Activity 2: Understanding road user behaviour in our local community context

Activity 3: Understanding road user behaviour in our local community context (continued)

Activity 4: How risky is too risky?

Understanding road safety in our local community

Interactive crash statistics

Understanding road safety in our local community (continued)

How risky is too risky?

Contextual factors at play

Activity 5: Contextual factors at play in road user decisions and behaviours

Exploring risk taking from other perspectives

Activity 6: Exploring risk taking from other perspectives

Exploring other perspectives to inform our local community strategies

Activity 7: Exploring other perspectives to inform our local community strategies

Culminating challenge - Presentation of strategies to wider audience

Activity 8: Culminating challenge – Presentation of strategies

Teacher introduction to resource

Cruise control - Teacher introduction to resource

Ignition: Start navigating Cruise Control here

Authority Glossary

Authority

Who’s in authority? - Advanced

Authority and texts - Advanced

Acquiring authority - Advanced

Authority dispersed - Advanced

Demonstrating authority - Advanced

Who’s in authority - Standard, English Studies, EAL/D

Acquiring authority - Standard, English Studies, EAL/D

Demonstrating authority - Standard, English Studies, EAL/D

Section 1: Authority

Context and perspective

Context and perspective glossary

Exploring context - Advanced

Characters, context and audiences - All students

Exploring subtexts in other texts - Advanced

From text to context - Advanced

Text, context and perspective - Advanced

Perspective - All students

Exploring context - Std, ES and EAL/D

Exploring subtexts in other texts - Std, ES and EAL/D

From text to context - Std, ES and EAL/D

Text, context and perspective - Std, ES and EAL/D

Section 2: Context and perspective

Roadways to reading

Roadways to reading glossary

The roadways to reading - All students

The single track - All students

The open road - Advanced

The open road - Std, ES and EAL/D

Multi-lane highway - All students

Section 3: Roadways to reading

Rhetoric

Rhetoric - Advanced

Rhetoric glossary

The rhetoric of persuasion - Std, ES and EAL/D

Section 4: Rhetoric

Genre glossary

Genre

Genre - What is it? (Advanced)

Genre bending (Advanced)

The borderlands of genre (Advanced)

Genre - What is it? (Std, ES and EAL/D)

Genre and the music video (Std, ES and EAL/D)

Humour - Comedy genres (All students)

Section 5: Genre

Pedestrian

Novice driver

Speed

Fatigue

Students evaluate a suite of animated statistics to challenge their perceptions of road safety.

The Big Picture

Passenger

Distraction

Students create a campaign poster to raise awareness of a road safety issue.

Get the message

Wheels

Future driver

Students assess risky road user scenarios from the different perspectives of groups that include parents, P-plate drivers and passengers.

What's the risk?

Project kick-off teachers

How peer pressure, friends and other factors can influence the road safety decisions, both safe and dangerous, that young people make.

Choices

In pairs, students create a dialogue of responses to risky scenarios and role play these situations to the class.

Play your part

A visible thinking activity that allows students to identify the facts about road safety issues, checking the validity of statements.

Debating the issues – Tug for truth

Students conduct experiments to demonstrate how helmets work and why seatbelts need to be worn correctly.

Use your head

Students identify potentially harmful local road safety blackspots and write a report recommending ways to reduce risks.

My backyard

Alcohol and drugs

Explains MDT laws and procedures, allowing students to analyse the consequences and perspectives around drug use and driving.

Mobile drug testing

When young people put themselves in danger on the roads, the impact on families and communities can be heartbreaking.

The knock-on effect - impact of road crashes on family and community

Students use interactive crash data to help analyse potential consequences when people say “yeah” versus “nah” to taking risks on roads.

Yeah or Nah? The decision is yours

Focuses on the dangers to pedestrians in traffic environments caused by distractions such as mobile phones, headphones and earbuds. 

Dealing with distractions

Students examine the types of distractions that can affect your ability to drive and propose realistic strategies to reduce potential risks.

Driven to distraction

Content in posts can encourage high levels of risk taking among young people, while peer influence can be both positive and negative.

Social media and the risk-taking culture

Learn how to confidently respond when your safety or that of others may be at risk because of the poor behaviour of another person.

Assertiveness skills in social situations

Students analyse crash data of the contributing factors and behaviours that lead to greatest risk on the roads and dissect media reporting.

A numbers game

Students identify target audiences and key messages in road safety campaigns and slogans, then design their own awareness campaign.

Role of advertising in promoting safer choices

Poor access to local transport options can affect young people's independence, even more so in regional and rural areas.

Transport options in the local community

Students improve their knowledge of the road rules and regulations to be able to assess their responsibilities as drivers and passengers.

The Driver Knowledge Test

Call to action button - Test page

Activity 1: Risky business

Supports students in Year 11 English courses at a time when they are beginning to drive.

Cruise Control

Project Based Learning framework to encourage safer road use by young people in the local community (8 activities).

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