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Car and Bus Safety: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Nearly every child will ride in a car or take a bus during their elementary career, that's why it is so important to teach them safety skills. First, little ones discuss why safety rules are important. Then, they go over rules that will...
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Traffic Safety Quiz Show

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a Jeopardy game answering questions about safe behavior and pedestrian and bicycling safety procedures. They discuss and review biking and walking safety rules then play the game. This lesson plan includes the...
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Sidewalk Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The use of role-play comes into play in a instructional activity on being safe when around traffic. Learners pretend they are walking on sidewalks and approach street corners that have a traffic light. They practice crossing the street...
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Accidents Happen: Seat Belt Laws, Enforcement, and Usage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Start with a NOVA video about car crashes, crash test dummy footage, or other video about seat belt use. Or have groups review attached data about seat belt usage (by state) and share their conclusions. Learners then devise a method to...
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Pedestrian Safety Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Distracted pedestrians? Yes. This lesson on pedestrian safety points out the dangers of texting and posting while walking around traffic. In addition, kids learn about safety resources available for those on foot.
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Street Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners explore fire safety rules through a variety of teacher-led activities. In this safety lesson, students choose appropriate felt board pieces as they listen to My Car by Byron Barton. Seat belt and car seat safety, as well as...
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Diplomacy, Humor Take New NHTSA Chief Far

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore traffic safety. In this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lesson, students read the USA Today article titled "Diplomacy, Humor Take New NHTSA Chief Far," respond to discussion questions regarding the...
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Stop, Look, and Listen

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a class discussion and view a traffic safety video dealing with crossing the street safely. They discuss the steps taken in order to cross the street safely and then analyze the benefits of walking and...
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Traffic signs and signals

For Teachers K
Students understand and follow directions based on traffic signs. In this traffic signs lesson plan, students play the game red light green light and are asked why they stop and go according to the colors. They then are introduced to the...
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Safe or Not Safe

For Teachers K
Students discuss the safety signs they viewed on their way to school before looking at safety signs at a website that presents a traffic safety school for students. They listen to a read aloud of Tana Hoban's, "I Read Signs," make signs,...
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Bicycle Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
learn the meanings of various signs for pedestrians, cyclists, and in-line skaters.
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How Safe is Your School Bus?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research various aspects of school bus safety such as what makes a bus safe and unsafe. Using provided Internet sites and others students examine what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say and also what...
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Designing Safer Roadways

For Teachers 4th
Be careful on curvy roads. An interesting STEM activity challenges scholars to design a safe road system. The goal is to help ensure that cars coming down a hill will be able to make a right turn without sliding off the road. Pupils test...
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Bicycle Safety Rodeo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars participate in nine different stations in a series of bike handling drills and the simulation of traffic situations.
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Safety First - Danger in the Schoolyard?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students check for safety hazards in the schoolyard. In this safety lesson, students become safety wardens and they check the dangers of the playground. They write six safety rules and display them on the playground. 
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Bicycle Safety

For Teachers 1st
First graders see how to operate and practice safe behavior on bicycles. They make a class chart that lists safe and unsafe behaviors when riding bicycles, then participate in a series of bike safety stations set up around the classroom.
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What's Your Sign?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners recognize common traffic signs and signals.
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Streetfilms' Moving Beyond the Automobile

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
This is an exceptional series that you can use in an environmental or engineering unit. There are four lessons: "Sustainable Transportation," "Designing for Safety," "Changing the Landscape," and "Engaging in Policy." Each lesson...
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Helmet Safety

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch a video and a demonstration and then share their experiences walking and riding their bicycle. They explore how to ride and walk safely.
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Safety and Injury Protection

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify safety rules for passengers and pedestrians and explore school bus safety. They also complete a picture illustrating a school bus safety rule, as well as, discuss bus behavior rules.
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Dangerous Roads in Your Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners collect information about dangerous streets and intersections in community, interview law enforcement officials and safety experts to find out what they think can be done to reduce accidents, write in-depth article using these...
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How safe is your school bus?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research various aspects of school bus safety about what makes a bus safe or unsafe. They check the Internet (with sites below and others) and see what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say.
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Road Safety-Transporting Cargo Safely

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore transportation and delivery of cargo.  In this truck logistics instructional activity, 12th graders research the safety precautions needed to ensure proper delivery of cargo aboard delivery trucks.  Students read...
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MFL: Road Safety Vocabulary 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars brainstorm any words they associate with traffic and safety. In groups, they work together to describe what is happening in certain images. They discuss what they would tell others who were acting in an unsafe way.

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