Secondary curriculum resources

Resources for schools and teachers with students in year 9 and above to plan teaching and learning aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum.

NCEA level 1 and 2 assessment resources are included. These have been certified by NZQA and have the Quality Assured Assessment Material trademark.

Vision

As a result of learning using these road safety resources, secondary students will be knowledgeable and confident road users. They will be actively involved in making journeys around their community safer.

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Case studies of resources in use

The New Zealand Curriculum Online has published four case studies, which discuss what junior secondary students learnt during the trial of NZTA curriculum resources in: mathematics and statistics, visual arts, English and science. Here's the link or click on the image below for a PDF with shorter versions of the case studies, taken from the NZTA newsletter to schools.

 

 

  • Secondary Case Studies

    Read case studies of teachers and students in NCEA English, Art and Design Year 9 -10, Science Year 9, and English Year 9 - 10 using NZTA curriculum resources.

  • Road Map - Road Safety resources for secondary school communities

    This booklet guides teachers to available resources to integrate road safety into curriculum learning areas, strengthen whole-school procedures, and work with community partners to create safe practices and environments. Tables summarise research findings into effective road safety education, and learning outcomes and processes for young people are described. Case studies show good practice in New Zealand schools

  • Art and Design

    In these units, students explore concepts of students personal safety and the safety of those around them while being a road user. The units have an over arching plan and separate collections of downloadable and editable lesson plans for Years 9 - 10.

  • Digital Technologies

    This unit aligns to the technology practice strand of the curriculum. Students will interview stakeholders about knowledge of risks to safe road use, and then create a digital media presentation to change audience awareness about being responsible road users. Lessons include brief writing, concept development, production and evaluation. The presentation could be a movie, motion graphic, animation or presentation.

  • Digital Technologies

    Internal assessment resource for Achievement Standard 91073: Implement basic procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome.

  • Drama

    This series of lessons allows Year 9-10 students to create and deliver performances about road safety scenarios of their choosing. Included are lesson plans for mime, radio drama, dance and improvisation, plus an overarching unit plan.

  • Drama – NCEA Level 2

    Internal assessment resource for Achievement Standard 91214: Devise and perform a drama to realise an intention. This activity requires students to devise and perform an original drama based on a theme or topic that arises from a study of ‘Safer Journeys, making the right decision on the road’. The drama could be from the perspective of a pedestrian, on-looker, passenger or driver in a car. This is a Quality Assured Assessment Material certified by NZQA.

  • English

    In this unit, students explore ways in which our actions, and those of others, in and around cars have consequences for all of us. Students consider their own car journeys and create a persuasive text (visual/oral/written) to highlight the importance of making sensible decisions.

  • English - NCEA Level 2

    Internal assessment resource for achievement standard AS 91107. This activity requires students to analyse aspects of a short oral and/or visual text(s) that has been designed to educate young people about keeping themselves, and their peers and family, safe in cars.

  • Health and PE

    In this unit, students explore how they can influence their local environment to make it safer for physical activity such as walking, running and cycling.

  • Health and PE - NCEA Level 1

    Assessment resource for Physical Education NCEA Level 1 Achievement Standard 90969: Take purposeful action to assist others to participate in physical activity.

  • Health and PE

    Internal assessment resource for Achievement Standard 91237: Take action to enhance an aspect of people’s well-being within the school or wider community.

  • Mathematics

    In this statistics unit, students use the Problem, Plan, Data, Analysis and Conclusion (PPDAC) enquiry cycle to carry out a comparative investigation of stopping distances under different conditions. The lesson plans and student workbook guides teachers and students through the steps of the statistical enquiry cycle. Students will develop an understanding of the importance of applying appropriate following distances to suit driving conditions.

  • Media Studies

    Internal assessment resource for Achievement Standard 91250: Demonstrate understanding of representation in the media.

  • Physics – NCEA Level 1

    Internal assessment resource for Achievement Standard 90936: Demonstrate understanding of the physics of an application. In this assessment activity, students must prepare a report on the physics involved in applications for crash avoidance or crash protection and explain how the phenomenon works in this context. This is a Quality Assured Assessment Material certified by NZQA.

  • Science - Road safety

    This series of lessons allows students to meet achievement objectives at Level 5 of Science – Physical World in The New Zealand Curriculum. Problem solving, experiments and activities help students develop conceptual understanding of force and motion through the context of technologies used for road safety and safe stopping.

  • Visual arts – design

    Internal Assessment resource for NCEA Level 2 Achievement Standard 91315: Develop ideas in a related series of drawings appropriate to established design practice.