Resources for teaching road safety
Grade 9 RoadSense Package (Health and Career Education)
Contents:
- Teacher backgrounder with statistics, issues and more
- Six instructional plans
- Video : Street Level
- Poster – Car Crashes are the #1 Killer of Youth
These materials address all or some of the following learning outcomes of the Health and Career Education 9 curriculum:
- Safety and injury prevention
- Education and careers
- Healthy living
- Healthy relationships
- Substance misuse prevention
Each instructional 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 |
Case studies — your choices and their consequences
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Students critically analyze case studies in which young people make decisions without considering all the possible consequences. |
- Impaired driving
- Speed
- Reckless driving
- Seatbelts
- Driving without proper licence
- Car crash consequences
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Whole-class & group work — auto crime and youth |
Students explore the consequences of auto crime, then work in groups to create proposals on how to reduce youth auto crime in the community. |
- Auto crime
- Reckless thrill-seeking behaviour
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Role plays — safety scenes; conflict and communication |
Students prepare and act out short scenes in which characters are called upon to make a road safety decision and/or effectively communicate a point of view. |
- New drivers
- Driver distraction
- Overcrowding/driving without a seatbelt
- Speed
- Substance abuse/driving
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Quiz & self-assessment — test your knowledge |
Students review their knowledge about substance abuse and reflect on their self-assertiveness and refusal skills. Each questionnaire provides the opportunity for students to examine, discuss, assess and sometimes reassess their assumptions. |
- Alcohol/drug impaired driving
- Assertiveness strategies for peer pressure/potentially dangerous situations
- Responding to emergency situations
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Guest speakers |
Students learn from the real-life experience of others. |
- Speed
- Reckless driving
- Impaired driving
- Car crash consequences
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Video-based activity — Street Level: common sense and courtesy on the road |
A fun, fast-paced video that will get students thinking about road safety in a different light. Follow Teagan and Mike as they rant in Speaker’s Corner fashion on everything from crossing the street to street racing. Whatever the rant, their dialogue on road safety issues in each of the four vignettes will encourage lively, thoughtful discussion. |
- Unsafe road use
- Road user inattention
- Road user distraction
- Safety equipment considerations
- Impaired driving
- Speeding
- Street racing
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