Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Columbia: Lessons in health

By Stacie Bell

July 18
Last Tuesday we had an awesome FAMA lesson and activity with the kids. At the beginning of the lesson we talked about why it is important to stay healthy by being physically active. For the past few weeks we have had soccer and dance practice, so we used that as a good example of staying fit. We talked about how the heart works, how it pumps oxygen to your muscles, and we taught the kids how to take their heart rate. We had them take their resting heart rate, and we wrote it on a poster by their names. Then we set up an obstacle course for them and took their heart rate after they had run through the course a couple times. It was great! They understood the increased heart rate after they ran. Here we are writing down their heart rates.

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