- Grade Focus
- Grade 10
- Age Level
- 15
- Subject
- Science
- Technology Integration Activity
- Discovering the Internet
- Estimated Time of Completion
- Three hours
Introduction
How are your senses used in driving?Prerequisite Experience
The students will have a basic understanding of the body’s senses. The students will also have had a lesson on the importance of having a healthy body for driving a motor vehicle.Teacher Prep Time
Approximately 45 minutes
Project
The students will talk with their cooperative group to point out how our different senses are used in particular scenarios that they see in a videos and pictures in a walkabout. After realizing how many ways our senses are used while driving, the students will continue to work collaboratively to create catchy slogans/bumper stickers/posters to promote safe driving by having healthy/working senses.Assessment/Grading
Bumper Sticker Contest, rubrice students will turn in their written group work, which will be graded on senses and their effects on driving. The groups will present their findings. The exit tickets are the catchy slogans that each student will turn in at the end of the block.Time Management Tips
Have walkabout pictures/signs hanging in advance.Lesson Plan Details
Engage
Introduce the lesson by putting the kids in ten equal groups. Have them do a walkabout asking via pictures and videos…. “How are the senses being used in this driving situation?”Explore
Sitting with their designated group, the students will discuss and write how their “assigned sense” is used during driving. Through the below livebinder.com link, the students will be directed through worksheets, vocabulary flash cards, a short driving and senses related video, and a couple of websites to read more about senses and driving. Throughout these activities, the group will have an opportunity to discuss how their senses are important. They may engage in questions such as, “what if….” And, also write some possible effects on driving when senses are not working properly. How will that affect your driving? The group needs to answer the questions, “What? Why? How? When? Where?.....will this sense be used while driving?”
Explain
The students will present their findings, their ideas, etc. to the class.Elaborate
Each group member will come up with one catchy slogan to promote good senses when driving. Each group will focus on their specific assigned sense. The slogans will be put on a word document grouped by senses, to also be used as a voting ballot.Evaluate
The group work writing assignment will be graded based on relative and meaningful content, as well as the presentation of their findings.The teacher will collect the catchy slogans as the “exit ticket”, which will be for a grade.During the next class, the students will vote on the best five slogans (1 slogan/sense) for a bumper sticker.Extend
The students will have the opportunity to join with the Safe Teen Driving/Seat Belt Challenge Club to promote safe teen driving in the hallways (with posters) and announcements in our school. This will be done during the week of the ring dance and the prom. Students will research via web based sites, contests for creative bumper stickers to promote safe teen driving.
The following link allows students to sign a seat belt pledge.
http://www.safekids.org/safety-basics/safety-spotlight/child-passenger-safety-week-sept-18-sept-24/