Grade Level: Grade 3
Subjects:
Health
Social Studies
Language arts
Learner Outcomes:
1.) Student will identify safety gear.
2.) Student will explain safety rules for bicycling.
Duration of lesson: 1 - 30 minute class period.
Materials:
Bicycle helmets in various sizes
Knee pads
wrist guards
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Transparancy and markers
Overhead projector
Computers with Internet access
Printer
Teacher Notes:
Vocabulary: safety gear, helmet
Modify this lesson to meet the needs of students
with IEPs and 504 plans.
Procedures:
1.) Students will brainstorm the safety gear needed
when riding a bicycle. Place ideas on transparancy and use overhead.
Discuss the importance of each item. (Examples may be: helmet, knee
pads, wrist guards,etc.)
2.) Students will visit web site and locate bicycle
safety rules . Students will print out rules to take
home. Teacher will orally review these rules with students.
3..)Students will make a bicycle safety rules mural.
Have groups of 4 students
draw the mural illustrating the bicycle safety rules.
4..) Have the class play the "Can you Find It ?" game.
Students state their safety rule and other students attempt to locate the
rule on the mural (s).
Modifications:
Modify to meet the specific needs of students with
IEPs and 504 plans.
Enrichment Activities:
Continue to seach the WEB at home and report findings
to class.
Evaluation/Assessment:
sample
rubric
Take Rad
Rider Bicycle Safety Test
West Virginia IGOs:
Health
: 3.2, 3.6, 3.11
Social Studies : 3.12, 3.41, 3.42
Language
Arts: 3.14, 3.27, 3.41, 3.46
National Standards:
Health : 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.4, 5.2.2, 5.2.5
Social
Studies: 1.1.3, 1.1.6, 1.2.1
Language
Arts : 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4
References:
YOUR HEALTH
Grade 3 (1999). Gibbons, Charlie; Middleton, Kathleen;
Ozias, Jan Marie; and Stockton, Carl. Harcourt, Brace, and Company.
New York, NY
Bicycle
safety web site
Helmet safety
web site
Authors:
| Michael R. Akers | Mary K. Perdue | Sharon Powers |
| Overview | Lesson 1 | Lesson 2 | Lesson 3 | Lesson 4 | Lesson 5 |