Bike Safety
                                                                      By: Scott Przystas 

Project at a Glance :

This project is for 4th grade Physical Education class during a biking unit. Students will explore the bikes skills necessary to be Physically Literate in week one and in week two they will focus on promoting a bike friendly community at their school.  This is a two week, ten class unit. ​
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Driving Question:

How do we promote a bike friendly community at Mary A White Elementary?             

Standards:

• ​Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
• Standard 4:  The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
• Standard 5:  The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.

Team / Culture Building:

• Use COMCHI cards, WE Connect cards and Ubuntu cards to create team culture for the project.​

​Entry Event:

• Introduce the Velo Kids Obstacle Course.

Stakeholders:

• LMB (League of Michigan Bicyclists)​​

​Empathy Building:

• Create an Empathy Map - What does a Physically Literate Bicyclist see, think, say, and do?

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Students will use sticky notes to write down everything the need to know to be physically literate bicyclist.
• Conduct interviews with  City Manager - Ashley Latsch and  Velo Kids Executive Director Jenny White

Incubation:

• The class will use “free play” to get students to think outside of the box and explore the possibilities with a piece of equipment to keep them active and moving.Give students 5-7 minutes to explore and as long as they are being safe.
  
• The Anti-Problem:  Students will explore how they will be the worst unsafe cyclist ever by drawing pictures and using sticky notes. ​​

Checking in:

• Students will use sticky notes to identify Pluses and Deltas of what is working and identify what opportunities there are for improvement throughout the project
• Tell it to a Toddler -  strategy so that they fully understand what solutions they are coming up with. This will help them guage how much they know and don’t know about their solution in each group. ​

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Solution Building:

• Student groups will  use photographs to show their solutions and then present them to the group as a whole.
• Followed by the Filtering and Objectives protocol to make ideas specific and on-task to the objectives.

Critique and Revision: 

• Groups will use Dot Voting to narrow our decision for solutions to move forward with. 
• Feedback will be given using the “I Like, I Wish, What if” protocol to get revision ideas and critique from each group. ​

Authentic Audience:

• During week one, the authentic audience will be the Velo Kids ED Jenny White.
• During week two, our authentic audience will be the City Manager and Principal. 

Final Presentation:

• Each group will prototype their solution using PE equipment to design their Bike Safety event. Then, with Legos, they will design and build a safe biking community. 

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

• Students will share ideas and pictures of what we might be able to improve and what will work. 
  
• Use a basic check in/check out assessment tool to show that they were being cooperative and  contributing to the work.
  
• Use the Pluses and Deltas protocol for reflection. 
  
• Students will reflect in their groups using the Start, Stop and Continue protocol.

Click here for the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet . . .

Meet the Educator:
Scott Przystas teaches Y5-4th grade Physical Education in Grand Haven Area Public Schools. 

     "PBL helps me be creative in my teaching by taking common units to a whole new level of understanding and thinking for my students."