May 17, 2006: Bicycling Today
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Activities:
1. Bicycle helmets must be
designed to meet safety rules, but they can be painted or decorated any
way you like. Draw a large bicycle helmet on a piece of paper. Now color
or decorate your helmet just the way you want it.
2. Collect pictures and words
about bicycles and cycling equipment from newspaper ads and photos. Use
your pictures and words, plus colored markers or paints, to create a bicycling
collage.
3. Find newspaper ads for local
businesses or special events. Identify three locations you might be able
to travel to on a bicycle. Now identify three locations that you would
not use a bicycle to travel to. Explain why it would not be a good idea
to bicycle to those locations.
4. Which of the bicycle safety
rules in today's Mini Page are about (a) being courteous to drivers and
bicycle riders who share the road with you, (b) what you have to do to
get ready to ride your bicycle, and (c) what you have to do when you ride
your bicycle under special weather or road conditions.
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about bicycles. Use these questions to guide your research:
- When was the first bicycle invented?
- What did the first bicycles look like?
- When did cycling become a competitive sport?
- How have bicycles changed over the years?
- What is unusual or special about bicycles today?
This week's standards:
- Students understand
that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge,
self-expression and social interaction. Students apply movement concepts
and principles to the learning and development of motor skills. (Physical
Education)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
