Road safety teaching and learning ideas
Stage 3
1. Safety report (pdf 146kb)
Students use self-appraisal to judge behaviour in the traffic environment after observing, reporting and rating the behaviour shown in the Stage 3 video.
2. Play it safe (pdf 122kb)
Students use task cards to demonstrate safe traffic practices for younger students.
3. Rating the risk - 1 (pdf 118kb)
Students play a card game to rate pedestrian and cyclist hazards in the traffic environment, highlighting the need to constantly monitor changing road conditions.
4. Head wear (pdf 205kb)
Students develop strategies to deal with peer group pressure, assisting them to adopt and maintain safe practices in the traffic environment.
5. Plan a safe journey (pdf 237kb)
Students consider all the factors affecting their safety as they plan journeys to the same destination using different modes of transport.
6. Belt up/Head gear (pdf 231kb) Students complete a jigsaw activity after a study of RTA statistics showing the risk of serious injury is reduced when protective gear is properly used.
7. Putting it all together (pdf 111kb)
Students jointly construct and perform a road safety rap or jingle after the teacher models the process.
8. Identifying safe behaviour (731kb)
Using still photographs, students identify and evaluate components of safe pedestrian behaviour in the traffic environment.
9. Read all about it (pdf 406kb)
Students work in pairs to read and deconstruct a newspaper advertisement and use it as a model to construct a similar advertisement for a safe road crossing procedure.
10. Safe behaviour (pdf 115kb)
Students link a thinking strategy to safe behaviour in the traffic environment.
11. Cycle care (pdf 273kb)
Students name bicycle parts, discover how to select a suitable bicycle and learn to perform a six point safety check.
12. Safety survey (pdf 167kb)
Students devise and conduct a survey that tests adult knowledge of road safety messages and they publish their results.
13. Take care (pdf 294kb)
Students fill in a word web before reading about and experimenting with protective gear. Information for safe cycling is read and keywords are highlighted before students write a 'safe cyclist' chart.
14. Change for safety (pdf 113kb)
Students work to raise community awareness about a local traffic issue, working for a safer neighbourhood - this is a long term sequence of activities.
15. Rating the risk - 2 (pdf 118kb)
Students play a game to rate passenger hazards in the traffic environment, highlighting the need to constantly monitor changing road conditions. This section also includes an extension activity for students to develop a similar game to rate hazards for skateboarders, scooter riders and roller blades.
16. Right foot, wrong foot (pdf 115kb)
Students use positional language to interpret RTA diagrams showing information about pedestrian accidents before developing advice about avoiding such accidents.
17. Be aware (pdf 170kb)
Students monitor the traffic situation immediately outside the school to identify unsafe practices. They propose and implement solutions and monitor the effectiveness of changing unsafe practices - this is long-term sequence of activities.
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