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Bikes!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Over Land

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Objectives

Early Learning Goals

  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. Talk about the features of the immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes
  • Show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. Handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

Lesson Planning

Explore bicycles, the forces causing movement, the constituent parts of a bike and how it all fits together.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To investigate bicycles: which forces cause movement
  • To learn the constituent parts of a bike and their role in making bike work
  • How does it all fit together?

Children will:

  • Identify and name different parts of a bike.
  • Investigate how a bike moves and offer explanations.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Labels: ‘wheel, tyre, spokes, frame, handlebars, brakes, pedal, gears, chain’ and Blu Tack to fasten to bike and/or diagram
  • Borrowed scooter, bikes, go-karts if required
  • Road signs and road crossing
  • Police officer/traffic warden role play outfits
  • Chalk
  • Clip boards and paper, pencils
  • Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake

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