Activity 5:
List the steps you would take to build “ The Bike that is a Car”

Activity

Instructions on how to build “The Bike that is a Car”

Curriculum Expectation - Language

C1 Knowledge about Texts

C1.1 Using Foundational Knowledge and Skills to Comprehend Texts

D1 Developing Ideas and Organizing Content

D1.1 Purpose and Audience

Curriculum Expectation - Science

Strand A (STEM Skills and Connections)

A1.3 Use an engineering design process and associated skills to design, build, and test devices, models, structures, and/or systems
A1.5 Communicate their findings, using science and technology vocabulary and formats that are appropriate for specific audiences and purposes
A3.2 Investigate how science and technology can be used with other subject areas to address real-world problems

Possible Pre-Teaching Ideas

Review/teach complex machines (The machines which are a combination of two or more simple machines). Simple Machines- gears, levers, wheel and axle, screw.
List places where we find/use simple and complex machines.
Other places you might see procedural writing (recipe, directions, how to instructions).
Examine how procedural writing differs from other forms -formatting.
Look at the parts of a bicycle. Label diagrams, discuss what different parts do and why they are there.

Possible online resources for bicycles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjSmXCdZsKk -What are Simple Machines? by Design Squad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bicycle_parts -parts of a bicycle
https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/anatomy-of-a-bicycle/ -bicycle worksheet
https://school.eb.com/levels/elementary/article/bicycle/399363 -Britianica School P/J “Bicycle”
https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/bicycle/273207 -Britianica School J/I “Bicycle”
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bike-Riding-Word-Search-Puzzle-Worksheet-Game-Easel-Activity-6760709?st=97b5d8e23432c4d39bfcc8b7bc402cd0 -Bicycle word search

Possible online templates for procedural writing

Brief Explanation of Activity

This activity can be as simple or complex as you like as there are many factors here, (procedural writing, creativity, understanding parts of a bicycle, simple machines). Please feel free to go into as much detail as you see fit for your students.

It is suggested that this activity be done in a whole class, groups or pairs. It may be too daunting for a student to complete individually. This activity should be done after the students have a drawing for what “The Bike that is a Car” looks like. (Activity 4) so they have a sense of how their end product will look.

Using procedural writing, students will explain how to build their “Bike that is a Car”. Depending on your class depends on the number of steps written. Ideally students will use transitional words to link their steps/ideas together forming a coherent piece of writing.

Success Criteria/Assessment

Maybe do this task during a week where students can bike to school to help raise awareness for all the benefits biking has. Aliyah biked most days to school- even in the snowy Toronto winter.

(Click the top-right corner of the spreadsheet below to open in Google Sheets and copy or print.)

BITAC - Success Criteria / Assessment

Activity 5: List the steps you would take to build “ The Bike that is a Car”