MINIPAGE ACTIVITIES MEET MANY STATE AND NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS. THIS WEEK'S STANDARDS: STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THAT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENJOYMENT, CHALLENGE, SELF-

MiniPage activities meet many state and national educational standards. This week's standards: Students understand that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction. Students apply movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills. (Physical Education)
Activities:
1. Bicycle helmets must be designed to meet safety rules, but they can be painted or decorated any way you like. Draw a large bicycle helmet on a piece of paper. Now color or decorate your helmet just the way you want it.
2. Collect pictures and words about bicycles and cycling equipment from newspaper ads and photos. Use your pictures and words, plus colored markers or paints, to create a bicycling collage.
3. Find newspaper ads for local businesses or special events. Identify three locations you might be able to travel to on a bicycle. Now identify three locations that you would not use a bicycle to travel to. Explain why it would not be a good idea to bicycle to those locations.
4. Which of the bicycle safety rules in today's MiniPage are about (a) being courteous to drivers and bicycle riders who share the road with you, (b) what you have to do to get ready to ride your bicycle, and (c) what you have to do when you ride your bicycle under special weather or road conditions.
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about bicycles. Use these questions to guide your research: When was the first bicycle invented? What did the first bicycles look like? When did cycling become a competitive sport? How have bicycles changed over the years? What is unusual or special about bicycles today?