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...
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
Other
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Environmental Print
This lesson introduces students to the concept of reading through common items from the community. Through examining these items (environmental print), students will practice their reading skills and begin to see themselves as competent...