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Lesson Plan Teaching Crosswalk Safety using Crosswalk Beacons
Lesson: Using crosswalk beacons.
Objective: Teach students how to use crosswalks that have crosswalk beacons.
Time: 45 minutes
Learning outcomes:
1. Students will be able to identify a crosswalk with crosswalk beacons 2. Students will be able to locate crosswalk beacon buttons & activate the beacon’s lights 3. Students will know they must wait for lights to flash and cars to stop 4. Students will know they must look left, right, and left again even after cars have stopped 5. Students will know they must continue looking left, right, left as they cross
Materials: 1. Paper and pencils or crayons for each student 2. Figure 1.1 & 1.2 for projection on screen or monitor, or printed as handout 3. Internet connection, projector screen and Oregon DOT Beacon Buddies Get a Brake video (found
on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTh-OY7tQw), OR Figure 1.3 Beacon Buddies crosswalk images for projection on screen or monitor, or printed as handout
4. Crosswalk with crosswalk beacons. Teaching Venue: This lesson is best taught partially in the classroom and partially outdoors using an actual crosswalk beacon. The lesson may be taught using the video or pictures only, but will be most effective if children have the opportunity to practice a real crossing scenario during the learning activity. If the learning activity is not used, lesson time is reduced to 25 minutes. This lesson is not limited to being taught in schools it may be used by youth groups, neighborhood associations, or other organizations who wish to teach children about the use of crosswalk beacons.
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Introduction (5 minutes) Explain: Today we are going to learn how to use crosswalk beacons to safely cross the street. Review what a crosswalk is:
1. Ask students if they know what a crosswalk looks like. 2. Ask students if they know what a crosswalk is for. 3. Ask students to draw a crosswalk.
Instruction - What is a crosswalk beacon? (10 minutes) Explain: Crosswalks are there so we can walk across the street safely. Sometimes crosswalks also have flashing lights we can use to let cars know when we are ready to cross the street.
1. Ask students if they know what a crosswalk beacon is. 2. Show students the picture of crosswalk signs (Figure 1.1) and explain that one sign has a beacon
and the other does not. 3. Ask students if they can tell you which sign has a beacon (lights and the push button). Explain
that sometimes crosswalk beacons also have a box on top that helps the beacons collect sunlight to use as power (point to white box).
4. Explain that crosswalk beacons have bright flashing lights that tell cars when somebody wants to cross the street and that cars are supposed to stop for people when the lights are flashing (point to lights).
5. Show Figure 1.2 and point out that crosswalk beacons are on both sides of the street. 6. Ask students to draw beacons on their crosswalk drawings just like in Figure 1.2.
Instruction – How do we use a crosswalk beacon? (10 minutes) Explain: Crosswalk beacons are flashing lights that we can use to tell cars we want to cross the street. In a moment we will get to use a crosswalk beacon together.
1. Ask, does anyone know how to use a crosswalk beacon? 2. Explain that crosswalk beacons have a button you can press that makes the lights flash. 3. Show the Oregon DOT Beacon Buddies crosswalk video located here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTh-OY7tQw OR use the Beacon Buddies crosswalk images in Figure 1.3 and explain:
a. The little boy wants to cross the street and needs to use the crosswalk b. The crosswalk has crosswalk beacons so the little boy can make the lights flash to tell
cars he wants to cross the street c. When the little boy presses the button, the lights start to flash d. When the lights start to flash the little boy waits until all the cars have stopped e. Once the cars have stopped the little boy looks left, right, and left again f. Once he is sure it is safe, the little boy crosses the street g. He keeps looks left and right while he crosses to be sure no more cars are coming h. The little boy has safely crossed the street
4. Ask students: a. What happened when the little boy pressed the button? (lights started to flash) b. What did the little boy do when the lights start to flash? (waited for cars to stop) c. Once the cars stopped, what did the little boy do? (he looked left, right, and left again to
make sure no more cars were coming) d. After the little boy looked left, right, and left again, then did he cross? (Yes)
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e. What else should the little boy do while he crosses the street? (keep looking left, right, and left again)
Activity – Using a crosswalk beacon (20 minutes) Take students outside to the crosswalk beacons. Explain: Remember how the little boy in the video pressed the button to make the lights flash, we’re going to practice doing just what that little boy did.
1. Ask students: a. Where are the crosswalk beacon’s lights? (the rectangular lights underneath the sign) b. Where is the button we press? (mounted on the pole beneath the sign)
2. Have a student press the button and have the class watch the lights flash 3. Ask students:
a. What do the flashing lights mean? (people want to cross the street) b. What should we do when the lights start to flash? (wait for cars to stop) c. When cars stop then what do we do? (look left, right, left to make sure no more cars are
coming) d. When we’re sure no more cars are coming, then what do we do? (cross the street) e. What should we do while we’re crossing the street? (keep looking left, right, left)
4. Practice crossing as a class, walking students through the steps as they cross the first time. 5. Practice crossing back across the street. This time have students say the steps out loud together
as they do them. 6. Finish by asking students if they have any questions.
