Student activity
Suitable for: Years 5 to 6
Learning areas: Road safety, Health
Topic: Human body
Develop students' road safety knowledge and prepare them to become independent travellers.
The free Safe Journeys Program helps Year 6 students become safe, independent travellers ahead of starting secondary school. This resource is designed to prepare students for their visit and guide them through the on site program.
In this activity students will
- Gain an understanding of the resources and transport options available to them
- Develop road safety knowledge and journey planning skills.
- Gain confidence in independently planning safe trips
- Reflect on their responsibility for contributing to a safer road network
- Be aware that their actions can have an impact at a personal, family and community level.
Suggested questions to engage students
- What is your road safety goal?
- How has your behaviour or attitude changed as a result of this program?
- What ideas do you have for improving road safety around our school?
- How can you share this knowledge with others in your community?
What to do
Download the teacher guide for more information about how to use the following resources.
The Safe Journeys student roadmap includes 10 lesson activities that can be adapted to fit your teaching schedule. Activities 1-3 are to be done before attending the Road to Zero complex at Melbourne Museum.
- Safe Journeys Teacher Guide| 8.58 MB .pdf file
- Safe Journeys Overview| 1.24 MB .pdf file
- Safe Journeys Program Student Road Map| 3.17 MB .pdf file
Victorian Curriculum Links
Health and Physical Education: Levels 5 and 6
Contribution to health communities
- investigate different sources, quality and types of health information and how these apply to their own and others’ health choices (VC2HP6P09)
- analyse how various strategies influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities (VC2HP6P10)
English: Level 6
Language for expressing and developing ideas
- identify the ways that still images (such as figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs), moving images and sound are used in texts to create point of view (VC2E6LA07)
Interacting with others
- deliver structured spoken and multimodal texts to an intended audience for a specific purpose, using appropriate features of voice (VC2E6LY02)
Texts in context
- examine texts, including media texts, that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
(VC2E6LY06)
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
- analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text and engage and influence audiences
(VC2E6LY07)
Media Arts: Levels 5 and 6
Creating
- use media languages, media technologies and production processes to construct media arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning for specific audiences
(VC2AMA6C01)
Ethical Capability: Levels 5 and 6
Understanding ethical concepts and perspectives
- the meaning of a worldview, and how worldviews influence ethical perspectives, and simple connections between influences on ethical perspectives, such as between rights and responsibilities and shared expectations, or between worldviews and values (VC2CE6U02)
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