Lesson Plan: Design a Cargo
Bike and Change Your
Community
Mimi Collins
English as a Second Language
Culbreth Middle School
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
What do they already know?
• Photos from Copenhagen
• “Underground” businesses in
refugee camps
• Paletas sellers in apartment
complexes
What do I want them to
learn?
• Research bikes/businesses
• Describe drawings
• Explain in writing and orally
• Compare/contrast Denmark
and here
• Compare/contrast bikes
What will they do?
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Plan a business
Design and draw a bike/trailer
Make a model
Write and explain
Compare and contrast DK/CH
infrastructure
• Discuss how to change our community
What lessons will they take
away?
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Bikes are really useful
I can create my own business
Denmark has a bicycling culture
I can change my community so it
has a better bicycling culture
• I am getting better at English!