The Bike Tour section of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration web site features the Crash Dummies, has five stations on helmets, city biking, equipment checkpoint, bicycle clothing, and bicycle riding safety. Also go here for a 24 page comic book featuring Sprocket Man. Sprocket Man demonstrates safe bicycle riding and the importance of a helmet. The Brain Injury Association, Inc. has a word search puzzle about all types of helmets. The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute has a bicycle helmet quiz developed by a 5th-6th grade science teacher.
Students can use the website to find the answers to the quiz.
In addition to the information for kids, this site has lots of information on bicycle helmets, and helmets of all kinds. This site, run by the non-profit Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, also has many links to other bicycle and helmet websites. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site has interesting factsheets on sports safety topics such as bicycle safety, in-line skating, and playground safety. The City of Chicago has an informative on-line safety booklet Kids on Bikes in Chicago with lots of illustrations of safe bicycle riding tips. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a series of bicycle safety factsheets.