Heart Rate Investigation

To end the Science topic ‘Moving and Growing’, on Tuesday 4T planned, carried out and evaluated an investigation on what happens to our heart rate as we exercise. The children worked in pairs to investigate, with the roles of ‘skipper’ and ‘timer’. The skipper had to skip for 5 minutes and take their pulse for 15 seconds after every one minute of skipping. In this practical activity the children explored how their bodies work and concluded that as you exercise your heart beats faster to carry oxygen to your muscles.