January 18th, 2022

Our projections for the week of January 17th

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exploring our ever changing heart rate

Today we reflected on our Winter Break Home Research experiences, during which we explored our heart rates in different scenarios and activities.
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What makes your heart beat faster?
Moving fast - Bea
Frog jumps - Daniel
Somersaults - Cape
It (moving your body) makes your heart stronger - Hugh


What slows down your heart rate?
Laying with my dog. On the list (his home research documentation) my sister was laying with my dog. - Hugh


When is our heart rate the lowest? That's called our resting heart rate.
Night time - Bea
When I'm laying with my dog sweetie - Cape
But that's normal (that the heart rate goes down) - Lily

During our Morning Meeting we reflected on our Winter Break Home Research experiences and results. Some children shared about their experiments and how and when their heart rate increased or decreased. They added their symbol to a heart rate chart on our documentation board to show which actions resulted in what heart rate. Saul, Finlay, Wilder and Bea also created drawings to represent certain actions and we would like to highlight a few examples here.

During Winter Break, Saul was wondering if his heart beat would be faster or slower after a cup of hot chocolate...
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His heart rate before: 84
and after: 100

Why did his heart rate go up?
Because it's having more sugar. - Lily
Makes it beat faster. - Bea
One time I eated a whole cupcake and my mom had to pick me up and put me to bed. - Frannie, remembering how tired she felt some time after she ate something very sugary.

​Saul drew "a ball of hot chocolate (swirl in the middle) and milk and a microwave to heat it up (circle around the cup)."

Cate assumed her heart rate will go up when she "runs super fast" or when she does "jumping jacks".  Together as a class we participated in this experiment. At first, we took Cate's heart rate while she was sitting during our morning meeting time. Here, her heart heart rate was 90. Then we all did 20 jumping jacks together. Afterwards her heart rate was 125.

It almost went over the charts. I was so surprised! - Finlay

It's a special jumping where you put your hands in the air and then you jump. - Finlay

Both Daniel and Cate's "resting heart heart" was 90 beats per minute. 

Bea suggested to draw a sleeping person to represent the resting heart rate.

That person's sleeping in the bed. It slows your heart down. When you're not doing moving really fast. - Bea

I did bunny hops, frog jumps and running. - Daniel

Wilder choose to draw a frog to represent frog jumps as a way of exercising your body.

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We are looking forward to further investigating our heart rates in the classroom! Thank you to everyone who shared their documentation from home with us, as they are a crucial part of our work progressing and evolving.