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A Word from Your Editor:
I have to admit it. I'm not a huge Tour de France follower. I do, however, know that Lance Armstrong has won it quite a few times. But that's about it for my knowledge of the race.
I was an avid bicycler in my junior high and high school years. Before I got my license, it was my only available mode of transportation. It got me to WalMart and the park and my friends' homes. It even got me to places I should not have gone. I was even hit by a car one time. But I survived--no major damage. Through the years of marriage and children, I haven't ridden as much as I'd like to. I've taken a couple of rides with the kids, but again, not as many as I'd like.
I remember one bike ride, however, very clearly. One day I wanted to take the kids for a ride. My daughter was old enough to ride her bike by herself, but my oldest son wasn't quite ready yet. You see, I had three boys very close together in age. So I had the brilliant idea of loading the oldest two boys in the bike carrier (Burley-type hooks up behind the bike) and putting the youngest in the carrier that attaches behind the rider's seat. So basically, if you're visualizing this, I was pulling three boys behind the bike.
Well things went pretty smooth for a while. Going up the hills was hard, so I just got off and walked the bike. Going downhill was fun because I had all that weight behind me. One hill wasn't so fun. All I saw ahead was the bridge. The bridge that went zig-zaggy until it got to the road below. The bridge that was high off the ground before it went zig-zaggy to the road. The brakes were not working as fast as I would have liked. All I kept saying was, "The brakes are not stopping. The brakes are not stopping!" What exactly I thought my 6-year-old daughter was going to do for me I'm not sure. All I was thinking was, "I'm going to crash into the fence of the bridge. It's going to crack in two and we are all going to tumble about 20 feet to the ground below. We're all going to break bones, be all scratched up and bleeding, and it's not going to be pretty. And my daughter will freak out."
Well, sure enough, I crashed into that fence. It didn't break in two, thanks to the Good Lord's grace. The bike carrier did, however, dislodge itself from the back of the bike and crashed into the back wheel. I almost dropped the bike with the baby in the back carrier, but I caught it. The damage? A little scratch on my arm and some pretty alarmed boys. My point? I'm not sure. Don't do what I did? Maybe this is why I haven't been biking in a while.
I hope you enjoyed the story of my last bike ride. Now go follow some real bicyclists with Wendy Young!
Blessings!
Julie Nott, Editor
www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/Julie
www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/FreeStuffForHomeschoolers
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Tour de France FEVER By Wendy Young
Well, it's official -- Tour de France fever has hit our home with a vengeance. Instead of fighting it, I decided to join it. Here is a homegrown Tour de France unit study for all biking enthusiasts or just someone who wants to experience a little armchair travel to the gorgeous country of France.
Materials
We have decided to store our work from this unit in a lapbook. If you would like to do the same, you will need a variety of folders, glue, colored cardboard, and papers.
Preparation
• Print off the two maps from the above sites.
• Enlarge them on a photocopy machine.
• The third map is for you to follow the route as your children plot the course.
• Bookmark the URL to find them when you need them.
• Order or collect the books from the library.
• Show your children where France fits into the world map.
Day 1
• With your children, read through the History of the Tour on the last website listed above. 1
• Begin the biography of Lance Armstrong. Older children can read it on their own.
• Design the cover for your lapbook if you are doing that project.
• Plot on one of your enlarged maps the tour so far. This will depend on where you join the tour over the three weeks.
Day 2
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Today, using the timeline from Brownie Lock's site, create a timeline of the tour to date with the winners' names next
to the correct year. Can your children guess why there was no tour in the years 1915-1918 and 1940-1945?
• Make the timeline with a concertina fold to fit in your lapbook, or you could wrap it around your wall. Put in your children's
birthdates as well as those of other family members.
• If your children would like to include a few photos of multiple-tour winners, a few can be found here:
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/photo_galleries/2994692.stm and
www.bikeraceinfo.com/index.html
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map.
Day 3
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Today you and your children are going to explore the mechanics of the bike.
• Browse through and read those pages that interest them in Usborne Superskills: Racing Bikes.
• Print off the following label-me printouts for as many children as are participating in the unit. Help them to label the diagram.
Add it to your lapbook.
• www.enchantedlearning.com/language/english/label/bicycle/
• Do your children have their own bike? Time to give it a cleaning! Let them follow the instructions on page 40 & 41 of DK Outdoor Adventure Guide Biking.
• Take some photos of your children working. Add them to the lapbook.
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map.
Day 4
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map.
• Today your focus is on multiple winners of the tour.
• Create a bar graph using the information on Brownie Lock's webpage of the multiple
winners. (Don't have time? Use the grid I prepared below!) Remember to add this to
your lapbook.
Day 5
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map.
• Your focus today is the history of bicycles. Visit the Bicycle Museum of America online
and view a screen show of the timeline at www.bicyclemuseum.com.
• Then read with your children the following article:
www.footprintpress.com/Articles/historyBike.htm.
• You and your children may enjoy the following biography of the Wright brothers, whose
first income-producing interest was
bicycle manufacturing. Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation by Reynolds.
• Have older children write an essay. Younger children can narrate the bike's history. Little
ones can draw a picture of a bike for the lapbook.
Day 6
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map. |
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• Today your focus is nutrition. As with most things, there are always varying points of view. Visit the two sites below and read
their views. Talk this over with your children and then design a menu for the three days running up to your imagined race as
well as a menu for the day after.
• You may also want to create a food pyramid depicting a non-cyclist's diet and a comparison one for a cyclist. Add them to your
lapbooks or file.
• library.thinkquest.org/11569/html_home/html_safety/nutrition.html
• www.bicyclesource.com/body/nutrition/new-theories.shtml
Day 7
• Continue reading your Lance Armstrong biography.
• Continue to plot the race on your enlarged map.
• Today your focus is TEAMWORK.
• Here www.letour.fr/2006/TDF/LIVE/us/700/r1_equipes.html is a listing of all the teams and their jersey colors.
• Here is a rider's list: www.letour.fr/2006/TDF/RIDERS/us/partants.html
• Adopt one team as "your own" and follow their progression in the tour.
• Here is a touching article on one of the teammates of Lance Armstrong in the 2002 tour.
www.intracell.net/tour_de_france.htm
• Talk with your children about the way a team is set up in the tour, which is to make way for the winner. Team members will
sacrifice a wheel, their own times, or their bike for a teammate. How can this apply to the family as a team?
Day 8
• Wrap up your reading.
• Complete your lapbook.
• For the remaining days of the tour, continue to plot the route and the winners.
• When the tour finishes on July 23, be sure to catch the final on TV.
BAR GRAPH
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Footnotes:
1. At the time of writing of this unit, there were two errors and one omission on this site: a red jersey is no longer given to the last
cyclist. There are 10 teams with between 7 and 10 riders. The omission is that a GREEN jersey is given to the cyclist with the most
accumulated sprint points.
© For use in your own home.
Wendy Young has been married to Gavin, a cycling enthusiast, for almost 16 years. She is the homeschooling mom of four wonderful, unique children from 11 to 4 years of age. They have been homeschooled all their lives. Wendy has a heart for encouraging homeschooling parents, in particular moms. They live in Cape Town, South Africa.
Her webpage is www.homeschool-curriculum-for-life.com.
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