Key Questions |
Weblinks |
Suggested resources |
Is our school on a busy road? |
Transport pictures www.freefoto.com |
With the children’s help, label a wall display of photographs of the road outside the school to show aspects related to traffic, eg road signs, road markings. |
Is parking a problem? |
Display of photos |
Print out digital photographs. With the children’s help, design and carry out a survey of the numbers of cars parked in the street. Ask the children to present the results as a graph, using simple graphing software, and analyse them. (Starting Graph – Cars) |
How is parking controlled? |
E-Mail Local Council Road Safety
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Ask the children to make use of all the evidence they have collected (photographs and survey results) to write a letter to the transport department at the local council to ask about the possibility of a safety feature, eg a pedestrian crossing, being constructed. |
How could the area be made safer for pupils? |
Make and analyse graphs… |
Use packages such as “Starting Graph” |
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Write a letter |
Could email…local council – transport department – about possibility of safety feature |