Lesson Plans for Grades 4 to 6
In these lessons, students are led through scenarios that provoke decision-making around cycling, inline skating and skateboarding. They will learn to identify road risks as well as explore strategies to minimize them. They’ll also learn about being a safe passenger and pedestrian.
Working independently, or as part of a small group, these learning experiences are designed to meet a number of expectations found in the Ontario curriculum documents, including health and physical education, as well as language.
Teaching and learning strategies
- Allow students to combine health expectations with the arts (drama, role-play) and language, using Ontario curriculum to create authentic learning opportunities.
- Engage students in a range of cooperative and collaborative learning strategies that address differentiated instruction and multiple intelligences (kinesthetic learner).
- Engage students in higher-order thinking through open-ended questions that prompt learners to explore various ways of thinking, such as describing, analyzing, integrating, comparing and explaining.
- Coach and provide descriptive feedback to small groups of students or independent students during guided and independent activities.
- Provide formative assessment practices which will allow teachers to coach students and provide descriptive feedback to small groups of students or independent students during guided and independent activities.
Cross-curricular linkages
Drama
- Write and perform a short play that emphasizes the impact of poor decision-making about vehicle safety.
- Create short commercials about vehicle safety.
- Play charades to act out the effects of bad decisions about vehicle safety.
- Host a game show format event (for example, Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire) that focuses on the rules and responsibilities of pedestrian safety.
- Write newspaper articles and illustrate pictures or take photographs about pedestrian safety.
- Create a talk show-style drama in which students who have been involved in a crash are interviewed.
Music
- Create poems and songs with accompaniment about bike, skateboard, and rollerblade safety.
Mathematics
- Use the grid and coordinates on a map to recreate a crash scene. Or, describe the actions that should be taken in different scenarios to prevent a crash.
- Collect data on the number of students in the school who wear helmets when riding a bike, rollerblading or skateboarding, then graph the results and draw conclusions.
Visual Arts
- Create two- or three-dimensional works of art which convey messages about bike, skateboard, and rollerblade safety.
Social Studies
- Research the use of bicycles and bike routes in Ontario. Examine the regions where the use of bicycles is significantly higher. Have students plot these areas on a map of Ontario.
- Research the developments of transportation over time. Ask students how developments have either reduced or increased the number of road safety injuries.
Daily Physical Activity/Physical Education
- Create fitness activity stations marked by road signs and have students perform an exercise at each station.
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Find School Activities for your students’ Grade level and engage your school in road safety-related initiatives.
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See the Community Engagement Kit for more ideas, tools and tips to bring together the community for a road safety event.
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See Adaptation Tips for a list of tips and aspects to consider when adapting these activities to fit your class needs.