Teacher Seminar: Walk/Bike Topics for the Classroom

Teacher Professional Development Seminar: Walk/Bike Topics for the Classroom

No matter how you commute to school, you can inspire an attitude of active transportation amongst your students. This seminar offers tools to incorporate walking & cycling topics into the classroom. With increased awareness – and attention to safety and security issues – students can be empowered to incorporate regular physical exercise within their own commute.

Within a generation, families have increasingly chosen to drive their children to school. Slowly, a counter-trend is emerging to reverse this trend through a diverse array of walk/bike to school activities. This seminar will outline the fundamentals behind some of these strategies along with specific examples that can be adapted at your school.

Objectives: By the end of this 90-min seminar, participants will be able to;

identify at least three safety issues that need to precede walking & cycling promotion,
demonstrate three walk/bike activities that can be used in their classroom
describe at least two benefits of walking & cycling for each of; health & fitness, learning, environment, community, traffic safety & personal security
describe how personal travel choices & attitudes can be a source of inspiration and modelling for students,
identify curriculum connections for at least two walk/bike activities at their grade level, and
list at least three resources they can access for further information & extensions.