Heart Rate Monitors in PE

Heart Rate Monitor Lesson

Summary of lesson

• Elementary Class (roughly 15 students) participating in a cardiovascular Endurance activity
• Following the activity the students are prompted to check their heart rate using a heart rate monitor
• Teacher asks check for understanding questions regarding the students heart rates
• Teacher speaks about Healthy Fitness Zone and target heart rate

Learning Approach

• Teacher uses Inquiry-Based Learning
• Students are prompted to think of various ways to increase heart rate
• Students use invididual creativity to generate ways to increase their individual heart rate
• Chaloner (2011) states that "this learning approach emphasizes the abilities of the students creatively view, problem solve, question, and explore various perspectives and concepts"

Technology Infused

• The teacher in the video utilizes heart rate monitor watches and heart rate monitors

Infusing More Technology

• one way to infuse more technology to this lesson would be to utilize ipads and the app that coincides with the heart rate monitors.
• This would help students visualize their heart rate and help track/monitor their heart rate
• it also can help students understand how to achieve their target heart rate

Teaching Approach

• In the beginning of the lesson the teacher gives a brief overview of the heart rate monitors. Following this, the teacher starts class with a brief fitness session
• Following the fitness sessions, the students partake in a badminton lesson
• Students are asked to formulate various ways to increase heart rate

Teaching Strategies

• Peer Discussions
• Group Discussions
• guided learning Techniques

Modifications to lesson

• some modifications i would do to help bolster this lesson would be to incorporate ipads at the end of the lesson to help students understand how their heart rate works
• it would be beneficial if the students could view their heart rate and to be able to track their progress over a period of time

Modifications to lesson

• some modifications i would do to help bolster this lesson would be to incorporate ipads at the end of the lesson to help students understand how their heart rate works
• it would be beneficial if the students could view their heart rate and to be able to track their progress over a period of time

Lesson Effectiveness

• Overall the lesson seem to be effective as the students followed the teacher led directions and completed the many tasks throughout the lesson
• the students were able to demonstrate an understanding as they were able to decifer their heart rate and calculate which category they fell under

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