Activities in the school on traffic rules were held at all times. You can understand why. After all, they are aimed at introducing students to traffic rules, road signs, traffic controller gestures, traffic signals. It is such events that help to develop children's street behavior skills, knowledge about traffic safety, responsibility, discipline, activity and attention. There is no way to do without them. Therefore, it is worthwhile to describe in more detail how to conduct them and what to follow when drawing up a plan.
Dedication to pedestrians
What should be extracurricular activities in the school on traffic rules? Exciting, interesting and unusual. After all, they are not included in the school curriculum, which means they are not lessons. Therefore, the entertainment aspect is required, otherwise the students will not succeed in captivating the topic.
Therefore, the celebration of initiation of first graders in pedestrians will be a great idea. The purpose of this event is to familiarize children with elementary traffic rules through competitions and games. The tasks are as follows:
- Studying traffic signals and the simplest rules for crossing a road.
- Development of dexterity, attention, speed and interest in traffic rules.
- The education of diligent pedestrians.
Such an event can be held in the form of an interactive performance with a script. And for the role of the main characters to appoint a traffic light and a zebra. By the way, since it is now customary to conduct activities with parents on traffic rules at school, they can be instructed to fulfill these heroes and find interesting puzzles. By the way, they are best able to explain to children about the importance of “friendship” with a traffic light and traffic rules in a playful way. Such puzzles are suitable:
- Three eyes - three orders! Red is the most dangerous! (answer: traffic light).
- What light tells us: “Come in, the path is open”? (answer: green).
- He will tell the driver everything, he will indicate the correct speed. By the road, like a lighthouse, a good friend ... (answer: road sign).
It is worth carefully considering the scenario of such an event - it can be diversified by games, scenes, contests, dialogs, etc.
Class hour
In this format, events are most often held at school on traffic rules. However, this is a literate start, because during the classroom, the teacher gives the children information so that they listen and learn it. Only then can quizzes and games be organized. Nevertheless, the classroom hour should not be entirely in lecture format. Game element needed.
Let's say the theme of the event is road signs. After the introductory part, the teacher can invite the children to assemble the mosaic. He must give them a pre-prepared "puzzle" - the mixed parts of the cut traffic signs. Children, having divided into teams, should collect them. To do this, they will need A4 sheet and glue - to fix their puzzle. After they complete the task, the teacher will post the results on the board and in an understandable form will tell about the meaning of each sign collected by the students.
Justification of the topic
It is mandatory for every class hour. It is very important to justify the chosen topic for kids - the teacher must correctly explain why they are considering it. Naturally, it is chosen because the road is a place of potential danger, where dozens of pedestrians die every year - either because of their own inattention, or because of the negligence of drivers.
How to explain this to young children? Definitely not in words - kids need visibility. But in any case it is also impossible to include demonstration videos with accidents, this is already understandable. There is an alternative - a colorful cognitive cartoon called "Aunt Owl's Caution Lessons." Each episode examines a specific situation that, in a playful, child-friendly manner, explains how important it is to be careful and what the consequences may be if you do not listen to the advice. There is a story about traffic rules. It can be offered to students for viewing after the introductory part of the lesson. And then start the lecture.
Organizational moment: quiz
Without it, the SDA week at school is rarely complete. Quiz-type events should be held after class hours on the topic of traffic rules so that children can test their knowledge gained during the lecture.
To make the game interesting, you need to draw a large field on the board, dividing it into four squares. Each of them will correspond to a certain field of knowledge. For kids it is better to make them as follows:
- Road marking and traffic signals.
- Rules for crossing roads and streets.
- Road signs.
- Responsibilities of passengers.
In each field there should be as many question sheets as how many teams from students turned out. They will need to first be divided and said so that the children choose a captain. In the future, he will go to the board and select the pieces from the blocks. Each of them should have three questions. The “price” of one correct answer is 5 points. Three minutes can be given for solving one leaflet. After the time, the children read out the answers in turn and give questions - the teacher at this moment brings the results to the board. According to the results of the game, when all the sheets are taken apart, all points are calculated and the winner is determined.
Questions for the quiz
They must be such that the children are able to master them. The teacher should do the preparation of questions for this event at the school on traffic rules in advance. Here, for example, which ones will become suitable for the block about road marking and traffic signals:
- Where are people allowed to cross the street?
- What signals does the pedestrian traffic light give and what do they mean?
- How and where should people walk along the street?
- How is the pedestrian crossing marked on the roadway?
- Why is it forbidden to walk on the roadway?
Such questions may well be included in the quiz. By the way, when conducting this event in the school on traffic rules, it is recommended that the teacher ask the responding team why they answered so. Explaining the students will help them to understand whether they have learned the rule or not.
You can enter the following questions in the block on road signs:
- What does a sign prohibiting pedestrian traffic look like?
- What information signs do you know?
- What groups are they divided into?
This is an example. The most important thing is not only to clearly formulate questions, but also to make them informative, relevant to the topic.
Word games
The teacher who is developing the SDA event for elementary school should not have difficulties associated with the selection of exciting tasks that can activate the knowledge acquired by children during the classroom.
Take, for example, a game called "Allowed - Prohibited." Its principle is as simple as possible. The teacher begins the sentence, which imitates an action, and the children complete it, thus giving an answer. Here is an example:
- Play on the pavement ... (prohibited).
- Walking on the sidewalk ... (allowed).
- Cross the road to a red light ... (prohibited).
- Walking through the underpass ... (allowed).
