Resources
Back-to-School Safety Flyer
Important safety reminders for driving in school zones & picking up and dropping off children.
E-Bikes & E-Scooters: What Parents Should Know
If you’re trying to determine if your child is ready to ride an e-bike or e-scooter, download our useful guide. It can help you figure out if your child has sufficient experience and strong enough handling skills for one of these vehicles. It also covers the legal age for riding each vehicle, if helmets are required, and if a driver’s license is required to operate.
Street Smarts Activity Book
Learn about safety with a fun activity booklet. Activity booklets are provided through the K-5 safety assembly program, at no cost to schools.
Learn to Ride: Start Pedal-Free
A great way to teach children to ride a bike is to start with a pushbike or a traditional bike with the pedals removed. That way they can learn to balance and steer before needing to pedal. We’ve created a simple step-by-step guide.
Helmet Safety
California state law requires children under 18 years of age to wear a helmet while riding bikes, scooters, skateboards, and roller skates.
Bike Buses
Learn about bike buses, also known as bike trains, and how they can provide an active, social, and fun way to travel to school in an organized group.
Protect Your Climate Curriculum
Protect Your Climate Curriculum is a comprehensive climate change curriculum from the Bay Area Air District, with 16 lessons for 4th and 5th grade students. Focus is air pollution, energy, waste reduction, and transportation.
Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum
Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum (from the NHTSA) include lesson plans on Pedestrian Safety Training (for 1st and 2nd graders), Bicycle Safety Training (for 3rd through 5th graders), and ideas for incorporating Safe Routes concepts into math and social science, geography, English, history, and science classes.
Lesson Plan for Bike/Walk to School
One-day lesson plan for a class discussion: “Be the change, bike and walk to school”
Create a Weekly Walk N Roll Program
Walk N Roll is a parent-led program that encourages and rewards students to walk, bike or roll to school on a specific day every week. The program uses barcodes to track students’ mileage, number of trips, and emissions saved; and students collect “Trip Charms” throughout the school year. Hundreds of students bike or walk every week, resulting in less school-zone traffic, reduced truancy, and increased physical activity and community-building.
Melon Drop Video
Why is it so important to wear a helmet while biking, skateboarding, or riding a scooter? We used a melon to demonstrate how much protection a helmet provides.
Walk & Roll Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt
Can you find them all? Explore your neighborhood by foot or bike. Check off as many items as you can. Look up, down, and all around!
Reading Lists
If your kids are looking for a new book or two, we’ve got two reading lists that might help: Books that Celebrate the Many Ways We Go to School and Children’s Books that Promote Walking, Biking, and Safety – which indicates the reading level for each book.
Safety Demonstration Videos
Flatland BXM star Pete Brandt delivers safety tips while demonstrating stunts & tricks in three videos recorded exclusively for Street Smarts Diablo.
A Conversation for Parents & Students
An interview template for discussing walk-bike safety at home.
Walking School Bus
A step-by-step guide from the Safe Routes National Partnership on starting a Walking School Bus at your school.
Carpooling Tips
Buckle up and get ready to carpool to school with your neighbors and friends.