Scooter License: 20+ Station Cards for PE & Children's Gymnastics

With the station cards for the scooter license, children learn how to use a scooter safely in the sports hall and take their own driving test at the end. On a course with stations such as a highway, roundabout, and car wash, they can drive through tunnels and pull themselves along a rope. In addition, there is a bumpy track and exercises in which the children push or pull each other through the hall. The material is intended for primary school, but many of the stations are also suitable for secondary school.

What is included in the material

• Station cards with individual exercises as well as partner and group exercises, each with the required equipment, task, and illustrated setup
• Implementation guidance with scooter rules, guidance on setting up the course, running the stations, and a possible series of lessons
• Setup plans for a scooter course, a race track, and a scooter relay race
• Assessment sheet to document which driving tasks each child has already mastered
• Licenses in card format and a certificate listing the driving tasks passed
• Road signs to mark the stations
• Cards for a possible lesson unit with the topics of the individual lessons
• Picture cards for the scooter rules with the rules and riding positions

Tips for using the material

• Rules first: The scooter rules can be worked out together with the class and reviewed at the beginning of each lesson. A scooter parking area, for example against a wall, where the scooters lie upside down when not in use, is a good addition.
• Safe riding positions: It is worth discussing the riding positions as well, because you only ride on your knees, sitting down, or lying down, and never standing up.
• Setting up the course: Depending on the size of the hall, a selection of stations can be put together to form a course. Small groups can set up the stations themselves according to the cards if the card is placed in the right spot in the hall beforehand; afterwards, all stations are checked again for safety.
• Signs and zebra crossings: The road signs can stand on a slalom pole in front of the stations. Optionally, zebra crossings can be incorporated, where the children stop if someone wants to cross the road.
• Open station operation: The children can freely decide when to do which station. It is useful to specify how many times each station should be completed.
• Closed station operation: Alternatively, each station can be used for a fixed amount of time before the children move on to the next one.
• As a series of lessons: Over several lessons, the license can be built up step by step: from the rules, accelerating, and braking to corners, tunnels, gliding, and turning, and finally practicing and taking the test.
• With a wheelchair: Most of the stations are also suitable for children who use a wheelchair.

The following skills are promoted

• Safe use of the scooter through rules, safe riding positions, and the final test
• Riding technique when accelerating, braking, driving around corners, and turning while riding
• Coordination and balance when steering precisely, for example when driving over a rope, parking between boxes, or on the bumpy track
• Awareness when driving at night with eyes closed
• Cooperation when pushing and pulling in the partner and group exercises

Organizational guidance

The stations use common equipment that is available in many sports halls, such as cones, gym benches, boxes, mats, and jump ropes. Before the lesson, it is recommended to check whether the equipment and, above all, the scooters are fully functional.

To complement this, there are games with scooters for after the license, the license course with ride-on cars, and station cards for riding a scooter in the sports hall.