Resources for teaching road safety
Grade 10 RoadSense Package (Planning)
Contents:
- Teacher backgrounder with statistics, issues and more
- Five instructional plans
- Road Sensibility guide
- Two videos : Your Life, Your Choice; Final Marks
- Four posters
The five instructional plans can help students achieve a significant proportion of the curriculum requirements for Planning 10. Each plan lists the specific learning outcomes that it helps to achieve.
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Instructional plans - summary of contents
Approach |
Content focus |
Road safety content |
Group work and learning centres —decreasing the risks of injury and death among young people |
Working in groups, students critically analyze a range of situations that can put them at risk of injury or death, and develop promotional materials aimed at creating awareness of potential dangers. |
- Impaired driving (alcohol)
- Car crash consequences
- Seatbelt use
- Theft from vehicle
- Reckless thrill-seeking behaviour
- Speed
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Video-based activity
Your Life, Your Choice — assessing risks and planning viable management strategies
Final marks |
Takes the students through a collection of fast-paced vignettes and scenarios looking at different aspects of alcohol, drug use and driving. It uses humour and real-life situations to deliver its message.
Students consider and discuss the physical, emotional and financial consequences of vehicle crashes. The video also highlights how passengers, those in the other vehicle and friends and family are affected. |
- Impaired driving (drugs and alcohol)
- Reckless driving
- Speed
- Car crash consequences
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Direct instruction and independent research — calculating the costs of buying and insuring a vehicle |
Students investigate the costs of acquiring, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle. In addition students calculate the benefits of maintaining a good driving record and earning insurance discounts. |
- Auto crime
- Insuring a vehicle
- Driver education
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Case study — decisions and consequences |
Four case studies pose real-life problems students might encounter in their own lives. |
- Driver distractions
- Impaired driving (drugs and alcohol)
- Seatbelt use
- Road rage
- Speed
- Reckless thrill-seeking behaviour
- Auto crime
- Peer pressure
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Media analysis — a picture’s worth a thousand words. |
Students examine a range of materials representing a variety of media that relates to driving, safety, and auto crime to distinguish social marketing materials, and to assess the messages accordingly. |
- Speed
- Seatbelt use
- Driver education
- Impaired driving (alcohol)
- Auto crime
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