Your Turn is designed for use by year 8 and 9 teachers and subject specialists working together to provide strong, relevant learning opportunities about decision making for safer, greener, more active travel.

Your Turn will be available at all South Australian schools with years 8 and 9 students. It has five units. Each unit includes several topics with teaching objectives, learning outcomes and activities for lesson planning. Column notes provide suggestions for resources, assessment strategies and extension activities. For effective use of Your Turn in your school, refer to the section titled Teaching Your Turn in the resource.

Linking in with South Australia's curriculum

Supporting resources

The Highway 35 TV commercials were produced by year 9 and 10 students at Keith and Lucindale Area Schools in South Australia’s South East.

They are referred to in Your Turn as supporting resources for several teaching and learning activities.

Title : Straight roads	Title : Overloading
Message : Straight roads kill Drop your guard and your dead	Message : This is a community announcement The overloading of commercial utilities may result in performance standards that fall outside the manufacturer's specifications.

 

Linking in with South Australia's curriculum

The content of Your Turn aligns closely with several Learning Areas in the Middle Years Band of South Australia’s current curriculum.

Your Turn classroom strategies for safer, greener, more active travel incorporate an explicit focus on Curriculum Scope, principally through the Learning Area of Health and physical education in the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability (SACSA) Framework.

The teaching and learning content encourages an integrated approach to planning and knowledge building, based on the principles of constructivism. It requires the implicit inclusion of skills development in information literacy and information and communication technologies (ICTs); and a cross-curricular emphasis on environmental sustainability and indigenous content.

Your Turn content is linked to Standard 4 - the Middle Years Band of the SACSA Framework, through the following curriculum Learning Areas.

South Australia’s current curriculum

Health and Physical Education
Physical activity and participation	Outcome : 4.2
Personal and social development	Outcomes : 4.3, 4.5
Health of individuals and communities	Outcomes : 4.6, 4.7
Society and Environment
Time, continuity and change	Outcomes : 4.1, 4.3
Social systems	Outcomes : 4.10, 4.11
English
Strategies	Outcomes : 4.9, 4.10, 4.11
Design and Technology
Designing	Outcomes : 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Making	Outcome : 4.4
Mathematics
Exploring, analysing and modelling data	Outcomes : 4.1, 4.2
Science
Energy systems	Outcomes : 4.3, 4.4