Detailed description (English): 1. Bike-riding skills
We will prepare a competition focusing on bike-riding skills for the primary schol students. The main goal of the competition will be to pass the given route on a bike or a scooter as fast as possible. The second part of the contest will be an obstacle race focused on speed and exact coordination of movement. We will also test the knowledge of the students about the traffic signs and traffic rules. To conlude, there will be a simulation of the traffic situations. The winners will be rewarded.
2. A day without cars
The lower secondary students will prepare the posters and leaflets for the public. They will stop the cars by the post office and explain the drivers and othe citizens the meaning of the reduction of the car use. The will promote alternative modes of trasport to work and school.
3. The measurement of the traffic intensity
The lower secondary students will carry out an hour measurement of the traffic intensity in three places in the villages. They will record the number of the cars, lorries, bikers and motorbikers, and buses between 7am-8am and 2pm-3pm.
4. Travel ecologically
The goal of this activity is to invite students to come to school by bike, rollerskates or scooters. In the morning, we will count the students who will participate in this activity and they will be rewarded with a coupon. The coupon could be exchanged for the bad marks or forgotten homeworks. The students who will arrive to school by bus or by car, but they will come by foot or scooters or skateboards from the post office, will get the coupon as well and they will be able to exchange it for the forgotten homework.
5. Traffic light competition
The lower secondary students will show their riding skills on scooters, roller-skates and bikes in the competiton „Traffic lights“. There wil be stations on the route where the students will answer the questions about the following the traffic rules, the compulsory equipment of the biker and the first aid. As a part of the prevention, the students will be able to try impact simulator, walking with the goggles simulating alcohol level in the blood and breath test.
Target group(s): Students from 6 up to 15 years of age, their parents and friends of the school
Objectives: The activities of the European mobility week at our school will support the usage of the multimodal environmental transport amongst our students and their parents (bikes, public transport, scooters)
Expected Outcomes: Students will use bikes and scooters to get to school, they will think environmentally and protect the nature, to clean the air around our school.
Partner: The municipality of Rakovec nad Ondavou, Moravany.
Slovakia