Learning with PhotoImpact

Useful Internet Resources

• Teen Driving
• Driving Safety for Teenagers
• Alcohol and teen Driving
• How’s My Driving
• Avoiding Collisions

Materials

• Materials for teacher’s lessons on safe driving habits and good decision making when behind the wheel
• Print, multimedia and Internet resources for student research
• Computer with a word processor, Internet access and Ulead PhotoImpact software
• Materials to create a graphic layout
• Blank CDs/DVDs
• Presentation equipment

McREL National Content Standards Addressed

Health

• Std.7 – Knows how to maintain and promote personal health
  Level IV, Benchmark 2

Life Skills – Self Regulation

• Std. 3 – Considers Risks
  Level IV, Benchmarks 1-3

Life Skills – Thinking and Reasoning

• Std. 6 – Applies decision making techniques
  Level IV, Benchmarks 4, 6

Procedures and Approximate Times for Completion

1. The teacher gives lessons on safe driving habits and good decision making when driving. (2 hours)
2. Student teams conduct their research, and synthesize the resources they collected. (2 hours)
3. The teams will create their oral report. (1 ½ hours)
4. The teams will construct a graphic layout for their multimedia poster. (1- 1 ½ hours)
5. Students incorporate their graphic and photographic resources into PhotoImpact, and create a multimedia poster. ( 1 hour)
6. The teams present their multimedia poster and oral report to the class and answer any questions. (About 5 – 7 minutes per team)

Assessment
The following site has a wide variety of rubrics that you can look at in order to help you design a rubric that will meet your needs.

• Select from a Variety of Rubrics from MidLink Magazine at http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html
• You may also want to have your students reflect upon their projects and address the following in writing:
  • In what ways will what you have learned from completing your project, and seeing/hearing other team projects, affect your driving habits?
  • Do you feel having the different teams multimedia posters shown to others at your school, along with presenting their oral reports, is an effective way to reach other teens, and why or why not?