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Subject: Science
Age of students: 12-13 years
Hardware: Tablets (Surface or iPad)
Heart Rate Monitors
Software: Educreations or Explain Everything
Schoology
Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying
Time needed: 80 minutes (2 class periods)
FaSMEd partner: Maynooth University

Summary:
This is a set of two lessons. In the first lesson students work in groups to decide how to measure the effect of exercise on heart rate. The teacher analyses student responses in order to plan for the second lesson. In the second lesson, after a whole class discussion, students carry out the experiment they planned in the first lesson.

Resources:

Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk