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Resources for teaching road safety

Grade 9 RoadSense Package (Health and Career Education)

Contents:Grade 9 - Health and Career Education

These materials address all or some of the following learning outcomes of the Health and Career Education 9 curriculum:

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

 

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

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

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

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

Guest speakers

Students learn from the real-life experience of others.

  • Speed
  • Reckless driving
  • Impaired driving
  • Car crash consequences

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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