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Integrating Bicycle Safety into Your Curriculum:
Bike mechanics lesson at UMS. (2013)
Art or Computer Class: Create posters promoting Bike to School Day and safe driving and cycling messages.
Geography: Survey and create maps of biking routes to school. Use blogs or e-mail to follow a cross-country or intercontinental biking trip for charity.
Health: Measure riding time accumulated by students; study health benefits of physical activity.
Physical Education: Teach physical conditioning. Learn walking warm-ups and stretches and do some progressively longer walks in class to prepare for Bike to School Day. Host a bike rodeo (bicycle skills clinic) so that students can learn how to ride a bicycle safely.
Mathematics: Keep logs of bicycling times; calculate speeds and distances, individual and group averages, trends and statistical analysis.
General Science: Calculate the reduction in carbon impact of biking to school compared to vehicle travel. Learn about clean air initiatives and the effect on public health.
Physics: Study the biomechanics of basic drive mechanics on bikes. Study how bike gears work and different types of brakes function.
Biology: Look for specific plant or animal species, or inventory indigenous species along biking routes. Catalog seasonal changes in the flora and fauna. Keep a log of temperatures related to levels of biking.
English: Write press releases and public service announcements to promote Bike to School Day. Write essays or keep a diary about your experiences riding.
History: Study historical locations in your community by walking or biking to them.
Social Sciences: Photograph important things about your community that you notice while walking or riding to school. Anything you'd like to change? What can you do about it? Start a pen-pal project with kids in other countries who walk or bike to school.
Geography: Survey and create maps of biking routes to school. Use blogs or e-mail to follow a cross-country or intercontinental biking trip for charity.
Health: Measure riding time accumulated by students; study health benefits of physical activity.
Physical Education: Teach physical conditioning. Learn walking warm-ups and stretches and do some progressively longer walks in class to prepare for Bike to School Day. Host a bike rodeo (bicycle skills clinic) so that students can learn how to ride a bicycle safely.
Mathematics: Keep logs of bicycling times; calculate speeds and distances, individual and group averages, trends and statistical analysis.
General Science: Calculate the reduction in carbon impact of biking to school compared to vehicle travel. Learn about clean air initiatives and the effect on public health.
Physics: Study the biomechanics of basic drive mechanics on bikes. Study how bike gears work and different types of brakes function.
Biology: Look for specific plant or animal species, or inventory indigenous species along biking routes. Catalog seasonal changes in the flora and fauna. Keep a log of temperatures related to levels of biking.
English: Write press releases and public service announcements to promote Bike to School Day. Write essays or keep a diary about your experiences riding.
History: Study historical locations in your community by walking or biking to them.
Social Sciences: Photograph important things about your community that you notice while walking or riding to school. Anything you'd like to change? What can you do about it? Start a pen-pal project with kids in other countries who walk or bike to school.
Community Awareness Ideas:
· For schools who want to have a big event C-U SRTS can notify the U of I Student Athlete’s Volunteer Coordinator and see if any of them would like to bike to school with students or participate in bike rodeos, etc.
· Invite local elected officials to participate in school events
· Mark routes to school with school mascots
· Invite local elected officials to participate in school events
· Mark routes to school with school mascots
C-U SRTS Project will provide to schools on request:
To request materials please contact us.
· Bikeability Checklists
· Bicycle safety announcements for the schools to use leading up to the day
· Handouts to send home to parents showing best routes
· Bike to School banners and/or flyers
· “Sara and Her Bike” Safety Coloring Sheet
· Bike Rap
· On Top of My Bike Song (sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey)
· ABC Quick Check sheet
· Bike Riding Dangers sheet – find the hazards worksheet
· Message Decoder worksheet – decoding safety messages
· SRTS Word Scramble sheet
· Bicycle safety announcements for the schools to use leading up to the day
· Handouts to send home to parents showing best routes
· Bike to School banners and/or flyers
· “Sara and Her Bike” Safety Coloring Sheet
· Bike Rap
· On Top of My Bike Song (sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey)
· ABC Quick Check sheet
· Bike Riding Dangers sheet – find the hazards worksheet
· Message Decoder worksheet – decoding safety messages
· SRTS Word Scramble sheet
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