F: Teacher Seminar - Walk/Bike Topics for the Classroom

...to help establish, or strengthen, school-wide initiatives promoting walking and cycling

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 1.5-3hr session, 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.

Student Leader, age 16

Off Ramp would never be successful if it hadn’t been for Arthur Orsini. Arthur was able to guide us throughout the year, and to provide us with a different view about the world ...and that saving the environment is a social responsibility (making it) fun and interesting. Since Off Ramp became active, our number of people driving to school decreased by almost 70%, and staff and students work hard together to maintain (this). Arthur Orsini was an outstanding mentor for our group.