IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
Car accidents are one of the main problems public health faces worldwide. In Cali this is one of the main causes of deaths amongst teenagers and young adults. According to “Annual Analysis of accidents and Mortality due to Car Accidents” in Cali, in 2016, out of 319 deaths, 44% of these happen between the ages of 14 to 34 year olds; and after studying the hours in which these happened and the causes, 62% happen at night time and because of high speeding and alcohol. This newsletter was presented as an invitation to the project, which our students to inquire about the traffic rules in Colombia, the previous newsletters, news reports in the country’s newspapers and insurance companies, such as SURA.
FORMULATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
The strain point started when
questions such as:
• Is it because there is no
education on traffic rules?
• Are adults and young people
really taking a course on road
safety education?
• Are parents not being conscious
enough when they give their
children a car without having a
license?
SOURCES OF PROBLEM
The common thread to the answers of the questions were found in the traffic code law 33 of 2002, that says: … “It is mandatory to teach the traffic rules and road safety rules in Pre School, Elementary and High school.” But not many schools comply with teaching the road safety project because of many issues discussed in the presentation:• Infrastructure (not enough space to construct a traffic safety educational
park in the school)• Price (the price of constructing and designing a traffic safety educational
park is $5.000.000 COP).• Curriculum ( teachers focus on other topics)• Lack of leadership from the schools, amongst others
In our city there is only one traffic safety
education park and a group of people from that
office who goes to the schools in order to give
information and workshops about this. Which
makes it almost impossible to get an appointment
with the park or even to get them to visit our
school; for this reason and considering the
school’s infrastructure and after a brainstorming
session, our students in 9th grade from the
Cañaverales International School proposed to fully
adapt the car track in preschool (Pic. 2) into an
educational traffic safety park for the children in
preschool and elementary. And also in order for
this one to be available as a service to other
schools as part of the CAS in the IB Program.
Understanding the nature of the problem
A series of activities w ere carried out by them:1. Collect funds for the construction of the road park2. Parent-student activities with the students in Kindergarten.
3. Painting the park as part of a collaborative project.
4. Designing and printing the traffic road signs for the park.
5. Inviting the preschool and elementary children to get to know what
the park is and its usefulness.
6. Invite children from other schools to get to know the proposal.
7. Create a blog about traffic rules.
SERIES OF ACTIVITIES
COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE ROAD PARK
Candy selling activity on Valentine's Day to collect money
Conection. Activities with the students
in Kindergarten
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Observe the surroundings in order to identify if there is road signaling inside the park
Make students aware of the need to create traffic signals within the park that allow a safe and
adequate mobility.
Gabriela: Without signscollisions can occur.Ma. Antonia: There may beaccidents and injuries.
Ma. Isabel: There are no
traffic signals here
Jean Carlos: They are causing traffic! Concepts:
Cause -
Function
Activity:
Concept:
Function
Skills: To Know,
Identify, Cooperate.
Diego A.: It means there is a gas station
nearby
Ma. Antonia: The blue ones are
informative.
Jean Carlos: Let's put the red
ones together, those are the
ones that indicate danger.
Alejandro: It means
you can turn over
there.
InvitationACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Observe and classify traffic signals according to their function.
To sensitize the students on the importance of this entity, as it regulates vehicular and pedestrian
circulation
Invitation
Function:
Road safety.
Gabriela: There it says the teachers' parking lot
Martín:Ahhyes, right there is another yellow caution
Jean Carlos: I have already seen
this sign in the street.
Shara: The red ones are the danger
ones.
Julián: The blue ones announce an
important place, like a Gas station
Diego A:It means do not blow
the horn, kids at school.
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Take a tour of the school to identify the traffic signs
that there are here.Differentiate the function of traffic signs
Research
Martin: Stop, stop, because If you
don’t, I will give you a ticket and take
the skateboard.
Lucía: He got a ticket because he
was going very fast, which is
forbidden.
Our traffic office
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Investigate the functions of traffic and transport offices and traffic agents
To sensitize the students on the importance of this entity, as it regulates vehicular and pedestrian
circulation
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Build means of transportation using recyclable materialIntegrate parents and children into collective and
creative work by building means of transportation
Visit of innovative
experts
Demonstration
Skills:Develop fine
motor,
cooperation and
communication.
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Adapt the park of preschool with the respective signage to assure the vehicular and pedestrian
mobility.
Understand the importance of tracking traffic signals and road safety.
Demostración
Skills:Cooperate, Adopt various roles in the group.
Alejandra: Why was he penalized? Juan José: Because he was going in the wrong direction of the road
Martín: Look at the sign!!!! Gabriela: Doctor, A wounded
person!!
Representation
ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Adapt the preschool park with the respective signs to ensure road mobility.
Understand the importance of tracking traffic signs and road safety.
Create a blog about traffic rules.
http://valentinatunjo.blogspot.com.co/
http://isabelapenar.blogspot.com.co/
SEÑALES PREVENTIVAS
SEÑALES DE TRÁNSITO INFORMATIVAS
Invite children from other schools
to get to know the proposal.
The impact in the community is evidentin the happiness of the little childrenwhen they arrive at our school andthey see the traffic park and we explainto them the signs do the role playinggame where play the roles of the trafficpolice officer, the motor vehicleofficials and the pedestrians. We reallyfelt awesome doing this job since weare contributing to the building of apositive social behavior by teaching theIB attributes at a very young age.
We invite 13 pre-school schools andreceive letters from other schools thatwant to visit us.
Evaluation of Impact
The traffic educational park has beenreceived with great excitement by ourstudents (see video 2) “It was a long timeneeded Project in this community and inour school particularly” was a generalcomment among the parents. From allpoints of view the opinions have beenvery favorable. The Little children havereceived the park with joy and interest astheir new playground. In middle school itis now being used for various socialstudies projects. It is only the beginningfor this great Project, from now on, it willbe used not just for teaching traffic sighs,types of lines painted in the roads, butalso it makes us as a community, feel acommitment to protect and preserve thepark, and use it with the futuregenerations.
We can see how important this project hasbeen for them when we see them ride in thecar with their parents and they are explainingtheir parents what each one of the trafficsigns means and the importance of followingthem. They have started telling their parentsnot to go through a red light. Our students arenow the traffic controllers and regulators,playing a role in the city that was vacantbefore. Middle school and high schoolstudents are the most conscious ones when itcomes to road safety. They claim that beforedoing his project they thought they knewwhat road safety was, now they definitely feelsure that they know the importance it has.
In the children,
For our group
It has been quite an experience to be able to help andmake a significant contribution to a life threateningsituation that we experience daily in our city. This parkis an infrastructure that can have a significant value anduse for our community preventing accidents anddeaths that are happening every day in Cali. We arevery conscious of the need we have to educate ouryouth because they are the ones replicating of theseeducation in their Elder. We will keep this Project goingas an activity linked to CAS and an ABP Project forkinder. In primary it was taken by the area of socialstudies as a compulsory subject in all grades, and inmiddle and high school it will be retaken withworkshops in all the grades as well. We are very happyabout having had this opportunity and dearly thankRenault for stimulating and promoting this King ofprojects.
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