My decision to make my lesson more creative is by giving the students a visual of their heart rate instead of just them feeling their pulse. When they see the information they can understand their different levels of heart rate and I can explain to them why each level is good or bad. Since there are more than 20 people, trying to get each heart rate would take hours, but with the monitors and the screen we can see all of them at once! My lesson is novel because the students will remember getting to use this technology and actually seeing the data themselves. My lesson is effective because they get to do the activities while tracking their heart rate and they can see how their heart rate changes as the activity changes. Therefore showing them how heart rate works. This lesson is whole because it teaches them the basics, has them do the activity, and then show their data at the end. Then we can use this data for other activities or use it again at a later time to see if their heart rate has become different. My decisions in the process have shown myself as a designer by giving the students a different way to look at their heart rate and apply it to different aspects afterward. By having the little ones I would be limited to how far we can take this information, but it would be interesting what ways we could create together.
