many times around make a mile.
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Triangles & Congruence, Proportions & Similarity, Right Triangle & Trigonometry
High schoolers are introduced to the topic of congruence and proportions in Geometry. Using technology, they construct and validate the properties of various geometric figures and identify whether it is congruent or proportion to the...
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Pirates of the Carribean
Students (pirates) sit on a scooter (pirate ship). Two students are called 'Crackens' sit on their own ships. Crackens use a swim noodle (tentacle) to gently tag the pirates. Students began the game with the ROAR of the Cracken and they...
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Health: The Skeleton with a Message
Pupils identify human muscles and bones from a cardboard skeleton, named "Mr. Skelly." Using dialog balloons as props, the teacher holds up advice from Mr. Skelly, such as noting he drinks milk to keep his bones strong. The lesson also...
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Students participate in a "Pirates of the Caribbean" tag game to demonstrate scooter skills and safety techniques. Students identify and discuss scooter safety rules, then play a tag game with each student (pirate) on a scooter, with...
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Bean Bag Clean-up
Students view signs posted in corners of the gym. Each sign indicates a color and a locomotor skill. When they hear music, students pick up a bean bag, take it to its corresponding color while performing the specified locomotor skill....
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Musical Art
Learners create pieces of Abstract art by listening to various genres of music and reacting to the music with a pencil on a piece of paper and their eyes closed. This activity is intended for a middle-level Art class and can be used as...
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Bean Bag Clean-up
Students perform activities to practice locomotor skills. When music begins, students pick up a bean bag and bring it to the corner corresponding to the color of the bean bag. They perform a specified locomotor skill.
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Fire and Ice
Students play a game of tag using soft balls to tag each other with. Music is incorporated in this lesson, which is designed to engage students in vigorous physical activity.
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Application
Pupils apply and generalize data, and prepare and present an oral presentation with a visual aid.
Rice University
Rice University: Intro. To Heart Rate Monitors
This article, entitled "Intro. to Heart Rate Monitors," discusses how your heart rate is maintained by your body, and how heart rate monitors work.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Heart Rate and Body Position
In this activity, students can use a Heart Rate Monitor to measure their heart rate while sitting, lying down, and standing. They will analyze the data collected to determine the effect of body position on heart rate.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Heart Rate Monitoring
In this task, 8th graders are asked to draw a graph that represents heart rate as a function of time from a verbal description of that function. Then they use the graph to draw conclusions about the context. Aligns with 8.F.B.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Beating Hearts
In this activity, students' will use a heart rate monitor to measure their heart rate in beats per minute (BPM) while they exercise. They will understand the effect of exercise on heart rate and learn how to measure differences in heart...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Physiology Monitoring and Cycles Lab With Report
Using physiology monitoring, students will understand how to collect data using scientific methods in this activity. Students will also learn how to communicate the finding in a lab report. Physiology monitoring will include measuring...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Body Control Center
Throughout the day, your nervous system monitors and makes endless adjustments to your body's basic systems--all to keep you alive. This interactive feature illustrates the complexity of such a task.
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Kids Health: Arrhythmias
A wealth of information on arrhythmias. Find out about the kinds of arrhythmias, causes, and treatments.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Langer: Mplantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
Read about Alois A. Langer, a member of "the medical team that invented the first automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator." Also, learn how this invention impacts the medical world.