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Hans Lubich (Lubey031)
Junior Member
Username: Lubey031
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2011
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 11:08 am: |       |
When using heart rate monitors in class what is an appropriate age for students to start wearing a Monitor? |
Paul Dudley (Dudspizza)
Junior Member
Username: Dudspizza
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2011
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 10:40 am: | |
We typically start using HRM with 3rd graders. 3rd grade is where kids start to work on target heart rate zones and pulse rates. Prior to that, our first and second graders work on recognizing when their heart rate changes and what movements and activities change the speed of their heart.
We use the Insta-Pulse model 107 hand-held models, so they don't have to put them on. They simply stop at the monitor, check their heart rate and off they go. We also teach the kids how to manually take their HR.
Best of luck. |
Kyle Askins (Kyle_askins)
Junior Member
Username: Kyle_askins
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 - 10:55 am: | |
I would say that introducing elementary level children to heart rate monitors is definitely a good idea in the methods listed above. As far as requiring students to wear them and perhaps be graded upon the basis of a heart rate zone, I would say that needs to wait until high school. Until high school, children should be concentrating on other aspects of fitness and just participation in activities for the sake of experiencing and learning the activities. Also, children's heart rates would be difficult to establish an average heart rate zone in which they could all fall into. If using heart rate monitors on younger children especially, the appropriate ranges would have to be individually set, which could be highly inconvenient and time consuming. In the end, I would say wait until the students are at a higher level of knowledge and development to implicate heart rate monitors fully. |
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