10 Safety Steps to School

This kit is designed for use by elementary educators. It includes a variety of reproducible materials that can be used to create lessons to motivate students, friends, and relatives to practice safe transportation when traveling to and from school. The kit includes the following pieces:

Dear Educator Letter to teachers and school administrators concerning the safety of their students when traveling to and from school. It includes ideas on how to incorporate the 10 Safety Steps to School materials into classroom activities and lessons. (DOT HS OST-X0129E, Item #5P0182)

10 Safety Steps to School fact sheet is a one page list of the 10 safety rules students should follow when traveling to school. (1995, DOT HS OST-X0129D, Item #5P0183)

Student/Parent Pledge Sheet contains safety pledges to be signed by students and their parents. Each sheet has 10 safety related promises both the students and their parents pledge to follow when traveling. (1995, DOT HS OST-X0129A, Item #5P0177)

"I Travel Safely To School" sticker (3" round) is designed to be placed on each pledge sheet signed by students and their parents. (1995, DOT HS OST-X0129B, Item #5Z0001)

10 Safety Steps To School poster (8.5” x 44”) depicts 10 ways that students can remain safe whenever they are traveling. It is black and white, ready to be colored. (1995, DOT HS OST-X0129C, Item #5P0179)

Traffic Safety Materials Catalog

This NHTSA catalog offers free materials developed for a wide range of audiences, including brochures, pamphlets, reports, fact sheets, posters, public service announcements and educational films. It covers bicycle and helmet safety, community traffic safety, driver education and licensing, emergency rescue, employer traffic safety programs, impaired driving, motorcycle and helmet safety, occupant protection, pedestrian safety, public health and injury prevention, school bus safety, traffic law enforcement, traffic safety research and vehicle-related safety. (1999/2000, DOT HS 808 337, Item #5P0250)

Safe Kids Are No Accident

This colorful 12-page traffic safety activity booklet includes games, puzzles and other fun activities to help teach parents and children about bicycle, pedestrian and motor vehicle safety. It also includes a special section on what to do in case of an emergency. Available from the National SAFE KIDS Campaign. Call 1-800-289-0117 or visit www.safekids.org/resource to order.

A colorful game and activities booklet for elementary school children covering bicycle, pedestrian, school bus and passenger car safety issues. "Gus the Bus" introduces songs and poems to help children remember basic safety rules. A coloring page and crossword puzzle reinforce the messages. The center section is designed to be removed and photocopied for take-home use, while the outside game board and game pieces can be used as a classroom teaching tool. (September 1998, DOT HS 808 754, Item #6P0131)

Safetyville

This safety-oriented coloring book for young children features ten illustrations of simple safety steps they can follow each time they travel. (English: DOT X0434, Item #5P0165; Spanish: X0433, Item #5P0166) A full color Safetyville poster illustrating the 10 safety steps, is also available. (English: DOT X0419, Item #5P0160; Spanish: DOT X0418, Item #5P0161).

Children In Traffic

This 13 minute video, designed by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, presents real-life footage showing how children's perceptions (sight, hearing, depth perception, concentration, and so forth) of traffic differ from those of adults. Everyone, especially drivers, need to be aware of children's perceptual and behavioral differences, not only at the beginning of the school year, but throughout the entire year. "Children in Traffic" can be purchased by visiting the AAA Founda-tion’s website at www.aaafts.org or by calling 1-800-305-SAFE.

Otto the Auto Series

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety presents the "Otto the Auto" series. "Otto the Auto" is a popular set of single-concept animated or mixed-animation videos for primary grade levels using an animated safety car called "Otto the Auto." The videos present basic pedestrian, passenger, school bus, and bicycle safety education lessons in short, amusing learning sequences. Each series is on a separate video and can be purchased individually by visiting the AAA Foundation’s website at www.aaafts.org or by calling 1-800-305-SAFE.

Move With Science: Energy, Force, and Motion

This educator's resource uses methods of transportation that are most familiar to high school students (grades 9 through 12). The book brings real transportation situations, representing such concepts as inertia, stability, and the relationships between mass, energy, and motion, into the classroom through analogous hands-on activities and background reading sections. It also focuses on the physics and biology of transportation safety and safety devices, providing an understanding of physics that will allow students to make informed safety decisions. To order and purchase this book, visit the National Science Teachers Association's website at www.nsta.org or call 800-722-NSTA.