Bike Safety Presented by Sheryl L. Burdette 4-H Extension

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Bike Safety

• Presented by
• Sheryl L. Burdette
• 4-H Extension Educator

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Bicycle Statistics

• There are 85 million bicycle riders in the U.S.
• 773 bicyclists died on U.S. roads in 2006.
• 1 in 8 cyclists with reported injuries had a
  brain injury.
• Each year 300,000 kids go to the emergency
  department because of bike injuries.

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Activities

• Bike Skillathon
• Bicycle Rodeo
• Gelatin Brain Mold
• Stop Dont Use Your Head!
• Concentration Game

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Bike Skillathon

• Create stations about bicycling which could
  include
• Identifying parts of bike
• Identifying road signs
• Identifying hand signals
• Identifying bicycle related tools
• Problem solving
• Pre-riding safety check

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Bike Rodeo

• Participants will ride a bike on an obstacle
  course learning safe bike-riding principles.

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Gelatin Brain Mold

• Anatomical Chart Company
• 8221 Kimball Avenue
• Skokie, IL 60076-2956
• 1-800-621-7500
• http//www.anatomical.com/cart.asp
• Archie McPhee Company
• http//www.mcphee.com/items/10375.html
• SKS Sibley Co.
• P.O. Box 1351
• El Segundo, CA 90245
• Phone [phone]

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Stop, Dont Use Your Head!

• Use cantaloupes to demonstrate the purpose for
  wearing a helmet.
• You will need 2 cantaloupes.
• One ripe cantaloupe to drop on a hard surface so
  it cracks open
• One cantaloupe to be put in a helmet and dropped.

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Concentration Games

• Road Signs Bicycle Safety Concentration
• Directions
• Concentration Game 1-Make two sets of the
  picture pages. Youth will play concentration by
  matching the pictures.
• Concentration Game 2-Make a set of picture cards
  and a set of word cards. Youth will play
  concentration by matching the picture with the
  correct wording.
• The concentration games have been created so
  they can be copied or printed on labels to make
  it easier to put together. They are formatted
  for Avery 5163 labels

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Additional Resources

• National Safe Kids
• 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
• Suite 1000
• Washington, D.C. 20004-1707
• [phone]
• www.safekids.org
• Channing L. Bete. Company
• 200 State Rd.
• South Deerfield, MA 01373
• http//www.channing-bete.com
• Drive Your Bicycle Safely
• Coloring and Activities Book

• Bike Safety with Bill Nye The Science Guy
• http//dep.disney.go.com/educational/store/detail
  ?product_id68A37VL00
• Maryland Department of Transportation website
• http//www.sha.state.md.us/safety/bicycle_safety_
  currentlaws.asp
• Local Safety Organizations, department of public
  safety, law enforcement agencies, bike shop, etc.

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