Gears 1, 2 & 3
PBS's lesson plan and activity.
Read about Bike Safety Rules.
Bicycle spelling words for Gears 1, 2, and 3.
Drag and drop the items you need for a bicycle ride. Have a safe ride!
Write about the differences between a tricycle and bicycle. How many wheels are there? Where are the wheels attached? Why do you think
                       a bicycle is faster? Which is easier to learn? 
Think about when you first learned to ride a bicycle or tricycle. How did you feel? Write about your experience.
Think about the steps you must take to ride a bicycle. When you decide to ride, what do you do first? What's next? Use numbers to create 
                       a numered list. Don't forget to list safety rules for riding!
We love athletic competition and idolize our sports heroes. Visit Medal Maker to create a medal of honor for your own "hero." (hint: your 
                      hero doesn't have to be involved in sports!) 
Monster Nutrition--learn about food groups while you Feed the Monster!
Learn by playing these staying fit games.
Think of lots of words associated with bicycling and a healthy lifestyle. Make a shape poem using the words to form a bicycle wheel.

Gears 2-5 
Gear Up! Bicycle Safety writing activity

Gears 3-6
Take a bike ride at Safe Road Riding and learn safety rules.
Read about Bike Safety Rules and then take this Hot Potatoes Bike Safety gap quiz.
Bicycle Safety spelling words for Gears 4 and 5.

Gears 4-8
Learn about the Food Pyramid. Make healthy food choices while playing My Pyramid Food Choices. Blast off!
Think of lots of words associated with bicycling and a healthy lifestyle. Make a shape poem with them that looks like a bicycle
                      wheel.
Visit Diamante Poems. Create a synonym diamante poem about bicycling or a healthy lifestyle.
Make a concept map about a healthy body. What is a concept map? Here's an example. Create a CMap using these concepts and add more!
                      You can make a concept map with Inspiration software, also.
Learn the math behind bicycle wheel rotation at PBS's 'Wheel' Figure This Out.
McMillan/McGraw Hill's 4th Grade Wheels in Motion e-Journal
How Gears Work at McMillan/McGraw Hill's 6th Grade Science 
Write an expository (how-to) essay about the steps to riding a bicycle.
Propelled by Pedals: a fun guide to bikes answers lots of questions about choosing a bicycle, obeying laws, professional bikers, and lots more!
History Timeline of the Bicycle has drawings and explanations of the first bicycles.

Gears 5-8
Try Science: Design a healthy workout. "This inquiry utilizes four features of the Tryscience web site... to facilitate
                      development of student understanding."
Heading for Trouble: View a graph about student risk factors in sports at the Why? Files.
Endurance Training: Surviving the Tour at the Why? Files.
The bad ethics of blood doping.

Gears 7 & 8
Explore this website about the science of cycling at Sport Science. There are many bicycling activities. 

Learn how a concept map looks by viewing this Inspiration software example: Newton's Laws of Motion Concept Map. 

Fine Arts activities:
Use marshmallows and toothpicks to make wheels on a bicycle.  
Weave colorful crepe paper or ribbon between the spokes of an old bicycle (or cardboard cutout) and hang it on the wall or place it on a 
                      display stand. 
Bend flexible wire into a bicycle sculpture. 
Make a mural of bicycle scenes.  Lesson plan from muralmosaic.com.
Download Artweaver and paint a bicycle picture of your own.

Do you know any songs about bicycles? Listen to this one: Get Yourself A Bike. What instruments do you hear? Have a 
                      contest to see who can count the most types of instruments in the song. What lyric practices does the songwriter use? Bike lyrics
                      Can you identify the ways everyone in this song makes their voice work together? Learn more about music at The Music Lab.
Using the song above, create a Photo Story or Movie Maker video with the audio playing as background music. What type of images
                      would you use to accompany the song? Think of the type of photos, graphics or drawings that would make the song fun or playful.
                      Get Yourself A Bike lyrics

Resources:     Holt's Graphic Organizers       Nutrition Café      Food Pyramid        Acceleration of Different Masses        Webspiration

Tutorials:     CMap Tools       Inspiration