Travel and public transport skills unit for Life Skills and Pathways
Resource Description
Your high school life skills, transition and pathways students will love using this full travel and public transport skills unit, with a journey plan, map skills, timetable activities and problem solving in the community.
They will:
- learn about types of travel in their community
- plan a simple trip to a familiar or less familiar location
- find information about destinations
- plan a trip
- organise their belongings
- allow enough time for their trip
- participate in a travel activity with support
- practise using maps, timetables, online information and journey planners
- learn when and how to ask for help
- reflect on their experiences and learning
What's inside?
The resource includes:
- A complete learner guide (60 pages) including age appropriate information, activities and assessment tasks to help students learn to plan and participate in a travel activity in their local community with support and guidance.
- A full marking guide with benchmark answers for all questions and assessment tasks
- A mapping document to guide you in the assessment of the unit
How does it work?
Give students a copy of the learner guide. Work through the learner guide information and activities as a group or in small groups. Have students complete the ongoing activities and learning tasks in the guide as well as the final assessment tasks at the end of the unit.
Use the marking guide to help you mark each learner guide - there are benchmark answers to help you.
Use the mapping document to check what is covered in each of the activities and assessment tasks.
Who is it for?
The travel and public transport unit is ideal for:
Transition Education students
Vocational students
Pathways students
High school life skills groups
Adult general education