Bicycle Helmet Materials for
Teachers and Future Teachers
Summary: We are very pleased to provide our materials to teachers and teaching students. Some of the pages below are also available on paper if you prefer that format.
We're glad you came!
We are glad to provide the pages listed below and our printed materials to teachers and teaching students. We are also happy to send our materials to police officers, fire fighters, health departments, clinics, hospitals, scout leaders, concerned parents and others who teach bicycle safety in their community.
If you are working on a helmet safety program or assembling a resource folder of materials for future classroom use, please send us an email with your postal mailing address and we will send you a free packet of materials that we call our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs. It comes with a CD that has a complete copy of our Web site.
We will acknowledge your email and tell you when the Toolkit is going out, normally within a day. We don't use your email address for anything except that reply, but if you would rather not use it at all, just pick up a dull pencil and drop us a postcard or note with your mailing address to:
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
4611 7th Street South
Arlington, VA 22204-1419
If you would rather not send a mailing address, then just fire up your printer and print out the materials below or download the files. Everything we have in our Toolkit is on the Web site. Everything. It's just not on paper. If you can't wait for snail mail, here is the entire file we print out to send to you in .pdf format, and here it is a Word format version if your system will accept Word files. Add the pamphlet files below and you have it all! If your system will not download the Word file, email us and we will send it to you attached to a return email.
The Toolkit has many but not all of the materials listed below in paper format, along with duplicating masters of our pamphlets. You are free to duplicate any of the materials in the Toolkit or on our Web pages for school or other nonprofit use provided that the material may not be sold or incorporated into material that is for sale and may not be used in presentations for which a charge is made to the participant.
We do not charge for our materials, and do not send you anything suggesting a donation to make you feel guilty, either. We find that asking people for money complicates things and reduces our outreach.
The list below is from our Toolkit page, edited down to the materials that are probably most interesting to teachers:
Other Sites
- The WABA Bike Safety Site has an extensive set of manuals and instructions for teaching on-street bicycle safety courses and rodeos, including a lesson handbook, teacher's guide, sample letters and waivers, forms, evaluation techniques and more. Good stuff!
- The California Department of Health Services has a very useful site up with many materials for school-based helmet promotion campaigns. They have lesson plans (link below) and a Spanish-language pamphlet and other materials. Worth a look!
- Healthcom Interactive has a free teacher's resource guide in .pdf format that includes six activities, among them an egg drop, a scanning lesson, stop and search left/right/left, hand signals and a rap-style helmet song for grades 2 and 3. The free resource guide ties into their Bike Smart CD, a $20 purchase.
- How Not to Get Hit by Cars is a useful way to approach bicycle safety, emphasizing that "wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car."
Would you like our email newsletter?
We produce a periodic newsletter on helmet developments and send it around by email. We send one when there is news to report, not every week or month. It's free, of course. If you would like us to add you to the newsletter list, please send us an email.
Are we missing anything?
We are an advocacy organization with a long-range perspective, so teachers and community educators are our favorite visitors and we will do anything we can to help you find what you need. If you see something missing that would be useful for your classroom or demonstration, please send us an email. We may or may not be able to add it to our site, but we certainly want to try! If you find helmet materials elsewhere that are not on our list, please let us know about that as well so we can add a link. Other teachers led us to some of the items above in just that way.
This page was last revised on: January 6, 2008.
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