Grade 7 class pulse-rate data charted live in a shared sheet.

The teacher shares a Google Sheet with numbered rows and no names, and each student draws a numbered slip from a bag, so no one, the teacher included, knows whose row is whose. Students record their resting pulse, their pulse straight after 30 seconds of star jumps, and again after one minute of recovery, then enter the three values in their row. A chart built into the sheet updates as the data arrive, and the teacher uses it during the lesson to ask why recovery varies across a group and what affects how fast a heart rate returns to resting. Any student who would rather not measure their own pulse takes the timekeeper role and enters values from a sample set instead. Students end by writing a conclusion about recovery rate using the class averages.

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