In a Heartbeat Activity - Lesson Plan
The lesson plan incorporats an activity that uses fitness as an example to make a scatterplot. The lesson plan incorporates using a fitness instructor as a speaker to explain the relationship between working out and the heartrate. The students will then participate in an activity that will require them to plot a scatterplot and then try to find the line of best fit. It has discussion questions as well as extension and connections. This lesson plan is very detailed. It will have the student plot their heartrate before and after a fitness activity. The students will have to determine the correlation between beginning heartrate and ending heartrate. They will try to find the line of best fit of the class as well. It requires that the students be active learners. The discussion questions can be linked to a journaling activity.
