Cardiovascular System ~ The Effects of Exercise Lab Activity
Heart rate lab in which pairs of students take pulse readings at rest, during exercise and during recovery, graph the results and explain how the cardiovascular system maintains homeostasis.
- Grades
- Grades 9–12, High School
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Subject
- Science, Life Sciences, Human Body
- Topic
- cardiovascular system, anatomy
- Resource types
- Labs, Experiments, Activities
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Need to get your students up and moving? Maybe even take them outside when the weather is good? This lab can be used during any unit on the heart or Cardiovascular System. This lab is very flexible as it will work for any level student from English Learner - EL - to more advanced students.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Measure and record heart rate before, during and after exercise
- Graph heart rate over time
- Explain the heart's response to exercise in terms of homeostasis
Teaching tips
- Each pair needs a stopwatch, clock or phone timer for pulse counts, and students need graph paper for the heart rate graph
Skills covered
- Data collection — partners time and record pulse counts in the data tables
- Data analysis — students describe how heart rate rises and recovers from their own graphs
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Core concepts
Core concepts
- Cardiovascular system
- Heart rate
- Homeostasis
- Exercise physiology
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