Curriculum - Road Safety Education

Safer Roads

The Safer Roads resources provide teachers with interactive teaching and learning strategies to implement a road safety program in their classroom. Safer Roads provides students with opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to help them make informed decisions in traffic and traffic environments. The resources are evidence based best practice and provide an outcome focused curriculum to the Northern Territory Curriculum Framework and National Curriculum.

Teacher Resource

Early Childhood (Pink)
Primary Years (Green)
Middle Years (future project)

Early Childhood Teacher Resource

This early childhood resource focuses on the crucial road safety content that students in Transition to Year 3 need in order to become safer road users. The content is linked to the Northern Territory Curriculum Framework and the Early Years Learning Framework.

 

Early Childhood Teacher Resource	File Size (pdf)
Introduction	1Mb
Road Safety Education	195Kb
Focus area 1 - Passenger safety	2Mb
Focus area 2 - Pedestrian safety	2Mb
Focus area 3 - Playing safely	745Kb
Focus area 4 - Sensing traffic	1Mb
Background information	1Mb
Teaching and learning strategies	1Mb

 

The reousrce includes:

• Teacher resource
• Discussion boards
• Road safety education storybooks
• Road sign pack
• Road network table mat
• CD

 

Primary Years Teacher Resource

The Primary Years Teacher Resource is designed for Year 3 to Year 6 students. The resource assists teachers to plan and implement a road safety program in the context of health and physical education.

 

Primary Years Teacher Resource	File Size (pdf)
Introduction	266Kb
Focus area 1 - Passenger safety	726Kb
Focus area 2 - Pedestrian safety	922Kb
Focus area 3 - Safety on wheels	450Kb
Focus area 4 - Road rules and signs	631Kb
Background information	231Kb
Teaching and learning strategies	1Mb

 

The reousrce includes:

• Teacher resource
• Discussion boards
• CD