Pulse Rates

Download this 23 – slide colourful PowerPoint for KS2 on Pulse Rates. A great resource to help children recognise that pulse rate is a measure of how fast the heart is beating, shows how to make measurements of pulse rate and includes an investigation children can do to recognise that during exercise the heart beats faster to take blood more rapidly to muscles. It demonstrates how to make careful measurements of pulse rate & represent these in graphs. It also explains why repeated measurements of pulse rate should be made and why it is important to test the effects of exercise on the pulse rate of several people. Great for KS2 primary science!