Year 6 Investigate the Heart in Science

As part of our science curriculum, Year 6 have been learning how to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.  They also investigated the effect of exercise on our heart rate.  In these pictures you will see the children: estimating how much blood, in litres, an adult human has; taking a resting pulse rate and then exercising for 2 minutes and taking another pulse reading in beats per minute.  The children completed three different types of exercises and they will plot a graph to see which exercise had the most impact on their heart rate.