Cardio Quiz Calendar

Celebrate Heart Month and your Jump Rope or Hoops for Heart event all month long with this interactive fun-fact movement calendar! Reveal the question of the day at the beginning of your class and instruct the kids to answer the questions with movement!
Remember! Heart health affects everything you do. Treat your heart right with physical activity and good nutrition.

How To Use This Calendar

Directions:

  • Reveal and announce the question of the day.
  • Have your students guess the answer by performing the corresponding movements displayed in multiple choice key below.
  • Keep things fun! Students should “respond” to the question with their movement answer choice all together.
  • Reveal the answer choice that the majority of the students chose. Wrong answer? Keep exploring!

Other Ways to Use this Calendar

  • Use at the beginning or end of class as quick knowledge check.
  • Share the link with classroom teachers to use as physical activity breaks in class.
  • Use during morning announcements to get the whole school moving!
  • Share with parents in an online newsletter.
  • Assign the question of the day as homework and have students quiz their family members.

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Download a PDF of the Cardio Quiz Calendar

Teacher Resource - Answer Key

1

    Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart are called:
  1. Arteries
  2. Veins
  3. Valves
  4. Atria

 

2

    The smallest blood vessels are called:
  1. Veins
  2. Arteries
  3. Capillaries
  4. Phalanges

 

5

    Your body's blood system is called:
  1. Digestive system
  2. Respiratory system
  3. Circulatory system
  4. Solar system

 

6

    You can keep your heart strong by:
  1. Eating heart-shaped candy
  2. Being physically active, like playing outside, riding your bike and jumping rope
  3. Smoking
  4. Sleeping 18 hours a day

 

7

    Your heart is about the same size as:
  1. A cherry
  2. A watermelon
  3. Your fist
  4. A chicken

 

8

    Your heart provides your body with:
  1. Oxygen
  2. Nutrients
  3. A way to get rid of waste
  4. All of the above

 

9

    How much blood does the average-sized heart pump in a day?
  1. 2,000 gallons
  2. 10 gallons
  3. 1 gallon
  4. 50,000 gallons

 

12

    How many chambers does the heart have?
  1. Six
  2. Five
  3. Four
  4. Three

 

13

    Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called:
  1. Arteries
  2. Veins
  3. Valves
  4. Atria

 

14

    About how many times does the heart beat each day?
  1. 1,000,000
  2. 1,000
  3. 10,000
  4. 100,000

 

15

    Which of the following is true?
  1. The average human heart weighs about 7-11 ounces.
  2. A baby's heart beats twice as fast as an adult's.
  3. The human heart is a muscle.
  4. All of the above

 

16

    The beating sound your heart makes comes from:
  1. Blood going in the wrong direction
  2. Valves opening & closing
  3. The heart skipping beats
  4. Your ears playing tricks on you

 

19

    The greatest risk to a healthy heart is:
  1. Smoking
  2. Not getting enough physical activity
  3. Eating lots of salty food
  4. All of the above

 

20

    What part of the heart pumps into all parts of the body?
  1. Left ventricle
  2. Right ventricle
  3. Right atrium
  4. Aorta

 

21

    What part of the heart does the blood with less oxygen flow to first?
  1. Right atrium
  2. Right ventricle
  3. Left ventricle
  4. Left atrium

 

22

    Your heart is a:
  1. Bone
  2. Muscle
  3. Tendon
  4. Ligament

 

23

    What does the blood do while it's in the lungs?
  1. It rests.
  2. It picks up oxygen.
  3. It gives away oxygen.
  4. It picks up waste gases.

 

26

    The heart's pumping action circulates all of our blood throughout the body _ times per minute?
  1. Once
  2. 10 times
  3. Twice
  4. 3 times

 

27

    If you lined up all your blood vessels in a row, how far would they stretch?
  1. 6 miles
  2. 600 miles
  3. 60,000 miles
  4. 600,000 miles

 

28

    The largest artery in the heart is the:
  1. Septum
  2. Aorta
  3. Capillaries
  4. Femur