What is the heart doing while it beats?
What other parts of your body are made of muscles?
Why does he use a rubber ducky to show how the heart works? How is it similar?
What are you really feeling when you feel your pulse?
You can skip the finding the heart size to cut out if you don't have the paper in the packet or if you did not print it, but how many beats per second do you predict the heart beats?
How many beats per 30 seconds did your heart beat? (If you could not find it, write the number you counted on the activity).
You can do the next exercise with or without crumpled paper, just squeeze your hand. Could you do that all day and night? Why or why not?
Pick an activity you think will make your heart beat faster and then use the timer to see what your pulse is after doing that activity. Your answer will start like this. My heart beat ______ times in 30 seconds when sitting, but it beat ____ times in 30 seconds while I / after I was __________________________.