Health and Physical Education: Levels 7 to 10

The TrackSAFE Education website offers modern and historical rail safety videos as well as various rail safety posters. It also presents facts about train speeds and frequencies, as well as personal and social effects of dangerous train travel. 

Health and Physical Education: Levels 7 and 8

A TrackSAFE Education unit on how to be a safe, active and responsible citizen on and around the rail network. The resource focuses on identifying the hazards and the hazardous behaviours and influences, such as emotions and peer pressure, that may impact the decisions young people make on and around the rail network.

Health and Physical Education: Levels 9 and 10

A TrackSAFE Education unit on how to be a safe, active and responsible citizen on and around the rail network. The resource focuses on identifying hazards, pedestrian and crowd behaviour, emotions, bullying and peer pressure that impact on the decisions young people make.

Resources

Access the Health and Physical Education resource - Level 7 & 8

Access the Health and Physical Education resource - Level 9 & 10

Visit the TrackSAFE Education website

A PTV unit where students explore the science behind and the impact of heat on rail lines. The unit examines the physical changes resulting from high temperatures and explores the engineering and technological measures in place to mitigate the impact of heat-affected lines. Students design a poster, web page or other communications to educate young people about the topic.

Science: Levels 7 and 8

Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCSSU104, VCSSU096

Resources

Download the Heat changes everything - sequence (PDF) 964 KB

Download the Heat changes everything - rail line student activity (PDF) 330 KB  

Download the Heat changes everything - track structure and maintenance resource (PDF) 232 KB

Download the Heat changes everything - suggested online resources for rail expansion student activity (PDF) 41 KB

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. 

Critical and Creative Thinking: Level 7

Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCCCTQ034

Ethical consequences: Level 7

Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCELA370, VCELY387

The Arts - Media arts: Level 7

Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCAMAR038

Resources

Download The ad campaign - learning sequence (PDF) 895 KB

Download the The ad campaign - sample bingo template (PDF) 40 KB

Drama: Levels 7 and 8

A TrackSAFE Education unit using the concept of rail safety and the setting of the rail network to explore character, roles and situations with a particular focus on bullying and the bystander effect. Learning opportunities for students include scripting, performing and revising their own drama.

Drama: Levels 9 and 10

A TrackSAFE Educationunit using the rail network to explore the characters, situations, viewpoints and actions that occur in this setting with a focus on how to behave safely on and around the rail network. Learning opportunities include scripting, performing and revising a drama performance as well exploration of the use of body, voice, movement and space to strengthen performance.

Resources

View the Drama Levels 7 and 8 TrackSAFE resource

View the Drama Levels 9 and 10 TrackSAFE resource

A PTV unit where students create a brief for an app to plan and book their journey on public transport, including a safety feature. Students create a set of design specifications, including illustrations, to show functionality.

Digital Technologies: Levels 7 and 8

Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCDTCD041, VCDTCD043

Resources

Download the Travel safe sequence (PDF) 3.6 MB