Chapter 1: Introduction to Aggressive Driving and Road RageGoal 1: The learner will be able to describe the difference between aggressive driving and road rage.
IntroductionGet Attention The lesson will begin with images of newspaper clippings of aggressive driving stories fading in and out. Simultaneously, sad, dramatic music will be playing in the background. After the last newspaper clipping is displayed, a slideshow will begin. The slideshow will illustrate detailed biographies of the victims of aggressive driving and road rage, and describe how their lives have been affected. Arouse Interest and Motivation; This lesson will be presented as a humorous animated narrative by a talking-head style “Trucker” character. The Trucker (Truk) will present all the content as a monologue. The monologue will be supported by descriptive visuals when appropriate. For example, if Truck is defining aggressive driving, or talking about statistics, he does not have to be visible; an aggressive driving incident or animated charts can be displayed as he talks. Truk will have the following characteristics:
Before Truk introduces himself, he will show two animated movies. He will first show the example of aggressive driving…perhaps a driver speeding while weaving in and out of traffic and blowing his horn. Next he will present the example of road rage…perhaps one driver forces another driver off the road into a ditch, gets a baseball bat, and jumps into the ditch to finish the job. After Truk shows the two examples, he will then establish himself as an ex-road raging aggressive driver who’s been there and done that, who’s brandished a tire iron or two in the past. He’s recently been sentenced to community service for disorderly conduct and part of his service is to help others change their attitudes about aggressive driving. Now that Truk’s aggressive driving days are behind him, the city thinks he’s qualified to help others. His purpose in this lesson is to enable the learners to tell the difference between aggressive driving and road rage. His strategy for doing that is to:
BodyRecall Prior Knowledge At this point, Truk asks the learners if they’ve ever thought about the difference between aggressive driving and road rage. He also asks them to recall past news broadcasts or newspaper articles they may have seen about aggressive driving. He explains that news anchors and journalists often use the concepts of aggressive driving and road rage interchangeably, and cause the public to think they’re the same thing. Focus Attention The learner will be presented with a display of six images that will alternate between aggressive driving and road rage. For the first sequence, Truk will say, “This is aggressive driving” for the first image and “This is road rage” for the second image. For the next four, he’ll say “aggressive driving”, “road rage”, “aggressive driving”, “road rage”, corresponding to the appropriate image. Each image should be very humorous and illustrate the major differences between aggressive driving and road rage. The aggressive driving images should be, 1: Windshield view of an angry driver blowing his horn, 2: Overhead view of a car passing on the shoulder, and 3: Overhead view of a car flashing its headlights. The road rage images should be, 1: One car crashing into another car with the “crasher” brandishing a tire iron, 2: Two men fighting in front of two wrecked cars with smoke ascending from the wreckage, and 3: Two cars at a stoplight with the driver of one car beating on the second car with a golf club; the driver of the second car appears fearful in behind the steering wheel. Truk will exit and a user interface populated with text will appear. Present Information Here, we will formally define aggressive driving and road rage, and explain the difference between the two. Implement Learning Strategies; Next we’ll give the learner an opportunity to practice by asking them to develop a concept tree. “Difference Between Aggressive Driving and Road Rage” will appear at the trunk of the tree. The tree will then branch into two categories, “Aggressive Driving” on the left, and “Road Rage” on the right. There will be three empty slots underneath each category. The learner will have a randomized list of characteristics of aggressive driving and road rage, and will drag the characteristics into the empty slots of the corresponding category. After the learner populates all the slots, s/he will click the “Done” button. If the learner fills the aggressive driving and road rage slots with the correct characteristics, the tree will bloom after s/he clicks the “Done” button; otherwise, the tree will wilt. If the tree wilts, the aggressive driving characteristics will turn blue, and the road rage characteristics will turn red. Also, a text message will be displayed that will explain the color coding, and explain that the blue characteristics don’t involve violent criminal behavior, but the red ones do. ConclusionSummarize and Review Truk will return to conclude the lesson. He will restate the definitions of aggressive driving and road rage, and restate the differences between two. The definitions and differences should be paraphrased. Transfer Knowledge; Here Truk will explain how the information in this lesson applies in the real world. He will ask the learner to examine the accuracy of the next news broadcast or newspaper article about aggressive driving or road rage. Did the story exhibit characteristics of aggressive driving, or road rage? |