Way To Go! Activities
Want to earn points? Pick one (or more) of these activities to earn points and prizes for your school!
With greater flexibility, your school can choose to participate at any time throughout the school year. How much or how little your school participates is entirely up to you.
Click on any of the buttons below to learn more about each activity, or scroll down to read them all
To report your activities, go here: Report your Way to Go! Activities
Bring a Bicycling Presentation to your School
Bring a Bicycling Presentation to your School (20 points)
Local Motion's Everyday Bicycling Program is a suite of workshops that are inclusive and accessible to be as inviting as possible for anyone who is interested in bicycling more. Local Motion’s workshop leaders are all experienced transportation bicycle riders who work hard to create a welcoming and inspiring atmosphere that recognizes that everyone will engage in bicycling at their own levels.
We offer workshops for people of all ages (including school groups). There is no limit on the number or content of workshops Local Motion can bring to your school.
You can also get credit for hosting another organization’s bicycling presentation.
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Presenter's Name.
- The organization the presenter belongs to (if applicable).
- Content of the presentation.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
- When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Run a Bike Safety Program at Your School
Run a Bike Safety Program at your School (20 points)
- Bring Local Motion’s Bike Smart program to your school.
- Local Motion’s Bike Smart program includes a 20’ trailer with everything you need to run a bike skills training program, including bikes and helmets, which is accompanied by a games-based bike skills curriculum.
- This program is free for all Vermont schools, aside from a delivery fee, which will be waived for Way to Go! participants.
- You can also get credit for running your own 1-2 week-long bike skills program.
How to Earn Points
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Brief Description of Program (if Bike Smart, just write "Bike Smart").
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Bike to School Day
Bike to School Day (20 points)
- Suggested date: National Bike to School Day is May 9, 2019, but you can run this event anytime during the school year that works for you.
- Schools encourage students and staff to bike to school, aiming for 100% participation.
- Note: Schools generally give participants the option to walk and use scooters as well as using bikes.
How to Earn Points
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Carpool Day
Carpool Day (20 points)
- Run an event at your school where you encourage families and co-workers to carpool to school on a certain day (or days!)
- Note: Great for rural schools!
How to Earn Points
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Incorporate Transportation into Your Curriculum
Incorporate Transportation in your Curriculum (50 points)
- Contact Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP) to get support for adding sustainable transportation to the curriculum, or create your own curriculum sequence on sustainable transportation.
- VEEP has curriculum resources available on its website and is also available to consult with teachers or students on transportation curriculum, personalized learning, or projects.
How to Earn Points
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date(s).
- Provide overview of the lesson sequence you used in the classroom.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
- Number of Classes Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event(s), you can log your activity(ies) here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Data Collection
Data Collection (50 points)
- NOTE: This section is ONLY for reporting how your students get to work on a NON-EVENT day (i.e. a "regular day with no special events happening"). If you want to report any other activities (like a Bike to School Day, a Walking Wednesday, etc), go here: https://www.123formbuilder.com/form-3881982/
- We want to know if your students' travel behavior has changed over time!
- Capture data on all the different ways your school community gets to and/or from school in the Fall, and again in the Spring, to help identify any transportation behavior changes in your school.
- Data collection needs to be performed during a regular (non-event) week at school. Count how students and staff travel to (or from) school for 2-3 days in the fall, and again for 2-3 days of similar weather in the spring
- You will receive 25 points for your fall collection and your remaining 25 points for your spring collection.
- Note: This is a great way to engage volunteers and students!
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this activity:
- Data Collection Form (http://saferoutesdata.org/)
- Create an account (it's free and easy).
- If your school is already on the list, and you don't have access, e-mail education@localmotion.org to get access.
- You can create an electronic form (for help, e-mail education@localmotion.org for assistance).
- Or you can utilize this form: http://saferoutesdata.org/downloads/SRTS_Two_Day_Tally.pdf
- Two or three days' worth of data is best.
- Please collect data on two or three of these days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
- Please choose days that don't have special Way to Go! events scheduled
- Each classroom should receive this tally.
- Enter the data (if using a paper form) on saferoutesdata.org, or send scanned forms to education@localmotion.org to enter data.
- Data Collection Form (http://saferoutesdata.org/)
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When you’re ready to report this activity, you can log your work here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Design Your Own
Design Your Own Program (50 points)
The sky is the limit! If it is sustainable-transportation related, we already love it!
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
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Description of program must include:
- Length of program.
- How it relates to sustainable transportation.
- A description of the activities that students/staff/community participated in.
- Estimated number of Students participating.
- Estimated number of Staff participating.
- If you aren't certain your program would qualify, feel free to contact us at info@waytogovt.org.
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When you’re ready to report your events, you can log your activities here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Park and Walk Day
Park & Walk Day (20 points)
- Everyone parks at a location that is along a safe route to school, and families, co-workers and students all walk together the rest of the way to school.
