Heart recovery time after exercise
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can investigate the recovery time of my heart after exercise.
Key learning points
- Your pulse can be felt at the wrist and other places where an artery is close to the skin.
- A healthy resting heart rate for adults is between 50 and 90 beats per minute (bpm).
- Recovery time is the amount of time it takes your heart to return to its resting rate after being active.
- Regular exercise can improve recovery time and overall heart health.
Keywords
Exercise - Exercise means using a lot of effort to move our bodies so that they stay fit and healthy.
Heart rate - Heart rate is the number of times a heart beats each minute.
Pulse - Each time your heart beats it can be felt as a pulse in the arteries.
Arteries - Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
Recovery time - Recovery time is the amount of time it takes your heart to return to its resting rate after being active.
Common misconception
Pupils may have a very narrow definition of exercise, limiting it to activities such as running or weightlifting and not including more ‘fun’ types of exercise such as dancing or trampolining.
Explain that any physical activity where we intentionally use a lot of effort to move our bodies is exercise, backing this up with all the examples in the slide deck.
Teacher tip
This lesson provides an opportunity for pupils to practise their maths skills; the data gathered on individual heart rate and recovery times could be used to calculate averages and create a line graph for the whole class.
Equipment
Stopwatches, clipboards. Pulse oximeters could also be provided if available but are not required.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these statements about the heart is correct?
Q2.Arteries are blood vessels that …
Q3.The number of times your heart beats in a minute is called your heart .
Q4.When you are exercising, your heart rate …
Q5.Match the heart rate to the activity.
sitting at desk and writing
walking to school
playing football
Q6.What is carried to the muscles in our blood to help them keep working?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.How can we improve our heart recovery time?
Q2.Between 50 – 90 bpm is considered a healthy heart rate for an adult.
Q3.What is heart recovery time?
Q4.At places where an is close to the skin, we can use two fingers to feel our pulse and check our heart rate.
Q5.Aisha measured her heart rate, then did some exercise and measured her heart rate again at one-minute intervals.
Here are her results.
How long was Aisha’s recovery time?
Q6.Which type of diagram is best for recording changes to heart rate after exercise?
To help you plan your 6 science lesson on: Heart recovery time after exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 6 science lesson on: Heart recovery time after exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
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