Are students in your school learning about bicycle safety – from both bicyclist and motorist perspectives? Are they learning the details of relevant state laws and how to avoid common car-bicycle crashes? Too many people learn only superficial knowledge of these topics.

Ride Illinois, your statewide bicycle advocacy organization, working with IDOT to improve safety of cyclists and motorists on the road, has an easy way to help.

Thanks to IDOT’s Injury Prevention funding, we are reimbursing Illinois schools $2 per student, for staff time to assign and use our free, online BikeSafetyQuiz (BSQ) lessons as 20-30 minute online assignments. (The quiz stands alone as a lesson. There is no accompanying material for the teacher to present, so this could be a remote learning assignment.) Over 150,000 Illinois students and others have used the interactive, quiz-based BSQ resource to close an education gap and to make our roads safer.

This year’s grant, which runs from October 2021 to September 2022, is available for three different BSQ lessons and student audiences:

• Child Bicyclist Quiz for elementary schools – 4th and 5th grades, or younger with adult help. See a sample Child Bicyclist quiz.
• Adult Bicyclist Quiz for high school Physical Education or Health students. See a sample Adult Bicyclist quiz.
• Motorist/Driver Education Quiz for high school Driver Education students. See a sample Motorist/Driver Education quiz.