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Activity - 9.2 - Breathing On Heart Rate

The document outlines an activity to investigate the effect of exercise on heart rate, emphasizing skills in planning, observing, and interpreting data. It provides a step-by-step procedure for measuring pulse rates before and after exercise, along with safety precautions. Additionally, it encourages comparison of results among peers and designing an experiment to test the impact of training on recovery time of heart rate post-exercise.

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Activity - 9.2 - Breathing On Heart Rate

The document outlines an activity to investigate the effect of exercise on heart rate, emphasizing skills in planning, observing, and interpreting data. It provides a step-by-step procedure for measuring pulse rates before and after exercise, along with safety precautions. Additionally, it encourages comparison of results among peers and designing an experiment to test the impact of training on recovery time of heart rate post-exercise.

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Activity 9.

2
To find the effect of exercise on the rate of heart beat
Skills
AO3.2 Planning
AO3.3 Observing, measuring and recording
AO3.4 Interpreting and evaluating observations and data

Safety
Don’t do vigorous exercise if you know it could harm your health.
The best way to measure the rate of your heart beat is to take your pulse. Use the first two
fingers of your right hand and rest them on the inside of your left wrist. Feel for the tendon
near the outside of your wrist. If you rest your fingers lightly just over this tendon, you can
feel the artery in your wrist pulsing as your heart pumps blood through it.

1 Construct a results chart, ready to fill in your results. You need to read through the
whole set of instructions first, so that you can see exactly what you need to have in
your results chart.
2 Sit quietly for two minutes, to make sure you are completely relaxed.
3 Count the number of pulses in one minute. Record it in your table.
4 Wait one minute, then count your pulse again, and record.
5 Now do some vigorous exercise, such as stepping up and down onto a chair, for
exactly two minutes. At the end of this time, sit down. Immediately count your pulse
in the next minute, and record.
6 Continue to record your pulse rate every other minute, until it has returned to near
the level before you started to exercise.
7 Draw a graph of your results, putting time on the bottom axis (x-axis).
8 Compare your results with those of other people in your class. How much variation
is there in pulse rate when resting? How much variation is there in pulse rate after
exercise? How much variation is there in the time taken for pulse rate to return to
normal after exercise?
9 Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that training reduces the time taken for the
pulse rate to return to normal after exercise. Remember to think hard about controlling
variables. This will be very difficult for this experiment, but do the best you can.

© Cambridge University Press 2014 IGCSE Biology Chapter 9: Activities 2

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