Year 6 Science Animals, including humans - Heartrate Investigation

Year 6 Science

Animals, including humans - Heartrate Investigation

Several worksheets to be used around a heartrate investigation.

Includes:

• a research task investigating the different exercises which are appropriate at different ages

• a template to plan an independent heartrate investigation using the scientific method

• an example of a possible investigation which could be used

• a prompt sheet for children’s books explaining the investigation

• a success criteria for drawing a bar graph from the investigation results

• the investigation could be carried out a number of ways (e.g. jumping, lunges and running as the IV and DV as the heartrate. This can be repeated for reliability with different participants.)

  NB: Squared paper is needed for the bar graph.