Secondary curriculum resources

Free lesson plans for Years 9-13 written by top teachers and educators. Align safe travel contexts to New Zealand Curriculum learning areas. Includes NCEA assessment resources.

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

Road safety worksheets

Convenient bite-sized lessons that are easy for teachers to use. Critical and creative thinking for Year 9-10.

Driver licence NCEA credits

Students who obtain Class 1 driver licences can earn credits towards NCEA.

AutonoMate: Future of Mobility (Digital Tech)

Digital Technologies, Social Studies and English. Enable Year 9-10 students to collaborate on a design thinking project that models the challenges and opportunities of emerging mobility technologies.

Curriculum resources for young people to learn about keeping safe around trucks on New Zealand roads. This resource is designed for use in Years 1-10 (redirects to listing in primary curriculum resources).

Digital Technologies

Students interview stakeholders, and then create a digital media presentation to increase audience awareness of safer road use.

English

Lesson plans by Karen Spencer enabling young people to think and act like citizens about a context that matters. Create persuasive texts, critical reading, produce creative writing and analyse aspects of visual or oral texts.

Health (driving and medication impairment)

Curriculum resource for NCEA Level 3 supports students to analyse medication impaired driving as a New Zealand health issue.

Health and PE (bike riding)

These Health and Physical Education resources provide opportunities for students to get involved with riding bikes and promoting bike riding.

Literacy and numeracy using the road code

Use the official New Zealand road code to integrate learning for citizenship within broad contemporary social issues around safer road use in New Zealand.

Mathematics and Statistics

These Mathematics and Statistics curriculum resources allow students to use data sets to investigate road safety contexts. Supports the statistical enquiry cycle and trigonometry.

Open data for student projects

Your students can work with quality data about New Zealand’s transport system via the Waka Kotahi Open Data Portal.

Science

Physics concepts are applied through technology as students explore topics such as how we use forces to make vehicle crashes survivable.

Social sciences

This project will walk students and teachers through the process of designing a solution to an issue within their transport community.

Visual Arts

Students can use visual literacy for maximum effect when designing safe travel messages aimed at their own generation.

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