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how to bring bicycle and pedestrian
education to your community, contact
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Welcome to WABA's Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program!

The Maryland Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education Program is divided into two sections, a pedestrian safety program for kindergarten through second grade students and a bicycle safety program for third through fifth grade students. Both the pedestrian section and the bicycle section contain a set of four core lessons, which teach skills that are essential to developing a basic understanding of pedestrian and bicycle safety. If the teachers have time, there are enrichment exercises offering additional pedestrian and bicycle safety knowledge and skills. The pedestrian lessons are designed to be taught indoors or outdoors by classroom teachers through the Health Education Curriculum, in physical education class, or in another community setting. Many of the bicycle program lessons are intended to be taught outdoors by physical education teachers through the Physical Education Curriculum or at community workshops, though some can be done in the classroom. In a few schools where indoor facilities are scarce and weather inclement, we've held the on-bike lessons in the hallway! There are few rules here- with the permission of the school principal, let your creativity and determination to make kids safer bikers and walkers take you where it will!

Handbook

Pedestrian Program	Bicycle Program
Core Lessons	Core Lessons
1. Crossing Safely	1. Always Wear Your Helmet
2. Bus Safety	2. Preparing to Ride Safely
3. Crossing the Intersection	3. Learning About Traffic Laws and Hazards
4. Perils of the Parking Lot	4. Bike Skills I
Enrichment Exercises	Enrichment Exercises
5. Traffic in Tinytown	5. Bicycling Near Home and Around the World
6. Neighborhood Walkabout	6. Bicycle Field Trip
7. Special Speaker

These Lessons are described in detail in the Lesson Handbook.

Maryland Learner Outcomes

Extensive research has been done to ensure that the program supports educational goals set by the Maryland Department of Education. The objectives of the program lessons are built on the Maryland Learner Outcomes (MLOs). Though the lessons in the Lesson Handbook cover many additional Maryland Learner Outcomes, these are the outcomes that are most directly related to the program. Consult a copy of the Maryland Learner Outcomes for additional applicable outcomes.

Key Maryland Learner Outcomes

A few of the key Maryland Learner Outcomes that are incorporated into this program include:

• Health, Safety and Injury Prevention (K-3): There are behaviors, such as taking precautions and following rules, that are basic to safe daily living.
• Health, Health Behaviors (K-3): Demonstrate skills to improve or maintain personal health.
• Social Studies, Geography (PreK-3): Explain why some locations are better than others for specific human activities.
• Writing, Writing to Inform (PreK-3): Students will demonstrate their ability to write to inform by developing and organizing facts to convey information.
• Health, Safety and Injury Prevention (4-5): There are ways to eliminate or modify specific hazardous situations.
• Health, Goal Setting and Decision Making (4-5): Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self and others.
• Social Studies, Geography (4-5): Construct and interpret maps using map elements.

Because this is a safety education program, most of the lesson objectives have to do with the Maryland Learner Outcomes related to health. However, the lesson activities also incorporate skits, writing assignments, songs, mapping activities, discussions of economic concepts, and mathematical calculations. This variety of activities makes it easy for teachers to integrate the Maryland Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education Program into the overall curriculum.