Keeping the beat in gym class: Plano ISD: Elementaries use heart rate monitors to better track exercise.

From: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) | Date: December 25, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Kim Breen

Dec. 25--Cheryl Kool can't rely on quizzes to measure her students' effort.

But the Plano physical education teacher gets plenty of hard data about their work -- it's on their wrists.

Heart rate monitors, once reserved for hard-core athletes, are increasingly common in school gyms. Plano secondary schools have used them for more than a decade. But this fall, the devices reached students in elementary schools, including fourth- and fifth-graders at Barksdale Elementary School, where Ms. Kool teaches. Several area districts, including Mesquite and ...

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