Get to Know Your Heart
A Biofeedback-Based SEL and STEM Program for Schools
Heart Data is an education-only program designed specifically for grades 5–9 to help students build emotional awareness and self-regulation skills using wearable biofeedback technology in a classroom setting.
Where Science Meets Self-Awareness
When students learn to recognize how their body responds to stress, they begin to identify the signs of dysregulation as they happen. The program teaches how to interrupt these responses early—before stress becomes overwhelming—by practicing a personalized toolkit of self-regulation strategies. Grounded in trauma-informed principles, the curriculum emphasizes self-care, choice, and empowerment. Using their own biometric data, students engage in pre- and post-activity analysis to discover which strategies help them regain focus and balance. This hands-on, reflective process builds emotional resilience and equips students with lifelong tools to manage their stress response system.
Calm isn’t taught—it’s practiced. Heart Data makes that practice visible, measurable, and personalized.
This 2-week, trauma-informed curriculum integrates social-emotional learning (SEL) with core math and science standards, empowering students to explore the connection between their heart rate, emotions, and daily experiences — while building critical academic and behavioral competencies.
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This trauma-informed, science-aligned curriculum empowers learners to:
- Build awareness of their stress response system
- Use data to make meaning from their own lived experience
- Develop personalized self-regulation skills they can use for life
Students use heart rate monitors to collect real-time biometric data, which they then plot, graph, and analyze — reinforcing data literacy, scientific thinking, and healthy stress management habits.
Program Features
- Aligned with 6th-grade math and science standards on data collection and graphing
- Includes 10 scaffolded lessons and a student workbook
- Trauma-informed and grounded in CASEL-aligned SEL strategies
- Delivered through school counselors, classroom teachers, or Tier 2/3 interventions
- iPads + heart rate monitor cart available for lease or purchase
- Supports behavioral goals for IEP/504 compliance
Who It’s For
- School counselors, wellness coordinators, and educators
- STEM or SEL enrichment programs
- Tier 2/3 behavioral support under MTSS
- Schools focused on trauma-informed or restorative practices
Delivery Format
- Designed exclusively for K–12 education use
- 2 weeks of Curriculum for Math, Science, Health, or Physical Education Classes
- Print and/or Fillable Digital workbook + 30 Heart Rate Monitors
- Optional Online Training
- Can be funded through ESSER, Title IV, IDEA, LCAP, or general wellness funds.
Get to Know Your Heart is exclusively an educational curriculum for school-based emotional learning and STEM integration. It is not affiliated with or related to any clinical, medical, or health-tracking technology. This program is distinct from any similarly named health software or consumer wearable and is solely intended for use in educational institutions.
Instructor Knapp: Get to Know your Stress Response System Through Biofeedback
This fillable pdf or print workbook introduces students to their stress response system and teaches them how to use a heart rate monitor to gather biofeedback and plot their heartbeats per minute. As students learn about their autonomic nervous system through a fun-loving character, Inner Lizzy,…
INCLUDES FREE ONE-HOUR ZOOM TRAINING FOR FACULTY
New! Workbook aligns and reinforces math standards around plotting and graphing biometric data.
How It Works
Students connect to a Bluetooth-enabled wearable heart rate monitor and our HeartData mobile app to view their live heartbeat in real-time. Students measure and store their resting heart rate using the Heartbeat tool. This patented tool enables a personalized, colorized heart display that changes like a mood ring, visually showing how their heart rate speeds up and slows down in response to different activities. Students engage in movement exercises to elevate their heart rate and practice breathing techniques and sensory-based grounding exercises to lower their heart rate. They learn about the heart-brain connection and the key role emotions play in their physiological state. Using this live biofeedback, they learn to track these neurobiological changes and log the color of their heart throughout the school day. The program provides an array of sensory-based self-regulation strategies that students then practice and record pre- and post-activity measurements. This process guides students through the process of exploring how stress and regulation affect the heart and what strategies best help them in times of stress and emotional dysregulation.
Through guided reflection logs, students chart their own data, identify patterns, and assess the effectiveness of various self-regulation strategies. As they progress, they build a personalized list of five strategies that help them manage stress and support emotional well-being. All strategies are included in the workbook and app, providing a structured path for self-discovery and growth.
HeartData™ works with any Bluetooth-connected heart rate monitor and is currently compatible with iPhone and iPad only.
This program is ideal for any school interested in teaching students how the body and mind respond to stress—and encouraging the lifelong skill of self-regulation, which can lead to greater self-awareness, resilience, and academic success.
by Instructor Knapp 