Resources for this Week's News-2-You: City Bikes

City Bikes

General Resources

• Bixi System
• Bixi.com
  
• Bixi on Wikipedia
• Video Clip of Bixi Bike

Science

• EPA Kids Air Pollution Page
• What is Air Pollution? (PDF)
• Clean and Dirty Air
• Air Pollution Reading with Quiz

Life Skills/Social Studies

• Bike Safety
• Street Sign Worksheet
• Sign Shapes
• Online Traffic Sign Quiz
• Street Sign Photo Slide Show
• Street Sign Gallery Quiz

Arts and Crafts

• make street signs (then use in adapted P.E. see below)
  

Adapted P.E.

• make an obstacle course where students follow street signs they have made (can be on bikes if you have any riders
• pedal palooza - have students pedal either using hand pedalers, stationary bikes, adapted bikes or regular bikes - earn points for minutes pedaled and give prizes

Sensory

• set up several fans with switches and attach crepe paper and foil streamers (connection - clean air)
• get some remote control toy bike (toy motorcycles are fine) and adapt for switches or run via IR on AAC devices hold races or derbies