Bike Safety Guide with Active Learning Stations for Elementary Students
© Bike West Hartford, Inc., updated 15 May 2024, with Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license
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Objective: We designed four active-learning stations to engage upper-elementary students (ideally 3rd grade, ages 9-10) with ten safety reminders in our two-page English-Spanish Bike Safety Guide. We offer this curriculum as an alternative to the school assembly lecture model (where adults tell students to be safe, but meaningful learning is minimal) and the full-scale hands-on bike instruction model (where bicycles are integrated into the physical education curriculum for one week, but many schools lack resources to rent or purchase a bike fleet, or lack staffing and training to make it happen). As an all-volunteer non-profit organization, we have freely shared our curriculum for others to build on.
Credits: CT Department of Transportation and the Capitol Region Council of Governments awarded a $5,000 Active Transportation Microgrant to Bike West Hartford Inc. in April 2024 for this project. BWH volunteers: Jack Dougherty, Richelle Efland, Hector Correa, Ethan Frankel, Tom Martin, Eric Riotte. Thank you to Charter Oak principal Georgina Rivera for partnering with us, and the family of Eva Luna and Espy for agreeing to be photographed for our guide. Resources we consulted: Federal Highway Administration, Bicycle Safer Journey videos; Bike WalkCT “Bicycle Education Curriculum for 4th Grade Elementary Students,” 2019, print only.
Bike Safety Guide, English and Spanish, two pages
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Active Learning Stations (notes for educators)
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Tabletop Station roadways on foam board, 18 x 24 inches
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Safety picture cards, print two-sided, 8.5 x 11 inches
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