Publication details
Jízdní kolo nejen jako dopravní prostředek
| Title in English | The bicycle not only as a means of transport |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Cycling is common free time activity. As far as the health is concerned, cycling is often recommended for obese people so that they have a physical activity and save their joints at the same time. When we look at the bicycle from the technical point of view we can see many technical resolutions. All of them use main regularities of physics so the bike is a suitable teaching aid for schooling at primary schools. The technics of riding, pedalling, weight distribution is important too. So we can use the bicycle as the connecting link when making cross-curriculum relations among physics, technical education, informatics, physical training, health education and other subjects. During the project pupils work with basic parameters of their own bicycle and parameters of their body. They processed the gained information through the use of a spreadsheet processor or PHP. The graphs “Gearing on the bicycle, a velocity of a cyclist on the plane surface”, “The dependence of velocity on a frequency of pedalling”, “The dependence of velocity on gear ration” were the outputs of their work. Within the scope of the project the inquiry with pupils who attend sixth to eighth grade of primary school on the theme Work with the gravity centre of cyclist on the bicycle was realized. |