- Note: Great for rural schools!
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Ride the Bus Day
Ride the Bus Day (20 points)
- Suggested date: Free Bus Ride Day from Vermont transit providers (TBD) or pick your own Ride the Bus Day.
- Schools encourage all students who are eligible, to take the bus to school. Students who are not eligible for bus pick-up should walk, carpool or bike to school.
- Note: Schools can add an additional challenge for students and staff to take public transportation if it is available in your region.
How to Earn Points
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Recurring Events
Recurring events (10 points/event)
These are events that you run regularly at your school (ex: Walking Wednesdays). A school will get 10 points every time they participate in a recurring event--like a Walking Wednesday.
You can also get Recurring Event points if you bring Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP) (or another sustainable transportation curriculum) to more than one class at your school. Your school will receive 50 points for the first class that integrates sustainable transportation programming into the curriculum and 10 points for each additional class that participates.
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date (do a separate entry for each time you run an event--ex: Walking Wednesdays--if you ran an event each week, you would do four separate entries, one for each date).
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your events, you can log your activities here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
School Travel Plan
Safe Routes to School Travel Plan (50 points)
- Note: Schools that already have a functional School Travel Plan do not need to do anything additional in order to receive points. You’re all set!
- What is a School Travel Plan?
- A School Travel Plan is a written document that outlines a school and community’s intentions for enabling students to walk or bike to and from school. It is developed through a team-based approach that involves the school, experts, and often, members of the public. The team works together to identify barriers to walking and biking and develops strategies to address them.
- Learn more here: http://saferoutes.vermont.gov/resources/miniguides#travelplan.
- Utilizing your travel plan to inform your Safe Routes to School or Way to Go! work will also earn you points.
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
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Creating a new School Travel Plan (50 points)
- A brief description of your work starting a school travel plan.
- We'll check in with you periodically to see if you need any help or support.
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Existing School Travel Plan (50 points)
- Send us a copy of your School Travel Plan, or a link to the School Travel Plan on the Safe Routes to School. website (http://saferoutes.vermont.gov/your-school/partner-profiles).
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Utilizing Existing School Travel Plan (20 points)
- Brief description of how you utilized your School Travel Plan this year.
- Date of any events where you utilized the School Travel Plan.
- Estimated number of students and staff participating in events where you utilized the School Travel Plan.
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Creating a new School Travel Plan (50 points)
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When you’re ready to report your events, you can log your activities here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Walk or Bike to a Field Trip
Walk or Bike to a Field Trip (20 points/event)
- Do you have a great field trip location near your school? Perhaps your school is located near a farm, another local business, a park, etc? Walking or biking with your students to that field trip location is a great way to encourage healthy habits, as well as saving money on transportation costs for the field trip!
- Note: Great for rural schools!
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Walk to School Day
Walk to School Day (20 points)
Suggested date: National Walk to School Day is October 10, 2018, but you can run this event anytime during the school year that works for you.
Schools encourage students and staff to walk to school, aiming for 100% participation.
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
The Way to Go! Challenge
Way to Go! Challenge Event (50 points)
- This is our flagship challenge. We’ll be running this Challenge for 1 to 2 weeks in the Spring.
- Just pick day(s) during the Challenge to encourage your students, coworkers and parents to walk, bike, bus, roll, carpool, to school!
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date(s).
- Brief description of what you did for the Challenge (what transportation modes did you promote? Biking, walking, scooting, bus, carpooling, etc).
- Estimated number of Students participating.
- Estimated number of Staff participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activities here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
Winter Walk to School Day
Winter Walk to School Day (20 points)
- Suggested date: February 6, 2019.
- Promote year-round healthy habits! It’s a great way to get kids to try being outdoors even when it’s cold!
- Note: We’ll also provide special incentives to help motivate your students (like hot chocolate or other goodies!)
HOW TO EARN POINTS
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Information needed to receive points for this event:
- Date.
- Estimated Number of Students Participating.
- Estimated Number of Staff Participating.
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When you’re ready to report your event, you can log your activity here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.
VEHI Path Points
PARTICIPATE IN VEHI PATHPOINTS--KEEPING FIT AND/OR ADVENTURE (20 POINTS)
- School staff can earn credit at VEHI PATHpoints--Keeping Fit and/or Adventure by recording walking and biking in their PATH account Progress Log. Visit www.tomypath.com to login or create your PATH account. Click “contact us” for further guidance.
HOW TO GET POINTS
- If your Wellness Coordinator (or the equivalent) encourages your school's staff to participate in the VEHI PATHpoints--Keeping Fit and/or Adventure, your school is eligible for 20 points!
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When you’re ready to report your Wellness Coordinator's PATHpoints--Keeping Fit and/or Adventure promotion, you can log it here: Way to Go! Activity & Event Log.