Drivers+Ed

"The learner will . . ." || **Standard(s)** || **No. of Days** || **Vocabulary Terms** || **Resources** || **Student Learning Activities** || **Assessment** || **Language Arts Standard(s)** || Spanish Handbook; Resource Book, Skills and Applications Workbook, Tests and Activities || Text, Resource Book || Chapters tests # 1,2,3,&4 Unit 1 Test ||  || Spanish Handbook, Resource Book, Skills and Applications Workbook, Tests and Activities || Text, Resource Book, Videos || Chapter tests # 5,6,7,&8 Unit 2 test ||  || 13 Unit 3 test ||  || Unit 4 test ||  || Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) || Sections 1-7, pages1-65 || 100 question test over Driver's Manual ||
 * Teachers **** : ** (Mr. Prasch) (Mr. Jackson)
 * Textbook: ** (__Drive Right__, Scott Foresman Addison Wesley, 2000)
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 * **Obj #** || **Unit** || **Objective:**
 * 1 || The Driving Task || The students are intoduced to the driving task, including social, physical, and mental skills. Students will learn the meanings of various traffic signs, signals, and roadway markings. They will learn the purpose of vehicle instruments, devices, and controls; proper procedures for starting, moving, and stopping a vehicle and ways to use the IPDE Process with the Zone Control System and the Smith System to increase driving safety. ||  || 10 || collision, defensive driving, driving task, graduated driver licensing program, highway transportation system, IPDE Process, risk, Smith System, vehickle code, Zone Control System, advisory speed limits, basic speed law, flashing signal, full stop, guide sign, international symbols, minimum speed limit, pedestrian signal, regulatory sign, right of way, right-turn-on-red, roadway markings, rumble strips, school zone, shared left-turn lane, traffic signal, warning sign, yield, alternator warning light, antilock braking system (ABS), blind-spot area, clutch pedal, console, cruise control, hazard flasher, head restraints, ignition switch, odometer, central vision, closed zone, commentary driving, compromise space, execute, field of vision, ground viewing, 4-6 range, line of sight, minimize a hazard, open zone, orderly visual search pattern, path of travel, peripheral vision, predict, scanning, separate the hazards, space cushion, target area, target area range, traction, 12-15 second range, zone || Companion,
 * 2 || Controlling Your Vehicle || The learner is introduced to factors involved in controlling the vehicle. Students will discover how natural laws affect car control. They will learn how to perform basic vehicle maneuvers and negotiate various kinds of intersections safely. They will also learn how to interact safely with motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians, and other roadway users. ||  || 10 || active restraint device, banked curve, blowout, braking distance, center of gravity, energy of motion, force of impact, friction, gravity, passive restraint device, perception distance, perception time, reaction distance, reaction time, restraint device, total stopping distance, tread, angle parking, hand-over-hand steering, oversteer, parallel parking, perpendicular parking, personal reference point, push-pull steering, reference point, standard reference point, turnabout, understeer, controlled intersections, controlled railroad crossings, crossbuck, delayed green light, fresh green light, gap, point-of-no-return, protected left turn, stale green light, traffic circle, uncontrolled railroad crossing, unprotected left turn, moped, motor scooter, no-zones, protective equipment, recreational vehicle, tractor trailer, tractor-semitrailer || Companion,
 * 3 || Driving in Different Environments and Situations || The student will learn how to drive safely in various environments and conditions. they will learn about the skills needed when driving in urban areas, rural areas, and on expressways. They will learn how to drive safely under adverse driving conditions, such as poor visibility and poor roadway surfaces. Students will also learn what to do in driving emergencies, such as vehicle malfunctions and collisions. ||  || 10 || cover the brake, overtake, ride the brake, tailgate, advisory speed sign, median, pull-out area, runaway vehicle ramp, slow-moving vehicle, switchback, acceleration lane, common speed, controlled-access highway, deceleration lane, entrance ramp, exit ramp, highway hypnosis, merging area, velocitation, wolf pack, controlled braking, fishtail, hydroplaning, overdriving headlights, rocking a vehicle, skid, blowout, brake fade, counter-steer, jack, lug nuts || Companion, Spanish Handbook, Resource Book, Skills and Applications Workbook, Tests and Activities || Text, Resource Book, Overheads || Chapter tests # 9,10,11,12,&
 * 4 || Being a Responsible Driver || The students will learn and focus on how emotions affect driving. They will also learn the physical abilities needed for safe driving and how physical limitations can affect driving. Students will learn to make special efforts to control the effects their emotions have on their driving abilities. ||  || 7 || emotion, carbon monoxide, color-blindness, depth perception, emotion, glare recovery time, glare resistance, night blindness, speed smear, tunnel vision, visual acuity, road rage || Companion, Spanish Handbook, Resource Book, Skills and Applications Workbook, Tests and Activities || Text, Resource Book, Overheads || Chapters 14,15,16,17,&18
 * 5 || NE Driver's Manual || Promotes public safety through education and the regulation of drivers and motor vehicles, and to collect revenues that provide resources for state and local government operations. ||  || 3 || All the above || Nebraska Driver's Manual || Nebraska Driver's Manual, www.clickmv.ne.gov

