Today's Classroom Activities :

Bike Month Activities

Celebrate American Bike Month
Bike Month means going over safety rules for riding a bike. Make a bike safety poster for the hall. Invite someone from the local bike shop to talk about bike maintenance.

My Bike and I
Geography/Writing Have students print maps of the local area in your computer lab. Ask them each to mark where they have ridden their bikes. Also have them write about particular experiences they have had while riding their bikes. Talk about other countries and cities where adults use bikes rather than cars to commute to work. What might be some of the reasons? Could we be using bikes more in our country than we do? How could we help influence that change?

A Bike Track
Physical Education/Health After talking about bicycle safety this month, see about setting up a bike path around your school playground or ball fields. Have students measure the length of the track and the amount of time it takes to ride around it. How many times could they ride around it in 30 minutes? Sponsor the bike hike as part of your field day activities this year.

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