Kids II is a nationally recognized curriculum created by the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) and taught by our League Certified Instructors (LCIs).

This 7-hour class for 5th and 6th graders covers the same topics as Road I, including on-bike skills as well as choosing safe routes for riding.

While we can be flexible, Bike Ed Kids II is normally constructed as ten (10) lessons each lasting approximately 45 minutes.  Actual instruction time with the children is approximately 30 minutes per lesson.

Length: 7 hours

Course objectives:

Lesson 1: Bicycle Sizing and Equiptment Check

• Understand the importance of wearing a helmet.
• Demonstrate proper helmet fit -- under the chin, around the ears, and across the forehead.
• Identify a properly sized bicycle and describe problems associated with an improperly sized bicycle.
• Discuss the importance of maintaining a safe bicycle.
• Identify bicycle serial number and the importance of registering their bicycle.
• Conduct a basic bicycle safety check.

Lesson 2: Basic Skills Check

• Demonstrate the following basic bicycle handling skills: mounting the bicycle, starting and stopping while maintaining control, balancing with control, and steering in a straight line.
• Discuss the rationale for riding on the right side of the roadway -- with traffic.

Lesson 3: Scanning and Signaling

• Demonstrate competency in scanning the rear.
• Identify objects to the rear while scanning.
• Make successful turns while correctly signaling and scanning.
• Demonstrate the appropriate hand signals for stopping and turning.
• Demonstrate the procedure for entering traffic and safe driveway exit.

Lesson 4: Rules of the Road

• Choose the correct travel path on a street -- ride with the flow of traffic and safely pass parked cars.
• Demonstrate the ability to properly approach an intersection with a stop sign or traffic signal and yield to traffic.
• Control the bicycle speed as the intersection is approached and stop at the proper location.
• Move forward, if necessary, until in a position to see and be seen by oncoming traffic.
• Look left-right-left for "no traffic" before entering an intersection.

Lesson 5: Roadway Positioning

• Demonstrate the ability to properly exit a driveway in either direction and yield to cross traffic by looking lef-right-left before crossin the sidewalk and entering the street.
• Demonstrate proper scanning and signaling while maintaining control of a bicycle while changing positioning in a lane of travel.
• Ride for at least fifty feet in a two-foot lane without swerving outside the lines -- with both hands on the handlebars, with either hand removed.
• Ride for at least fifty feet in a two-foot lane -- scan to the left and right behind without swerving outside the lines.
• Ride for at least fifty feet in a two-foot lane scan to the left, signal and move to the appropriate position in the lane to execute a left turn without swerving outside the lines.

Lesson 6: Roadway Positioning for Turning

• Demostrate the ability to properly position their bicycle to the right of the center of the travel lane to continue straight through or in the right third of the travel lane to make a right turn.
• Demonstrate ability to position their bicycles at an intersection and yield to traffic for a left turn.
• Implement proper scanning, signaling and communication while controlling their bicycle.

Lesson 7: Hazards and Emergency Stopping

• Describe the three types of road hazards -- visual, surface, and collision.
• Demonstrate competency in executing an emergency stop.
• Discuss the reasons/situations where an emergency stop should be executed.

Lesson 8: Hazards and Avoidance Maneuvering

• Describe various types of surface hazards to bicyclists.
• Demonstrate competency in executing a rock dodge maneuver.
• Demonstrate competency in addressing railroad tracks, storm grates, pavement cracks correctly with appropriate scanning, signaling/communication with other road users and conducting any lane positioning corrections that may be required to cross these hazards safely.

Lesson 9: Riding Safe -- Choosing Where to Ride

• List criteria for the selection of an effective and safe route of travel.
• Differentiate between lightly and heavily trafficked streets.
• Understand the hazards associated with different types of streets.
• Identify high-risk situations and behaviors.
• Wearing or carrying things that can get caught in the moving parts of a bicycle -- shoelaces, pant legs, bags dangling from the handlebar, etc.
• Carrying other people or things on a bike.
• Riding with one hand on the handlebar.
• Riding into the path of other road users: entering the stream of traffic without looking, swerving left without scanning or signaling.
• Riding against traffic
• Disregarding traffic signs and signals.
• Shrubbery at the end of a driveway.
• Parked cars.
• Riding after dark.

Lesson 10: Riding Evaluation

• Demonstrate riding proficiency in traffic under supervised conditions in the neighborhood.
• Demonstrate riding proficiency in performing emergency maneuvers of quick stop and rock dodge.

Topics:

• Rules of the Road
• Bike Fit
• Helmet Fit
• Scanning
• Rock Dodge
• Mounting
• Starting and Stopping
• Dismounting
• Steering Straight
• Scanning
• Quick Stop
• Roadway Positioning
• Route Choice
• Starting and Stopping
• Bike Check