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Sports Safety Role Play
Students role-play sports situations and determine the actions needed to stay safe from injuries. They define the term sports safety, develop short skits about situations involving sports safety, and work together in cooperative groups.
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Seat Belts and Bike Helmets
Students answer questions on seat belts and bike helmets. In this seat belt and bike helmet lesson plan, students watch a demonstration with eggs and simulated seat belt and bike helmet about why some eggs broke and some stayed safe...
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Mountain Biking - Riding Uphill
Mountain biking sounds like a lot of fun, but it also sounds like a lot of hard work! You have to get uphill to enjoy the ride downhill. Learn about shifting gears to go uphill and to keep your weight balanced properly. This is one...
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Mountain Biking - Lesson 3 - Starting Up a Steep Hill
Knowing how to start up a steep hill while mountain biking is a good skill to have. Otherwise, if one stoppped part way up and couldn't get started up again, what would be the point. This lesson offers up some good cues in getting set to...
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Fun with Bikes!
An important and engaging lesson on bicycles and bicycle safety that will enlighten and educated your class. Learners are shown the most important bicycle safety rules. After a discussion about what they already know about bicycles,...
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Helmet Safety
Fourth graders watch a video and a demonstration and then share their experiences walking and riding their bicycle. They explore how to ride and walk safely.
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Bicycle Safety- Online Research Activity
In this online bicycle safety research worksheet, students use the links to complete 21 fill in the blank and short answer questions. They determine the important things about getting the correct size of bike, learn the rules of the...
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Bike Safety
Students examine the importance of wearing bicycle helmets. In this bicycle safety lesson, students watch a demonstration of what occurs when a melon is dropped before relating it to falling off a bike and hitting your head. They talk...
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative activity, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will design...
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Safety
In this safety worksheet, students determine if safety statements are true or false. Both fire safety and bicycle safety are addressed. Students answer 18 true/false questions and then devise a safety plan for their home.
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Healthy Kids: Creating Safe Communities And Schools
Students create a safety poster in small groups after a discussion on playground safety issues. They concentrate on bike safety, skating safety and general playground safety. After sharing the posters with the class they role-play safety...
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Funds for Fun and Safety
Students discuss helmet safety. In this service learning lesson, students investigate the importance of bike helmets and compose a friendly letter in order to plan a fund-raising bake sale to purchase helmets for those in need.
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Bicycle Safety Rodeo
Students participate in nine different stations in a series of bike handling drills and the simulation of traffic situations.
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The Rights of Bike Riders
Students write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about the bicycle helmet safety issue. They gather statistics about bicycle helmet use and discuss the statistics as a class and explain how to interpret the numbers accurately. They...
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Helmet Safety/ Travis's Story
Fourth graders investigate the concept of walking and riding a bicycle as necessary forms of transportation. They watch a video about bicycle safety and write a reflection about notes taken from the video. Students conduct an experiment...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Safety and Security
Students, with the help of a vocabulary list of terms involving safety and security procedures, analyze pictures of recreational activities found in magazines/dictionaries and in groups review all the safety and security procedures...
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Gear up for National Bicycle Month!
Celebrate Bike Month with a ride to school or anywhere your two wheels take you.
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Brain Injury
Young scholars study safety and witness a tragic egg accident to see the effect of not wearing a helmet. They create helmets for their own eggs using paper, styrofoam, or anything else that cushions the egg and drop the protected egg.
NOAA
Prepare for the Storm!
Severe weather can occur with or without warning. Being prepared for any situation makes chances of survival that much greater. A brief activity suggests a list of items for an emergency book bag. The first page provides 12 suggested...
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.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Head Injury
Learn all the important facts about a head injury. Topics include: what is it, causes, different kinds, symptoms, diagnosis, first aid, prevention, and more. Click on included graphic images to view additional related topics such as...
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Kids Health: Bike Safety
Learn about bike injuries, the importance of wearing a helmet, and how to maintain your bike.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Bicycles
A very extensive site from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that deals with all aspects of bicycle safety. Click on the menu under Useful Information to find activities and materials for kids, information for parents,...
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Kids Health: Steering Your Way to Bicycle Safety
Follow the bicycle safety checklist to a fun and safe biking experience.