ASSURE Lesson Plan

Teacher’s Name: Beverly Wabol

Grade: 4^th

Content Area: Health and Wellness

Lesson Title: Counting the heartbeats per minute; Students will learn what their normal pulse rate is.

Lesson Length: 55 minutes

Analyze Learners:

General Characteristics: This class is 4^th grade, ages 9-10, 24 students (15 boys and 9 girls, all Kosraeans, no visible physical disabilities.

Entry Competencies: The students should already know how to use a stopwatch, operate a computer with MS Excel and Accessories, and basic keyboarding skills. Prior to this lesson, students already know that the ‘heart” is part of the Circulatory System and its function is to bump blood to the body through the arteries.

Learning Styles: The learning styles for the student will be visual, group work, individual work, tactile/kinesthetic. The students in this class enjoy very much and find it easier when they have hands-on, demonstration, and indoor or outdoor activities incorporated with the lesson, and then save their work on the computer.

State Objectives:

At the end of this lesson, each and every student will be able to:

1. locate the parts on our body, or blood vessels close to the skin surface where he/she can feel and count his/her heartbeat.
2. using a stopwatch or wrist watch, count the number of times his/her heart beats per minute.
3. explain the cause of the differences in pulse rate when a person is relaxing, when walking at a faster pace, and when running.
4. input data into MS Excel
5. save his/her work on the computer

Select Methods, Media, and Materials:

Method: The method of teaching this lesson will be lecture, demonstration, and powerpoint presentation.

Media and Materials: The teacher will make available 24 stopwatches and 24 computers for each and every student, and a projector for presentation/lecture.

Utilize Materials and Media:

1. Prior to class time, the teacher will make sure all the 24 stopwatches, and computers are working perfectly and with MS Excel and Accessories. Any calculation that will be made in this lesson will be made using the calculator on Accessories.
2. Using the projector, the teacher will lecture with powerpoint to show what is being discussed or talked about.
3. At the beginning of class, the teacher will review previous knowledge, and then state the topic/lesson and objectives for today, and inform them to take notes of her/his lecture/presentation. (5 minutes)
4. While the teacher is doing lecture/presentation, all student must watch the slides and take notes onto their notebooks. (15 minutes)

Content of the lecture/presentation:

The heart bumps blood by contracting and releasing, producing the heartbeats. Your heartbeat is usually called the pulse, which is the number of times your heart beats in one minute. The normal pulse rate vary in ages and sexes. The normal pulse rate for ages 9-10 is 100-120 beats per minute (bpm). The pulse may change from minute to minute. When you are relaxing, your pulse is slow because the heart is not busy contracting. It relaxes as you relax. When you are walking, you heart beat faster than relaxing. When you are running, climbing, jumping, or doing any strenuous activity, your heart beats even faster than when you’re walking. The reason for this is, the beating of the heart is depending on the body’s need for oxygen rich blood. When you move around too much, your body will need more oxygen. The more you move or do energy-taking activities, the more your heart will want oxygen. So when you relax, your heart doesn’t beat fast because it doesn’t need more oxygen to function. And as you do more strenuous activities, your heart will beat faster in need of oxygen. If a person is relaxing, yet finding that his/her heart beats less or more than the normal rate, than he/she has a problem; either the person is stressed, depressed, or the heart is malfunctioned.

You don’t need to go to the hospital to check your pulse. Counting the pulse is simple. You can feel the heartbeats in some of the blood vessels close to the skin’s surface such as your wrist, side of the neck below the jaws, or upper arm angle.”

5. The teacher will demonstrate how to check pulse on the skin’s surfaces mentioned. (1 minute)
6. The teacher will allow the students to check their own pulse to see if they have normal pulse rate or not. (1 minute1 9
7. The teacher will group the students into 3 groups (8 student in a group); the three groups will take turn to try taking their pulse when relaxing, walking 50 meters, and running 50 meters. The two groups that are walking and running have to give themselves time to get back to their normal pulse before they do the next activity. Each student has to record his/her own pulse in all the three activities. (20 minutes)
8. The teacher will then require the students to record their data into MS Excel and save their work into the desktop.
9. The teacher will require the students to use the calculator in the Accessories to calculate the number of pulse increases from relaxing to walking, and walking to running.

Require Learner Participation

The teacher will allow students to help each other on recording the data into MS Excel and save. Before inputting the data, each group will compare their data in all the three activities. Each group should have 8 different results for each three different activities, so they must discuss amongst themselves about the differences. (5 minutes)

Evaluate and Revise

The teacher will walk around to see if every student is doing right. From the data recorded, the teacher could know whether the student understand the lesson taught or not. And the teacher must also check to see if all students are recording correct data on correct activity. The teacher will do question and answer review of the lesson. He/she must allow chance for each and every student to answer at least one question and ask any question they might have. He/she will ask the students how they feel about the activities and using the computer and stopwatch, and also find out whether the students prefer having hand-outs or just watching powerpoint slides. (8 minutes)

Resources:

http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/01/find-your-target-heart-rate/