Today we were back to school. We had a good day and pretty much hit the ground running.
I decided that during our revision of the human body, and specifically whilst we were looking at pulse rate we would use our Science Online spreadsheet resource to share results between the 2 Year 6 classes.
Although over the last few months we have had nearly 300 individual views and some positive comments on the resource, nobody has yet been in a position to contribute. So I thought I would look closer to home and share pulse rate data between the classes.
The important principle still remains underpinning why I want this web2.0 tool to work; that more results means more reliability. These tools have to make a difference after all.
So the children recorded the pulse rate (counted for 30 seconds and doubled) when:
- Resting
- After 30 arm circles
- After 30 star jumps
- After 30 side to side jumps
Editgrid has a real time update feature but unfortunately we had a bunch of trouble and the spreadsheet just sort of stopped updating. I decided to save our results in Excel and then import them later – you can still see our “Exercise” sheet and everything ready to go.
You are welcome to have a go and add some data – it took us less than 30 mins to gather the info and add all 30 odd sets of entries to Excel.
Let me know of any other simple experiments or investigations you and your class are doing this term that we could pool the results for.
Image Citation:
Imperial Doughnut, “Pulse” Imperial Doughnut’s Photostream. April 25 2006 <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/134998486_c7519227be.jpg>.