Health Quest: Walking and Biking to School

Learning Task2

Safety

Background

This Learning Task will introduce you to the safety of walking and bicycling.  From this assignment you will be able to explain the safety of walking and biking to school in the US, Vermont, and your community, but also to the barriers of safely walking and biking to your school.  By using the SRTS website and other online resources, you will gain experience in researching and interpreting data.   You will then organize your research and present to the class.

Class Colloquium Form: Safety Research Task

Research Task

Using the provided web resources study the safety of walking and biking to school.  Collect information to answer one of the following questions (or a question from Learning Task 2)

2A. How safe is walking and biking to school in the US?

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811172.pdf
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/mediacenter/229925/231497

2B. How safe is walking and biking to school in Vermont and in my community?
-Follow instructions below to obtain information from the NHTSA website.

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/STSI/50_VT/2008/50_VT_2008.htm

Scroll down to Fatalities by Person Type

http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/tracking/datatools/index.cfm?CFID=809550&CFTOCKEN=33384401

http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/ask_a_question/answer.cfm?id=120

http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/ask_a_question/answer.cfm?id=123
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/mediacenter/229925/231317

http://www.healthandlearning.org/bikesmart.html

Class Colloquium

You and your group will be expected to present your finndings to the rest of the class. Use the provided Class Colloquium Form to take notes on each presentation. Write a brief summary of the overall findings of the combined class work presented at this colloquium.