Transportation safety in the classroom

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Middle school students design transportation safety posters in health class.
Safe Routes to School has created two multi-day education units on health and transportation safety. Each unit features an interactive PowerPoint presentation that covers crash prevention, road etiquette, traffic laws, and how to ride transit.
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Transportation Safety: Unit One

Three-day education unit on health and transportation safety. This unit features an interactive PowerPoint presentation that covers crash prevention, road etiquette, and how to ride transit.

Unit One PowerPoint Presentations:

  • Active transportation & public spaces overview
  • Different types of safety
  • Tools for your personal security
  • Benefits of active transportation
  • We are all pedestrians
  • Crosswalk laws and tips for success
  • How we roll: Transit
  • Oregon laws for human-powered vehicles
  • All about Portland streets
  • Crash prevention

Unit One Presentation PDFs:

If you cannot access or download the Powerpoints above, use these PDFs as an alternate option. They will only show the slides without animations, but include teacher notes. 


Unit One Instructor Resources:


Unit One Handouts:


Transportation Safety: Unit Two

Three-day education unit on health, transportation, and climate. This unit features another interactive PowerPoint presentation in a similar style to Unit One. The first day reviews much of the information from the first unit.

Unit Two PowerPoint Presentations:

  • Principles & Benefits of Active Transportation: Review
  • Test your knowledge Jeopardy game
  • How we roll: Transit review
  • Communication styles: Review
  • Introduction to bystander intervention
  • Transportation & climate change
  • Climate action
  • Transportation & the media

Unit Two Presentation PDFs:

If you cannot access or download the Powerpoints above, use these PDFs as an alternate option. They will only show the slides without animations, but include teacher notes.


 Unit Two Instructor Resources:


Unit Two Handouts: