Read Works
Read Works: Heat, Energy, and Bicycling in New York City
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how bikes can be used to solve some traffic problems in New York City. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Bicycle Problem
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Jimmy who had a flat tire on his bike. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Bicycle Wheel Gyro
Description of a museum exhibit in which the spinning bicycle wheel induces the rotation of a student in a rotating chair. Excellent demonstration idea.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design a Bicycle Helmet
The goal of the activities is for students to understand the basics of engineering associated with safety products. Using a bicycle helmet helps to protect the brain and neck during a crash. In order to do this effectively, helmets must...
CPALMS
Mountain Bicycles, Inc.
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "The Wheels of Chance"
This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The Wheels of Chance; A Bicycling Idyll."
Curated OER
[Bicycle for Two]
"1896 found the United States in the middle of a bicycle craze." Great site from Vassar College all about bicycles in the Gilded Age from 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: My Helmet
Learn how to correctly position a helmet on your head when you use a bike, scooter, or skates. Book includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Cycloid I
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is more about student prediction and reasoning than actual formal math. In the lesson, students are to propose the shape that would be formed by a point on a bicycle tire, while...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca Gets in Gear
Bianca visits a bike shop and learns how bicycle gears work in this Cyberchase video segment. [3:26]
Other
Magnum Photos: Tour De France
Thirty-one photos, many black and white, give you the essence of the Tour de France. Commentary explains its mystique and importance not in just the bicycling world, but in the world of sports.
Other
Marshall Taylor: Newspaper Articles
Watching bicycle racing indoors was a popular pasttime during the Gilded Age. Marshall Taylor, an African American, was one of the premier racers not only in the United States, but in the world. Read newspaper articles about his career.
Read Works
Read Works: The Precious Metals
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a group of girls called The Precious Metals who formed a bicycle club. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: What's Your Cycle, Style?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about seven different types of bikes and the benefits of bicycling. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Drives and Gears
Discover the basic structure of the bicycle chain drive system, and find out how it has developed over the years.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Cycling
Bicycling is a great lifetime activity. This lesson introduces the fundamentals of cycling. You will learn cycling rules, safety tips, terminology, types of bikes, and the history of cycling.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Sports and Leisure
Read about the options for leisure time in the Gilded Age for the typical American. Baseball, vaudeville, and bicycling all came into their own in the 1890s.
Other
The Rad Rider Web Site: Homepage
Use this site to meet the comic book superhero, Rad Rider. Read and listen to his comic book adventure to learn important bike safety tips. Then take the online quiz to see if you're ready to bike with Rad.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Rider
This non-prose poem questions whether riding a bicycle can help prevent the feeling of loneliness.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Science of Cycling
Very informative site from The Exploratorium about the science of bicycling. You can learn about the development of the wheel, how gears work on a bike, even how brakes were developed. Perfect site for research on bikes.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Bicycles a La Mode
This lesson explores how the mode can be used to analyze data. Learning exercises are provided for students to practice the skill.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Friends Meeting on Bicycles
Young scholars use ratio and rate to answer five questions in this real-world math performance task.
Everything ESL
Safety First!
Safety issues that are crucial for new ELL students are reviewed. Fire, bicycle, water, seatbelt, food, and weather safety and 911 services are covered with links to additional supplemental materials.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gears Go Round!
Music boxes, bicycles, and clocks all have one thing in common: GEARS. You might say that gears make the world turn, since they are in so many mechanical instruments. How do they work and how do you know which gears to use? Find out in...
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