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Public transport teaching resources for primary school teachers
Public transport teaching resources for primary school teachers
Teaching resources
The next lesson you teach could save a life.
Make it fun and interactive with our Aware Wolf downloadable resources including videos, a quiz, jingles and life-lessons made easy. Perfect for primary school children and especially for transition to high school. The Aware Wolf is a superhero with a mission to keep kids safe on and around public transport.
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Aware Wolf – Choose your own safe journey
An activity where students solve various safety scenarios when travelling by public transport to Luna Park.
Health and PE – levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCHPEP107, VCHPEP108, VCHPEP110
English – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: ACELY1699, ACELY1709
Ethical Capability – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCECD012, VCECD013
Critical and Creative Thinking – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCCCTQ022, VCCCTR025
Resources
Download the Choose Your Own Safe Journey – teacher resource (PDF) 894 KB
Download the Choose Your Own Safe Journey – classroom resource (PDF) 6.6 MB
Aware Wolf – Safe Behaviours
An activity where students have to make good choices about safe behaviours in trains and trams and around stations.
Media Arts – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCAMAE029
Critical and Creative Thinking – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCCCTQ023, VCCCTR028
Ethical Capability – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCPSCSO030
Resources
Download the Aware Wolf Safe Behaviours – teacher resource (PDF) 779 KB
Download the Aware Wolf Safe Behaviours – class resource (PDF) 2 MB
Aware Wolf – Safety Jingles
An activity where students make use of free online software to compose a short piece of music to accompany the Aware Wolf jingle.
English – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCELA309, VCELA339
Music – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCAMUE029, VCAMUM030
Media Arts – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCAMAR032
Resources
Download Aware Wolf Safety Jingles – teacher resource (PDF) 798 KB
Download Aware Wolf Safety Jingles – class resource (PDF) 863 KB
Aware Wolf – Safety Quiz
A quiz testing student knowledge about safe behaviours in and around trains, trams and stations.
Health and PE – levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCHPEP107, VCHPEP108
Ethical Capability – levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCECD012, VCECDO13
Personal and Social Capability – levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCPSCSO030, VCPSCSO31
Resources
Download Aware Wolf Safety Quiz – teacher resource (PDF) 835 KB
Download Aware Wolf Safety Quiz – class resource (PDF) 3.5 MB
Being a good commuter
A PTV unit where students consider different examples of social behaviour on public transport, such as not putting feet on seats, leaving access to doors, taking off backpacks when standing, offering your seat, not talking loudly, and explore the impacts of these behaviours on others.
English: Foundation
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCELY125
Ethical capability: Levels Foundation–2
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCECU001 and VCECD002
Resources
Download Being a good commuter - learning sequence (PDF) 678 KB
Download Being a good commuter - signs and symbols resource (PDF) 276 KB
Design dilemma
A PTV unit where students will develop awareness of the needs of diverse commuters on our public transport system. Their focus will be on how commuters can safely travel on public transport, especially with regard to getting on and off – boarding and alighting.
Students investigate the challenges involved in getting on and off transport for users with additional needs, for example commuters in wheelchairs. They identify the specific needs and relate these back to the safe use of public transport.
Design and technologies: Levels 5–6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCDSTS033, VCDSCD038, VCDSCD039 and VCDSCD041
Resources
Download the Design dilemma - learning sequence (PDF) 845 KB
Download the Design dilemma - trains and train station resource (PDF) 741 KB
Design Your Own Safe Platform
An activity where students look for safety features on their opponent’s platform in the style of a ‘Battleship’ game.
Mathematics – Level 5
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCMMG199
Technologies – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCDTDI028
Critical and Creative Thinking – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCCCTQ023, VCCCTM029
Resources
Download the Design Your Own Safe Platform class resource (PDF) 806 KB
Download the Design Your Own Safe Platform teacher notes (PDF) 910 KB
Friction
A PTV unit that explores the science behind using sand for braking for trains and trams, linking students’ experiences with forces and friction and extends to other examples. Examine students’ current conceptions and misconceptions and uses examples of road surfaces for students who are in areas without easy access to trains or trams.
Science: Levels 3–4
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCSSU064
Resources
Download the Friction - learning resource (PDF) 1018 KB
Download the Friction - student resource (PDF) 245 KB
Download the Tram sand sequence (PDF) 606 KB
How do you make a difference?
A PTV unit where students determine what changes they would like to see in public transport. They research who is responsible for that particular area, how decisions are made and how would they make a difference.
Students also review safety information from public transport authorities and create their own advice that targets primary school-aged children.
Civics and Citizenship: Level 5-6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCCCG010 and VCCC015
English: Level 5
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCELY319 and VCELY329
English: Level 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCELY347 and VCELY358
Resources
Download the How do you make a difference - learning sequence (PDF) 1.2 MB
Level Crossing Safety
An activity where students have to recognise and correctly sequence safety features as they approach a level crossing on foot.
Mathematics – Level 5
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCMSP205, VCMSP206, VCMSP207
Critical and Creative Thinking – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCCCTR025, VCCCTM029
Technologies – Levels 5 & 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCDTDI028
Resources
Download the Level crossing safety - teacher resource (PDF) 800 KB
Download the Level crossing safety - class resource (PDF) 1.4 MB
Sustainable travel
A PTV unit where students design and pitch ideas for an app that informs users of the cost associated with various forms of transport. The goal of the app is to give an indicator of the financial and environmental cost of different forms of transport to travel to the same location, building an understanding of the relatively cheaper cost and reduced environmental impact of utilising public transport options.
Digital technologies: Level 5-6
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCDTCD031, VCDCTCD034
Resources
Download the Sustainable travel - learning resource (PDF) 1002 KB
The ad campaign
A PTV unit where students identify and research a public transport safety issue. Using recent campaigns as models, they consider elements such as visual, emotive and figurative language, similes, humour, catchy music and themes and determine the key messages/elements of the campaign. Finally, they create a slogan and key messaging and use it in a persuasive text e.g. a billboard, a series of text messages, a television advertisement.
Level 6: Critical and creative thinking
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCCCTQ023
Level 6: English
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCELA339
Level 6: The Arts, Media Arts
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCAMAP031
Resources
Download The ad campaign - learning sequence (PDF) 1.2 MB
Download the The ad campaign - sample bingo template (PDF) 40 KB
Welcome to Victoria!
A PTV unit where students create a tour pack for a day trip for a family of four who are visiting Victoria and wish to travel by public transport. Students use public transport sites to develop an itinerary that includes a visit to their local area (or if there is limited public transport in their area, to the nearest public transport point). The pack needs to include transport costs, maps and information about the sites they are promoting.
Mathematics: Level 5
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCMNA191 and VCMSP207
Mathematics: Level 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCMNA218
English: Level 5
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCELY329
English: Level 6
Victorian Curriculum Code: VCELY358
Resources
Download the Welcome to Victoria - learning sequence (PDF) 1.2 MB
Download the Welcome to Victoria - student task (PDF) 884 KB