This hands-on approach offers opportunities for kinesthetic learners to approach content through their dominant form of intelligence. Visual learners are surrounded by drawings and the objects they are studying. In addition, the project builds on interpersonal intelligence by providing many opportunities for collaboration and cooperation. The word-processing and desktop publishing are completed in the computer lab. The program could easily work with smaller groups and could be adapted for fifth through twelfth grades.
Students do the reading and writing components in their Humanities class.
Each classroom has two computers, used for Internet research, and most of the word processing and lay-out will be done in the computer lab, which has one computer for every child. For the bike work, students and teachers bring in discarded bikes and bike parts that they find around the city. Students need classroom and library books on ancient civilizations, machines, and bicycles as well as access to the Internet for researching laws that affect bicyclists, local bike organizations, etc. We have prepared a list of useful local organizations, web sites, books, and videos. For the publication of the bike manual, students use the school s computer lab with 33 computers.