Cycling is a key way to travel sustainably while keeping active and fit. However, it’s essential that children understand how to be safe as a cyclist, including the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet.

In this lesson, students investigate how bike helmets protect a cyclist’s head in a crash through energy transfer and transformation.

This lesson links directly with the Bike Ed program resources available for Years 7 - 8 Health and PE

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/safety-and-road-rules/road-safety-education/primary-schools/bike-ed-program

This activity supports:

Science Understanding

• Physical sciences
  • Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat, light, chemical energy and potential energy; devices can change energy from one form to another (VCSSU104)

Science Inquiry Skills

• Planning and conducting
  • Collaboratively and individually plan and conduct a range of investigation types, including fieldwork and experiments, ensuring safety and ethical guidelines are followed (VCSIS108)
• Analysing and evaluating
  • Use scientific knowledge and findings from investigations to identify relationships, evaluate claims and draw conclusions (VCSIS111)

Download the lesson plan in the link above.