= Valentine Community School Driver Education Wiki = = = Week 2 - Ch. 3, "Basic Vehicle Control"; Ch. 4, "Managing Risk with the IPDE Process" Week 3 - Ch. 5," Natural Laws and Car Control"; Ch. 6, "Performing Basic Vehicle Maneuvers" Week 4 - Ch. 7, "Negotiating Intersections"; Ch. 8, "Sharing the Road" Week 5 - Ch. 9, "Driving in Urban Traffic"; Ch. 10, "Driving in Rural Areas" Week 6 - Ch. 11, "Driving on Expressways"; Ch. 12, "Driving in Adverse Conditions" Week 7 - Ch. 13, "Handling Emergencies"; Ch. 14, "Effects of Driver Condition" Week 8 - Ch. 15, "Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Driving"; Ch.16, "Buying and Owning a Vehicle" Week 9 - Nebraska Driver's Manual, Review and driver's test || Repeat 1st Quarter || Repeat 1st Quarter || Repeat 1st Quarter ||
 * Week 1 - Ch. 1, "You Are the Driver; Ch.2, "Signs, Signals, and Roadway Markings"

Course_Driver Education_ Grade Level 8 Chapter or Unit Title Drive Right - Chapters 1-16 ; NE Driver’s Manual __ Planned Time Needed for Instruction __ __ 9 weeks __ __ ** ================================================================== ** __

__ Brief Description: The students will review each chapter and take a chapter test on each. There is a unit test about every fourth chapter for the first 12 chapters. Each chapter test is worth 27 points and unit tests are 40 points each. At the end of the quarter, the students will read and review the Nebraska Driver’s Manual and take a 100 question test over the manual. __

Drive Right __ Units and Chapters:

Unit 1, “The Driving Task” Chapter 1 - “You Are the Driver” Chapter 2 - “Signs, Signals, and Roadway Markings” Chapter 3 - “Basic Vehicle Control” Chapter 4 - “Managing Risk with the IPDE Process”

Unit 2, “Controlling Your Vehicle” Chapter 5 - “Natural Laws and Car Control” Chapter 6 - “Performing Basic Vehicle Maneuvers” Chapter 7 - “Negotiating Intersections” Chapter 8 - “Sharing the Roadway”

Unit 3, “Driving in Different Environments” Chapter 9 - “Driving in Urban Traffic” Chapter 10 - Driving in Rural Areas” Chapter 11 - “Driving on Expressways” Chapter 12 - “Driving in Adverse Conditions” Chapter 13 - “Handling Emergencies”

Unit 4, “Being A Responsible Driver” Chapter 14 - “Effects of Driver Condition” Chapter 15 - “Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Driving” Chapter 16 - “Buying and Owning a Vehicle”

Nebraska Driver’s Manual