This lesson will intensify students commitment to bike saftey. It will motivate students through use of an adventure learning component involving use of maps to find real world destinations, and optimally safe neighborhood bike routes. Especially for kids that are gearing to do their first bike rides.
Audience: Middle School and Higher
Estimate Time: 2hrs classroom and 2hrs on the road
Author: Unknown
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A Study On the Development of Connecting Routes from the Neighborhood to the Riverfront Trail
Goals: To introduce basic principles of urban planning and to explore aspects of river ecology, commerce and relationships of the River to urban development. Also its a great idea to take children outside the classroom setting and gain the experiences in neighborhood planning and development.
Audience: Middle School and Higher
Author: Roy Bohn
EstimatedTime: 1-2 hrs
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Designing and Building Your Own Recumbent, diagrams and drawing are available.
Audience: Junior High School and Higher
Estimate Time: 4-5hrs
[reprinted by permission from “Bohn, R. (1999). Pedaling adventure…sustainable approaches to education and transportation. St. Louis: Small Blue Planet.”]
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This covers stragies that will teach participants about their community: the kind of people that lives near them, who they can reach in case of emergency, and how their community can be positive support to them while riding.
Audience: Junior High School and Higher
Estimate Time: 1-2hrs
Author: Cyntha McArthur
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This Map Making exercise will teach participants on how to discover certain things in their neighborhood. Such as locating features, landmarks on maps, and Indentify road/traffic hazards found in neighborhood.
Audience: Middle School and Higher
Estimate Time: 2-3hrs
Author: Unknown
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