- Jump over the fence to cross the road, because to the "zebra" go too lazy ... (forbidden).
- Cross the road to a green light ... (allowed).
If the children shout out the correct answers, then they learned the lesson they had learned earlier. Are mistaken? So, the teacher needs to pause the game and ask why the children think so. And then explain that they were wrong, and repeat the rule in a more accessible language. Then re-voice the question from the game in order to make sure that the children finally understand the rule. In fact, such an extracurricular activity on traffic rules in primary school brings good results, as it provokes collective interaction.
For high school students
Well, how to conduct SDA activities in elementary school is clear. Now it’s worth talking about the format in which they should be organized for students in higher grades. But first you need to define goals and objectives. Most often, such events are held in order to:
- To form a real understanding of students about road safety.
- To develop their ability to find such a path from home to school and vice versa, which can be the least risky.
- To convey to them more detailed ideas about the rules of movement on the street and road.
- To bring up the correct, respectful attitude to its participants.
- To form a sense of civil responsibility for their behavior on the road.
If the SDA activities in elementary school need to be carried out in a soft and playful way, then in the case of middle-school students more information is needed. It must be noted that ¾ of all accidents (those without victims are also taken into account), according to statistics, occur with children. For clarity, you need to make the following reasons for this to happen:
- Crossing the roadway in the wrong places.
- Failure to obey traffic signals.
- Walking on the roadway (if there are sidewalks) or playing on it.
- Inattention to the situation and inability to look around.
During the lesson, the teacher will have to convey to the children that caution, discipline and compliance with traffic rules (both by pedestrians and drivers) are the basis of safe movement.
Learning diversity
It is worth noting that the action plan for traffic rules in the school can be very interesting and include not only classroom hours, quizzes and games. There are many more options. And during the year it is recommended to translate into reality several of them.
You can arrange walks around the city with schoolchildren, explaining in parallel the rules of the road. Only this relates, rather, to the category of “Events with parents on traffic rules”. At school, the teacher can cope with thirty children, but during the walk you will need "helpers" in the form of other adults. However, it is worth returning to the topic.
After the lectures, you can give the children a task - to arrange a stand according to the SDA. This is a creative and interesting work, in addition, the result will then be hung out in the lobby, and everyone will be able to appreciate it, which also often motivates children.
As part of the literature lesson, students can be given a homework assignment - to learn the “Road Alphabet” in verse. Not all, of course. Just everyone will choose one poem and learn. And in the next lesson, everyone will speak and listen to each other.
Often, the leadership of an educational institution, drawing up an action plan for traffic rules in elementary schools, decides to hold a drawing contest on the theme “Traffic rules are our faithful friends!” This is a good idea, as in the case of the notorious booth. Usually, at the end of the competition, all works are executed in an exhibition, and for students a tour of it is arranged with parallel explanations from the teacher. A good combination of visibility and information.
And for students from the 5th to the 9th grade, a practical lesson on the provision of first aid is suitable. As part of such a useful lesson, children will be able to learn the basics, which certainly will not be superfluous.
Mind games
Such events are held at the school on traffic rules for high school students. The purpose of an intellectual game is to identify and develop the intellectual and cognitive abilities of adolescents, as well as expand their horizons.
Everything goes in the classic format. The guys are divided into teams, sit at tables, each of which has a bell. The facilitator reads out questions and answers. To voice the correct version, in the opinion of the team, the guys should consult. Who is the first to notify the host with a bell - he answers. If the version is correct, a point is counted. If the answer is incorrect, the word is transferred to another command.
Questions may be:
- What group of people are road users? Options: pedestrians, drivers and passengers, or all of the above (correct - last).
- What road element does not exist? Options: parapet, curb, ditch (correct - first).
- How is the overpass different from the flyover? Options: height, width, length (correct - last).
- What is a viaduct? Options: a tunnel in the mountains, a bridge over a gorge or a word that is not related to the topic (the second one is correct).
- What is the name of the asphalt road? Options: highway, highway, street (correct - second).
Questions, of course, need more. The difficulty level should also vary. If you plan to include voluminous questions with long answers in the game, then it will be required that the facilitator be accompanied by visualization. Duplication of voiced on the screen, for example (implemented through the usual pre-prepared presentation and projector).
Such extracurricular activities on traffic rules at school are especially popular, as they contain an element of competition.
Presentations
Their preparation can also be included in the plan of activities for traffic rules in high school students. Here the principle is the same as in the case of kids preparing a lesson from the Road Alphabet. Only students are given topics for short presentations that they prepare on their own.
They can be entrusted with more serious tasks. Topics may relate to driver liability on the road, unregulated pedestrian crossings, traffic in residential areas, speed limits, etc. The adults (11th graders) can prepare a presentation about the victims of traffic accidents, provide statistics, the most shocking cases.
And yet, since now many immediately after school (or even while studying in it) go to get rights, you can organize a lesson for future drivers. Paying, of course, a lot of attention to speed limits. For clarity, you can make a selection of video materials - videos with test drives, which show the process of checking the car for safety. This process involves accelerating the test machine to a certain speed at which it crashes into a wall. Inside is a doll. Such videos will clearly show students that high speed is not a way to get adrenaline, but a high risk.
Well, as you can see, the names of the SDA events at school are very diverse. Games, quizzes, classroom hours, exhibitions, walks, presentations ... there are enough ways to convey to students the importance of traffic rules. The main thing is a competent approach of the teacher, leadership support and interest of students. And then the action plan for the SDA week at school will be implemented with success.