Bike-ology Course Details
Bike-ology is a classroom program for students in Grades 4 through 6 to engage in activities, discussions, and experiments that help them discover how inventors developed the bicycle. Through these explorations, your students will learn the important societal changes the bicycle helped bring about over the past 150 years.
The program is a 45 minute in classroom guided instruction by a volunteer from the DandyHorse Bicycle Society. Authentic bicycles are used during the discussion and are available for the students to interact with. Worksheets are provided for the students to guide and reinforce the topics presented. A projector and screen are utilized to show images.
Topics covered in the lesson are:
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How the bicycle came to be during a climate emergency.
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How inventors improved the bicycle by focusing on the three key areas of Speed, Comfort and Safety at different times and in different ways.
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How the freedom of transportation impacted societal norms and made the bicycle a democratizing machine.
The program is cross-curricular, introducing elements from various curriculum divisions; Mathematics, Social Studies, Geography, Language Arts, and Science and Technology.
British Columbia Science Curriculum
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Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically
Grade 5
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Properties of simple machines and their force effects.
Grades 5 to 6
British Columbia Mathematics Curriculum
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Identify questions to answer or problems to solve through scientific inquiry
Grades 4 to 6
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Connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests
Grade 5
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Ratios
Grades 5 and 6
British Columbia Social Studies Curriculum
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Use Reasoning and Logic to explore, analyze and apply
mathematical ideas
Grade 4 to 6:
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The development and evolution of Canadian identity over time.
British Columbia Language Arts Curriculum
Grades 4 to 6
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Oral Communication