Strand 3:
Individual and Community Health
Outcome:
5.6: A student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.
Student Learn About:
> Road Safety
- major casual factors in road and traffic-related injuries, e.g. human (speeding, drug use, fatigue, occupant restraint), environmental, vehicular.
- consequences of unsafe road-use behaviour
- skills and attitudes that support safe road behaviour, e.g. hazard perception, road sharing and tolerance
Student Learn To:
- propose and present strategies designed to promote safe road-use attitudes and behaviours
- use stimulation software to make health decisions and solve problems relevant to young people, e.g. determining strategies that promote safe road use
Stimulus:
Video Clips
Scope of Task:
This lesson builds on previously developed knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to road safety. Students identify and evaluate the broad range of factors that have the potential to impact on the health decisions and behaviours of young people. They apply understandings of influencing factors to continue practicing strategies to minimize harm to themselves and others relevant to road safety.
Activity Outline:
Students will engage in a range of video clips that focus on car crashes. From these clips students will answer a series of questions and have the chance of design their own road safety campaign.
Activity 1:
Viewing of Video Clips Smart Car Crash Testing
Activity 1 Question:
What were the factors being tested in these two test crashes??
Activity 2:
Viewing of Car Crashes RTA Heaven and Hell TV Advertisement http://www.forumeter.com/video/25940/RTA-Heaven-and-Hell-TV-ad http://www.forumeter.com/video/25942/Country-Speeding-RTA-3-3
Please Slow Down RTA Commercial
Activity 2:
1. Unscramble the following possible causes that can lead to car accidents:
- eepds
- euftagi
- rsdug
- holaloc
- rthewea
- chviela
- noditconi
2. Analyse the current designs, campaigns and technologies that have been put in place to combat these car accident determining factors and state ways in which you think they could be improved or marketed. (For example to combat different road surfaces and conditions (i.e. slippery road from snow or rain) many motor vehicles now have installed and anti-slip button or traction control which can be activated during these conditions to enhance car traction.
3. In groups of 3-4 design and propose the implementation of a driver awareness campaign. This campaign can take any form (slogan, brochure, TV commercial proposal, cartoon image/comic drawing, PowerPoint presentation, blog page etc) It must however successfully address at least one of the factors that lead to motor vehicle accidents.
Take Home Message
What do you Do If You Have a Crash??? http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/crashes/index.html
Reason For Inclusion:
Motor vehicle accidents in Australia every year account for:
1. In say a given week there are 100,000 collision enhancing acts acts by drivers;
2. Lets say this results in 10,000 close shaves, tyre squealing, heavy braking, swerving etc;
3. There are 1,000 minor collisions where people are shaken up but not injured;
4. In 100 instances people are hospitalised with injuries from which they make a complete recovery;
5. In 10 cases injuries are so severe people are left with permanent impairment;
6. There is one death
In an effort to reduce the mortality rates education and prevention strategies need to be put in place. Educating the youth of today is the first steps towards this aim. At some stage nearly each and every individual will step behind the wheel of a car and need to be aware of where unsafe practices and behaviours will lead them. Together we can make the roads of tomorrow a safer place.
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