W.A.L.T (We Are Learning To)

1. W.A.L.T (We Are Learning To) Develop an understanding of the reasons why exercise is good for us Understand the benefits of reducing the use of cars and buses Appreciate the benefits of cycling and find out about safe cycle routes Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

2. W.I.L.F (What I am Looking For) Pay attention to the introductory PowerPoint Participate in the pair / share exercise Work collaboratively in groups to produce information leaflets and a poster to encourage the use of cycling as a means of exercise and raise people’s awareness of the new cycle track between Oban and Fort William. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

3. Why is Exercise Important? Exercise keeps you fit and healthy and helps you to feel good. It's important to take exercise regularly, at least three times a week. For the exercise to be effective, you need to do it for long enough - at least twenty minutes - and hard enough - until you are breathing heavily. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

4. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise builds up your stamina or staying power - your ability to keep going without feeling out of breath. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

5. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise helps to keep your lungs in good condition. When you exercise you breathe more quickly and deeply, because you need more energy and use up more oxygen. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

6. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise builds up your strength by developing your muscles and keeping them in good working order. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

7. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise helps to make your heart work more efficiently. It improves your circulation because it increases the rate at which the blood flows round the body. Exercise helps to protect people against heart disease. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

8. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise develops your suppleness. If you are supple, you can bend and stretch your body easily, and you are less likely to injure yourself. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

9. Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise can help you to control your weight. It uses up the calories in food that might otherwise be stored as fat. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

10. Stress? …what’s stress?? Some good reasons for taking exercise Exercise helps you to relax. It is a good way of getting rid of tension, when you feel stressed. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

11. Are you getting enough exercise? Working in pairs, make up a diary for each day of a typical week. Remember to include walking / cycling to school. Monday hours/minutes of what activity? Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

12. Are you getting enough exercise?-Feedback to class Discuss how much exercise you have each done. Now set yourselves a ‘fitness target’, for example, ‘In four weeks’ time I shall be able to cycle for 5 miles’. Do not be too ambitious. Set yourself a target that you have a good chance of achieving. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

13. CUTTING DOWN OUR CAR USE • Read through the suggestions on the following slides of ways to get people to cut down on the use of their cars. • Discuss which of them do you think are most likely to be effective. • Can you suggest other measures that governments and councils could take to get people to use their cars less? Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

14. Make drivers pay The more it costs, the less people will drive. Hong Kong, for example, penalizes drivers who use the centre of the city. A computer-based system tracks car movements into the downtown core. Charges vary with time and location - it's cheaper to drive down a main street at 3.00am than during the rush hour. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

15. Make drivers pay A similar scheme has been introduced to discourage people from driving in Cambridge city centre. The amount you have to pay depends on how long you spend in the city centre - so if you take the risk of driving into the city and get stuck in a traffic jam, it can be costly. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

16. Make drivers pay Singapore penalizes the solitary driver. Drivers of cars carrying fewer than four people pay a monthly fee of 50 dollars if they enter the city during the morning rush hour. Since the system was introduced, downtown traffic speeds have increased by 20 per cent and accidents have fallen by 25 per cent. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

17. Improve public transport People often drive cars because public transport won't do the job. But if public transport is quick, convenient, reliable and affordable, people will use it. According to the National Federation of Bus Users, the main reason people give for not taking buses is their unreliability. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

18. Improve public transport Britain's railways compare unfavourably with railways in the rest of Europe. In France, for example, the rail network is twice as large as Britain's and the service is more extensive. Britain's investment in railways is a third of France's investment and a sixth of Germany's. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

19. Improve public transport In recent years, Britain has spent public money on roads, while other European countries have put large sums of public money into railways. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

20. Cut the car space In some towns and cities, streets have been closed to cars. In Florence, Italy, the centre of the city has been turned into a pedestrian mall from 7.30am to 6.30pm. York is another town where the centre has been largely pedestrianised. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

21. Cut the car space Another method is to cut down on the number of parking spaces available, or simply charge more for those that already exist. Certain cities have two-tier parking charges with cheaper rates for those who want to shop for a few hours-and crushing rates for those who drive to work and park for the day. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

22. Boost the bike Bicycles are enjoying a revival as more and more people cycle either to work or to the shops. Bicycles are efficient, cheap and quick-especially in car-clogged inner cities-and cycling helps to keep you fit. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

23. Boost the bike Europe has led the way in this revival; the Netherlands for example, has 14,OOOkm of bicycle paths. Cities in North America and Australia are following suit. So too are many British towns and cities. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

24. Boost the bike Linking bike use to public transport can reduce pollution and save energy. A study in Chicago found that the average bike-and-ride commuter could save around 9 litres of fuel a day. Bike-and-ride is so popular in Japan that train stations are jammed with bikes. In the city of Kasukabe, cranes are used to park as many as 1,500 bicycles in a 12-storey parking garage. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

25. Boost the bike Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

26. Boost the bike - Competition! The whole of S1 are going to compete for some amazing prizes. The 1st prize is a Day’s Gorge Walking with Stramash! Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

27. Boost the bike - Competition! There are many more other prizes to be won, but you need to be in it to win it! Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

28. Boost the bike - Competition!What do we need to do? Working in groups of 4, you will collect information on the Oban to Fort William cycle route. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

29. Boost the bike - Competition!What do we need to do? You will use this information to produce leaflets and a poster to encourage use of the cycle track. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

30. Boost the bike - Competition!What do we need to do? Some of the information will be provided, but you will be expected to collect some of your own - the more you use, the higher your chances of winning. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

31. Boost the bike - Competition!What do we need to do? Your tutor group will select the winning presentation. This group will then compete with the other tutor groups and the winners will take ALL members of the group on a day’s Gorge Walking Adventure with Stramash. Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson

32. Boost the bike - Competition!What do we need to do? Work begins next week & you’ll be provided with resources to create your stunning presentations. You’ll only have 2 periods of PSEd to complete this. If you have time left today, you should begin organising yourselves to delegate tasks and agree upon resource collection. Good Luck! Oban High School Personal, Social and Health Education Active Travel Lesson