Lesson Plan 6 - Strand 3: Individual and community health (Stage 5)

Rationale:
The aim of this learning task is to further develop student’s knowledge and understanding in skills and attitudes that support safe raod behaviour. The purpose of these activities is to create an environment where students are able to make critical decisions and plan strategies that will help reduce risk and minimise harm and increase hazard perception, road sharing and tolerance if they find themselves or others in similar situations. The students are prepared and are able act accordingly when confronted with these situations. They have also developed life skills such as decision making, planning and problem solving.

Outcomes 5.6:
A student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequencesrelated to health issues affecting young people.

Students learn about
Road safety:
- skills and attitudes that support safe road behaviour, eg; hazard perception, road sharing and tolerance.

Students learn to:
-use simulation software to make health decisions ad solve problems relevant to young people, e.g determining strategies that promtoe safe road use.

Learning experiences:

Students will work in pairs at a computer station and will each have access to the rta website and to the practice tests that students will be participating in order to complete their driver qualifications. Each student will complete the green p plate driver simulated computer test.In pairs they will analyse each of the situaitons they have been presented with and discuss all the possible options and which was the safest possible solution and why. Students will than answer the following questions to further understanding.

Higher Order Thinking Questions:
1. What factors influenced poor decision making and why?

2. What strategies did specific groups use to minimise the risk in their situations and why?

3. Should society do more in trying to reduce the amount of negligent driving by younger people, why and how?

4. Why do people, young people especially tend to put themselves in higher risk taking situations?

Stimulus:
RTA computer drivers qualificiation tests.