Kids+on+the+Move

Vic Roads. (2012). Core Primary School Resource. //Kids on the Move//. State Government of Victoria. Retrieved on 12/08/2012 from [|here].
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Kids on the Move is the core road safety education resource for primary schools. It targets a minimum level of traffic safety education for children in Prep to Year 2 and children transitioning from primary to secondary school (Years 5 and 6).
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The Kids on the Move (KOTM) kit contains three books and a DVD.
 * What is the Resource?**
 * Book 1 provides ideas for taking a whole school approach to engage and improve the road safety of school communities
 * Book 2 targets classroom teachers at VELS levels 1 and 2 (Grades Prep - 2)
 * Book 3 targets classroom teachers at VELS levels 4 and 5 (Grades 5 - 6)
 * A Child’s World of Traffic DVD educates parents/carers of children in Prep to Year 2 about the developmental issues that put children at risk when near traffic and includes a quiz which they can do with their children.

Physical, Personal and Social Learning • The individual learner • Managing personal learning • Interpersonal Development
 * VELS Domains Addressed by Resource:**

The Arts • Creating and making • Exploring and responding

English • Writing • Speaking and listening

Mathematics • Number

The Humanities • Geography

Information and Communications Technology • ICT for visualising thinking • ICT for communicating

This is a great resource because it provides developmentally appropriate activities to students in two different age brackets. The younger years (P - 2) starts out with introductory activities that identify students' prior knowledge in what they already know about the road environment, what traffic is, and what the purpose of road signs are, etc. The younger years resource is far more comprehensive and prove to be a vital tool in the teaching of road traffic education. Activities start off with "in the classroom" (introducing the topic), "exploring the local area" (starting off in the school grounds then going out for a walk around the streets to make connections with the introductory lesson/s), "back in the classroom" (to debrief after the walk and to discuss the things observed in terms of street design/traffic flow, etc), and finally "back at home" (this gets students to talk with the family/carers about the things they know and how to stay safe around the roads). Plenty of great information and loads of terrific activities. Here is a sample of the P - 2 module - Sample activity no.1 [PDF, 297KB, 6pp.
 * What's so good about this resource?**

The older years (5 - 6) looks more at road trauma and causes of crashes. They look at contributing factors such as human, environmental and vehicle factors which they then use to analyse and investigate why road accidents happen and how the risks can be managed. This resource is not quite as extensive as the first one but as a teacher you would reiterate some of the earlier concepts just to be sure that students are well aware of road rules/signs and how to stay safe around the roads. This resource is mostly about getting students to research road trauma and find out as much as they can in terms of accidents that happen and who is to blame (vehicle, environment, humans). This can be a touchy subject if anyone in the class has lost someone to road trauma so the utmost care is required when delivering this topic. Here is a sample of the 5 - 6 module - Sample activity no.2 [PDF, 370KB, 3pp.

Contact your regional DEECD Senior Program Officer (Road Safety Education) to obtain a copy of Kids on the Move and access the professional development available for teachers on the resource.
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