Bike Helmet Safety

Participants will investigate statistics concerning bike safety related to helmets and will increase awareness of the importance of always wearing a helmet.
 

Instructional Objective:  Students will

  • Increase awareness of bike safety and use of helmets
  • Learn to use a data base
  • Learn to interpret data
  • Increase awareness of how the internet can be used to share information

  • Content/Summary of what Project is about.

    The class will compose a questionaire concerning the number of students in a school, number who ride bikes to school, number who regularly wear helmets, etc. This questionaire will be sent to participating schools, participants will be asked to visit a web site, play games, and read information there. They will then be asked to fill out a post-project questionaire.
     

    Grade Level targeted by Project

    This project is appropriate for all levels but fourth and fifth grades will be targeted.
     

    Activities - Listing of Activities which will compromise the Project's Implementaion

    Timeline
     
    September 15 Create pre-project questionaire 
    October 1 Post project on the internet and begin receiving responses, enter in data base
    November 1 Send all participants the post questionaire
    November 15 Evaluate all responses

    Assessment

    Students will write an evaluation of the project.
     
     

    This page cresated by Sally Jones, Professional Development Specialist at Fannin Elementary, Bryan ISD. Last updated 8/3/99.