Name:___________________ Date: ___________________

Does exercise affect heart rate? How?

Introduction:
This lab is about the heart rate during exercise. We will research into how
exercise affects your heart rate. You will have to figure out your own heart
rate (mine was 70 BPM).- (What does BPM stand for?)
What is your heart rate while stationery:

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Research questions:

Eg. How do you find your heart rate?

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Other information I have found:


What do I already know?



Is there anything else that I need to find out?


Hypothesis: If..........then........because.
(Make an educated guess based on your research/ knowledge
Why do you think this will happen?)
Variables:


The independent variable is:
(the one variable that you will change)

The dependent variable is:
(The variable that you are investigating)



Control Variables
The factors that you keep the same, so that the experiment is a fair test. Try and list at least 5.
Factors to be
controlled:
Reason it needs to be
controlled:
How it will be controlled:
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3
4
5






Materials:







Method:
(Clear and concise Instructions of how you will test - step by step)

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etc













Data and Observation:
What did you see? What was interesting? Was there a pattern?













Results:

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5 AVG.
Test 1



Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5 AVG.
Test 2

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5 AVG.
Test 3




Can your graph this data? Use the graph below or you can use graph
paper - just ask Ms Richards







Conclusion:
These are the points you need to write about in your conclusion
Was your hypothesis correct?


Support your findings with the data you collected.
What would you change if you repeated the experiment?
Was it a fair test?
Any interesting observations?





















Reliability of the method:
Were there enough trials?
Did multiple trials give similar data?
Are there anomalous (something strange, unexpected) points?



Reliability of data. Explanation (why / why not?)


a) Did the measuring in-
struments collect data that
can be trusted?



b) Was the experiment re-
peated enough times?



c) Did the measuring in-
strument collect precise
data?


What instruments did you use?

Where they reliable? Why/why not?







Did the multiple trials give similar data?
If your data differed - what caused this?



Size of sample.
Was the range large
enough?

This is the range of data
you collected. If your test
went for 1min, 2 min and 3
min - this was your range.
Did your range provide
you with strong data to
support your hypothesis?




Using all this information
- was this a fair test?
Why? Why no?

Any other information you found or observations you made: