Getting the Message
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund- Year level
- Years 9 to 10, VCE VM
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 25 students
- Cost
- Free program
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
During this facilitator-led program, students research a 14- to 17-year-old road user group (pedestrians or cyclists) and craft a call to action designed to reinforce a chosen positive behaviour through the creation of a video ad.
Students will examine community health ads and explore key factors such as audience, media type and evidence-based research in creating positive behaviour change outcomes.
Students will experience
- An interactive and immersive visit to the Road to Zero Experience Space including: a virtual reality experience where students travel in a car from 1970 to 2055; an elevator simulation where students experience a dramatic ‘drop’ from the 11th floor of the Royal Exhibition Building; as well as a digital exploration of the Transport Accident Commission’s well-known Graham sculpture.
- Using touchtable technology to create a video advertisement with supporting evidence, pre-shot footage, sounds effects and music.
- Working collaboratively in groups to create a persuasive health ad.
Students will learn
- About the Safe System approach to road safety.
- To examine community health ads, including key factors such as audience, media type and evidence-based research in creating positive behaviour outcomes.
- About the key behavioural, legal and safety factors influencing teen road safety issues to feel empowered to make safe road choices.
Students will need
- Students will need to have their email address available. Student work and class video assets will be sent to the teacher and students after the program for further analysis or extension back at school.
Other key information
The program includes:
- A 45-minute session in the Road to Zero Experience Space – an interactive and immersive gallery experience.
- The ‘Getting the Message’ 75-minute session in the Learning Studio.
Victorian Curriculum links
Health and physical education levels 9 to 10
Contributing to healthy communities
- Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies (including first aid and CPR) for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be negatively impacted at home, school and in the community
VC2HP10P08 - Critique health information, services and media messaging about relationships, lifestyle choices, health decisions and behaviours to evaluate their influence on their own, others’ and community’s attitudes and actions
VC2HP10P09 - Plan, justify and critique strategies to enhance their own, others’ and community’s health, safety, relationships and wellbeing
VC2HP10P10
Ethical Capability
- How connections, distinctions and tensions between ethical concepts and between ethical perspectives are used to identify and analyse ethical issues, including their ethical significance, and how they are used to analyse responses to ethical issues, including their ethical significance
VC2CE10D01 - How more than one of the consequences framework, duties framework or virtues framework can be used to guide decision-making in response to an ethical issue, and similarities and differences between these and alternative ethical frameworks
VC2CE10D02
Personal and Social Capability
Self-efficacy and sense of purpose
- The significance of individual responsibility and adaptability in decision-making when completing challenging tasks and planning for the future
VC2CP10S05
VCE Vocational Major
- Unit 1: Healthy individuals
- Unit 2: Connecting with community
- Unit 3: Leadership and teamwork
- Unit 4: Community project
- Unit 1: Understanding and creating digital texts
- Unit 2: Understanding issues and voices, Responding to opinions
- Unit 4: Understanding and engaging with literacy for advocacy
- Units 1-4: Personal numeracy, Civic numeracy, Health numeracy
Related links
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