Minnesota’s Bike to Anywhere Day is your chance to support students’ emotional and physical health, while promoting the positive, lifelong skill of walking and bicycling the neighborhood safely. Maybe students are attending school in-person and can ride there. Maybe students are still learning from home and need a break from the screen. Either way, inserting a little physical activity into their day with a brisk bike ride or whimsical walk can energize students, putting them in a mood to learn.
Register for Bike to Anywhere today!
Register for Bike to Anywhere Day to get in the loop. We’ll email you ideas, templates, and ways to engage with your students.
A couple of quick ideas to get you started:
To our school heroes teaching P.E. and other subjects — Add these activities and resources to your distance learning curriculum! It’s all about finding the balance between screen time and physical activity. For example, assign time for students to learn traffic safety by exploring their neighborhoods by bike or foot. Use the mileage tracker, bike bingo card, crossword, word search, poster coloring contest, or Walk! Bike! Fun! distance learning materials for your health and physical education classes to promote this lifelong activity.
To our parents – Get your kids outside and use the mileage tracker, bike bingo card or scavenger hunt to keep them focused and motivated. And when those pesky ‘April showers’ keep you inside, consider the word search, crossword or statewide poster contest.
Here are other great ideas for walking and bicycling in your community:
Bike to Anywhere Day Poster Contest
- Whether students are learning from home or in the classroom, engage them in this art project that gets them thinking about bicyclingwhy to ride. We’ve even got the lesson plans online (K-3) and (4-8) for your use!
- K-12 students are invited to design a poster (8.5 x 11” paper is fine!) showing how riding a bicycle makes them feel. Learn more by reading our Poster Contest Guidelines.
- Scan or take a photo of the poster and submit it to saferoutes.dot@state.mn.us by May 19, 2021.
Demonstration Project application open through April 15
Demonstration Projects illustrate the benefits of designing spaces for the safety of all users at a fraction of the time and cost of a traditional infrastructure project. These are short-term, low-cost, temporary roadway projects used to pilot long-term design solutions. It may just be a great next step for your community’s work on creating safe and convenient places for students to walk and bike.
The application process closes April 15, 2021 – act now! Selected communities receive technical assistance and support to plan, design and implement a SRTS demonstration project. (This includes drawings, specifications, permits and materials required to implement these projects.)
Review application requirements and apply before April 15!
Get wowed with the new Walk!Bike!Fun! training
The updated WBF Educator training is now available through a Three-Part series.
- Part One is an online, self-paced training and contains lessons about Safe Routes to School, Equity and Justice, overview of the curriculum and a deep dive into rules of the road. There are videos, quizzes, discussion questions and time for reflection. Estimated time: 2-3 hours
- Part Two of the Walk! Bike! Fun! curriculum training is a live Zoom session with WBF Instructors Michelle and CJ to review curriculum content, discuss concepts learned and prepare for Part Three. Estimated time: 60-90 minutes
- Part Three will be in-person, on-bike training for educators to teach and practice activities from the curriculum that students will experience. Estimated time: 3-4 hours
Register here for Part One of the new WBF Educator Training!
Mobility Justice explained in 3 minutes
The 2020 MnSRTS Strategic Plan sets a course for a more equitable future. This three-minute video on mobility justice is clear, concise and conveys why this is critical to walking and bicycling in Minnesota (and beyond).
More about MnSRTS
MnDOT invites and encourages participation by all. If you need an ASL, a foreign language interpreter, or other reasonable accommodation, or need documents in an alternative format (such as braille or large print), please email your request to Janet Miller at ADArequest.dot@state.mn.us or call 651-366-4720.
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