Healthy Room 12

Heart Rates - Steps = Healthy Lifestyles 

Today we started our walk around the world. For the next 30 days, children will record their steps over a 24-hour period. We will record our steps at 9 am each day. Together we are challenging other children across New Zealand to walk. 

We came up with a question - Do we have more steps when we walk or run around the field? 

 All the kids came up with a hypothesis or I think statement and then recorded our steps walking and running. 

16 of the 27 students here today thought running would have more steps. 

The conclusion we came up with was that walking actually gave you more steps. But our heart rate increased when we ran. 

 Brae’s maths- 763 steps - 232 steps already on his monitor = 531 steps walking 987 running steps - 763 already on his monitor= 224 steps running. 

 We also looked at how to take our heart rate. We counted how many beats for 30s and then doubled it. Indie resting heart rate = 48 beats per minute (24 in 30s) After her run, she was 76 beats per minute.

 We then asked why our hearts had to beat faster when we ran? We found out that when we run our heart has to pump more blood that's full of oxygen quicker which increases the rate.