Your Target Heart Rate
We all know that exercise is healthy, but how much is too much? This answer depends greatly on your heart rate while you are exercising. Everyone has a maximum heart rate that you should never exceed and a range of heart rates that you should strive for while exercising. When your heart rate falls within the optimal range, you will burn more fat safely.
Go to the Exercise and Heart Rate site listed below and read the information on how to calculate your maximum heart rate and optimal range of heart rates. On a piece of paper, calculate these rates for yourself. Then, go to the Heart Rate Calculator on the second site and see how closely your numbers match theirs. Also read about how to take your own heart rate under the calculator.
Working with a partner, you will be jogging in place for three times and checking your heart rate. First, you will jog in place for 2 minutes, time each other and record your heart rate. Repeat this two times, jogging for 3 minutes and then 4 minutes. Again, record your heart rate each time.
When you have completed this, take all the information you have gathered and put it in a table using word processing or spreadsheet software. Compare your optimal heart rates to the ones you recorded after jogging each time. At the bottom of your table, write a short paragraph explaining this comparison. Did you reach your optimal heart rate?
| Lesson Name: Your Target Heart Rate | |
| Objective: Students will calculate their target heart rate and check their answer with the heart rate calculator. They will then jog in place for 2, 3 and 4 minute intervals and check their heart rate each time. This information will be put into a table and compared. This comparison will be summarized in a short paragraph. | |
| Grade: (3-5) | Lesson Login: target_rate |
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Additional disciplines: Computer Skills ELA Math Science |
Materials: Computer with Internet access Word processing or spreadsheet software Printer |
| Interactive Whiteboard Tip: Invite students to share their tables with the class on the interactive whiteboard. Have them display their table, explain their own comparisons and try to account for differences between their heart rate and their classmates' heart rates. | |
