Wearable Technology – Secondary

Wearable Technology has made monitoring our health and wellbeing a part of daily life. But what does all this data mean?

In this program, class sets of wearable technology devices allow students to complete a number of mathematical, scientific and health investigations.

A BioLAB team will visit your school to get your students active while wearing Polar fitness watches to generate comparable data sets. The BioLAB team will then follow up their visit by providing reports and resources to help you analyse the heart rate and energy expenditure data. This program is a wonderful way to introduce your students to data analysis using personal data.

Learning Intention:

To record and interpret personal Polar Watch data in the context of recommended physical activity guidelines.

Success Criteria:

• Find information on a Polar Watch data report.
• Relate personal data to physical activity recommendations.
• Construct data representations.
• Analyse and describe a data set.
• Compare two data sets.

Students will:

• Wear Polar Watches for the school day.
• Use their maths skills to interpret their Polar Watch report and relate the data to physical activity recommendations.

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