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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Bicycles
A very extensive site from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that deals with all aspects of bicycle safety. Click on the menu under Useful Information to find activities and materials for kids, information for parents,...
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Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety: Research
This is a collection of reports of studies of driving safety. It includes information about the crash risk of cell phone use and the use of in-vehicle technology among older adults.
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National Highway Traffic Safety: Social Cognition
This page discusses social cognition related to traffic safety strategies and youth characteristics. Some topics discussed are attribution, social schemata, and scripts.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Automobile
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Smart Motorist: Air Bag Safety Facts
Facts at this website are taken from the following organizations: Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, National Safety Council, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Find detailed...
Read Works
Read Works: Traffic Lights
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about traffic lights and how to use them to cross a street. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sidewalk Safety
Role-play safe behaviors related to traffic, streets and roadsigns, and learn how to stay safe when walking on sidewalks. Recite a traffic safety rhyme, and practice crossing streets safely. Related episode: D.W. Rides Again
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Safe Kids Worldwide: Pedestrian Safety
Whether your kids are walking to school, the park or a friend's house, here are a few simple tips to make sure they get there safely.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Public Health, 1900 1999 Motor Vehicle Safety
Read about the reduction in vehicle-related deaths and the safety measures that made traveling safer. This article includes some information on the Highway Safety Act and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Acts, through which...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: Watch Out!
Learn to recognize different safety signs you may see in your community or when traveling. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Bmw: Safe on the Streets
The BMW Group offers interactive, fun, easy-to-use resources for teachers, parents, and students to help find ways to keep safe on the streets. Provides safety tips, activities, and quizzes that help you learn to be safe whether you are...
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The Highway Safety Group
This site is devoted to the Highway Safety Act of 1966 and related safe highway practices. At the core, it is a movement to "save" the assault on highway safety.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Stop and Go
Lesson addresses how traffic is managed by the use of the traffic light. Student "engineers" work in teams to design a new traffic light system using new technology to meet the needs of society today.
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Nhtsa: Highway Safety Act of 1966
This is the act that was legislated to improve highway safety.
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U.s. Department of Transportation
The U.S Department of Transportation's motto is, "Safety is our top priority." To find out much more information on the Department of Transportation visit this website!
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Manual of Traffic Signs
Listing of the most commonly used traffic signs in the United States. The signs are listed by type (regulatory, warning, marker, guide) and sub-type (R1, R2, etc.)
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Safety & Consumer Protection: Seat Belt Safety
This website provides a general look at how safety belts, air bags, nad child safety seats protect passengers and save lives. Includes statistics as well as "life-saving advice."
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Left, Right, Left: Our Safe Walk
Learn how to cross the street and train tracks safely in your neighborhood. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
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National Transport Library: Highway Safety Desk Book
Extensive information on highway safety compiled for law enforcement leaders and supervisors.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Staying Safe Online (K 2)
Students understand that they should stay safe online by choosing websites that are good for them to visit, and avoiding sites that are not appropriate for them. They learn about the similarities of staying safe in the real world and...
Read Works
Read Works: Making Streets Safer
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about traffic lights and how they make streets safer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Detroit News Newsreels
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Science Museum, London
Science Museum Online Stuff: Garrett Morgan
An excellent article about inventor Garrett Morgan including information about his two life-saving inventions: the Safety Hood, an early gas mask, and the traffic light.
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