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Name of Activity: Scooterville

Purpose of Activity: To work on fitness development, safe driving on the scooter, and following the "rules of the road."

Prerequisites: Prior to "Scooterville, " students will have completed the following:

** Learned a variety of safe ways to move on a scooter.
** Taken a scooter drivers test that requires them to demonstrate safe driving on their scooters, as well as following the "rules of the road."
** Designed their own license plate for their car. (They will receive an official "scooter license" the day of the event.)

Suggested Grade Level: 1-2

Materials Needed: The following props will be needed: several laminated directional arrows to indicate one way streets; several laminated stop signs for intersections; floor tape to map out both cross-walks and railroad tracks; 2 tunnels; 2 large standing mats to create an alley for the scooterville carwash; several buildings made out of cardboard boxes that are covered with colored paper and decorated with windows; a hotdog stand made out of stacking crates and a plank board; 12 small cones for construction zones; a large blue lake made out of colored butcher paper; a bridge (low balance beam); several strings of white or colored lights to decorate the "city" of Scooterville; laminated signs to label different areas of the city, ie. school zone, hot dog stand, carwash, railroad station, construction zone, shopping district, one way street, broken bridge, etc.

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