Do you ride a bike? Explore maintenance and safety with the book Caring for Bicycles. This instructional resource walks young ones through the steps of checking a bicycle. As this is a nonfiction text, features such as diagrams, charts,...

Here's a sobering stat: more than 300,000 kids go to emergency rooms each year for bike injuries. Two activities help scholars learn how to avoid injuries and follow bike safety rules. Class members read three background articles related...

What are bikes made of? What did the first bicycles look like? Find out how science, such as heating alloys, is used to make a modern bicycle. People put brakes, chains, and gears together by hand! Amazing!

A well-fitting helmet can be the difference between an unfortunate bicycle accident and a tragic bicycle accident. Encourage your class to exercise bike safety with a set of lessons that demonstrate the importance of wearing a helmet,...

Apply geometric concepts to a design problem. Individuals examine the structural setup of the chain on a bicycle and use the measurements of the circles to determine the length of the chain. 

Two activities teach tweens and teens about bike safety. After reading articles about bike safety, class members design tags with important safety reminders that can be attached to bikes. Groups then create a dance video that...

Learners are introduced to the biomechanical characteristics of helmets. They incorporate these characteristics into designs for helmets for various applications. They understand that using a bicycle helmet helps to protect the brain and...

In this online bicycle safety research activity, 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 road,...

In this bicycles and tricycles learning exercise, students solve and complete 8 different problems that include counting the number of bicycles and tricycles in each store. First, they complete the table for the number of wheels on the...

Learners explore the concept of how brakes can stop or slow mechanical motion. They examine the operation of a bicycle brake and use low cost materials to devise a simple braking system. Finally, they work as a team to suggest...

learn the meanings of various signs for pedestrians, cyclists, and in-line skaters.

"Ordinary" bicycles are not so ordinary. Learners use given information to determine the circumference of wheels for a historic Ordinary or Penny Farthing bicycle. Pupils then determine the number of times each wheel turns when the...

Model a bicycle chain with circles and tangent lines. Given the dimensions of the sprocket wheels, young scholars calculate the length of the chain that surrounds them. A second task has learners write a function for the length of a...

Using a bicycle wheel and a rotating stool, young physicists experiment with angular momentum. This is a simple, fun, and educational activity that demonstrates a foundational concept. If you can secure the materials, it is definitely...

Students discover how the design of bicycles has changed over time as technology has developed. They use the Web to research bicycle history and then write a report showing how technology changed the way the bicycle looks and works.

First graders see how to operate and practice safe behavior on bicycles. They make a class chart that lists safe and unsafe behaviors when riding bicycles, then participate in a series of bike safety stations set up around the classroom.

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...

For this researching the bicycle worksheet, students discover answers to questions about bicycles in the past and present. Students write five answers.

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...

In this bike safety cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 12 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.

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,...

In this video, Sal solves a word problem sent in by a listener that has two cyclists riding towards each other over a given amount of time. It is an interesting problem regarding ratios and the relationship between distance, rate, and...

For this bicycling worksheet, learners identify and discuss forty-eight key terms associated with bicycling and circle each one in a word search puzzle.

In this pedal power worksheet, students solve a math puzzle in order to determine how much power could be generated by pedaling a bicycle. They try to figure out how much power would be needed to run a child's laptop, and how much...