Road Safety For Children

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Road Safety For Children Created by Marsha Goren
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Road Safety for children - Introduction

• My name is Marsha Goren. I am an English
  teacher now for many years and have been
  educating children about Road Safety during my
  professional career. My workbook is now a part of
  the English curriculum in Israel and I decided to
  renew the project by creating an Internet web
  site in cooperation with Intel.
• I teach in Petach Tikva, Israel in the
  central district of the state in an elementary
  school called Ein Ganim. I teach the 4th, 5th,
  and 6th grade regular and gifted classes.

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How We Use Computers

• Using the Internet for research purposes.
• Children use the computer to express their ideas
  by Power Point Presentations.
• Children use the computer to design graphics.
• Children help me in creating my web sites. (I
  currently have three sites on the web including
  this one).
• Children use computer technology such as forums,
  chats, e - mails and more.
• Children use their creativity on the computer by
  expressing themselves and therefore improve oral
  and written skills.

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My Curriculum Framing Questions

• Why are there so many accidents in Israel and
  what can we do to prevent them?

• What can you do to prevent accidents?
• How can children contribute to this important
  subject?
• What can children do to help?

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Targeted Objectives

• The students will be able to use new vocabulary
  about road safety
• Grammatical structures
• Stories about road safety.
• Be able to identify the dangers of not being
  careful on the roads.
• Understand how they are responsible and how they
  can save their lives.

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Seeing Reason - By Intel

• The seeing reason mapping tool is a very
  effective way in teaching children about cause
  and effect. By using this tool, children improve
  their vocabulary, understanding of complex
  problems and learn to find the best and fastest
  way to sure results.
• The children work in pairs or groups on a subject
  that the teacher presents. Then, they begin to
  think about the question that the teacher
  presented (In our case, What are the reasons for
  many road accidents in Israel and how can we
  prevent them)?

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Seeing Reason - By Intel

• After the research and discussion the children
  start working with the mapping tool.
• The first thing they do is add the primary
  factors to the tool They write an explanation
  about each factor and then after adding all of
  the primary factors they begin the second stage.
  The second stage is to write the relation between
  one factor to another and to find as many
  relations possible.
• After this process, they begin to observe their
  work. They see that they should change some of
  the factors according to the findings and by
  doing so, their work changes bringing new
  discussions, more problems and the need to find
  solutions.

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Preventing Solutions In Class

• After ending the mapping tool exercise, the
  children will have to present new ideas and the
  results in front of the class.
• The presentation can be done in any creative way
  possible.
• Finally, the children will make new questions for
  further research and continue the project.