1. Topic-
Transportation and Child Passenger Safety for early childhood providers and caregivers.
 
2. Content-
New early childhood professionals, and caregivers will be provided with basic training on transportation and child passenger safety for child care centers.
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1. Participants will be able to identify health and safety hazards when transporting children.
2. Participants will be made aware of incidents of death or injury due to forgetting or leaving children unattended in a vehicle.
3. Participants will have the resources to have car seats installed and inspected by trained car seat technicians.
 
4. Objectives-
1. Learners will be advocates for child passenger safety.
2. Learners will ensure the safety of children in their care.
 
5. Materials and Aids-
7 in 10 Article, Phoenix Children's Hospital Kids and Cars Website, Every Child Every Trip, every student must have access to the online lesson in its presented format.
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. Learners will take a pre-course non-graded quiz to gage pre learning knowledge.
2. Learners will be given the correct answers at the end of the quiz./
3. After the quiz, learners will watch a pre-recorded lecture from the instructor about transportation safety.
 

B. Development-

1. Online lecture about the dangers of cars; both in motion and parked.
2. Video on transportation and car seat safety
 

C. Practice-

1.Discussion Board topic "What resources do you know of that you can share with caregivers"
2. Discussion Board topic "How can we keep kids safe around cars?"
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Literature Review - Find five articles about the dangers of cars and create a literature review to share with classmates.
2. Non-Graded Quiz - Check in questions based upon assigned article, lecture, and reading.
3. Assignment - Research paper on transportation and child passenger safety.
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

Provide transcripts of all audio based lesson.
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. Discussion post review
2. Non-Graded Quiz
3. Assignment
 

G. Closure-

1. Final exam
2. Reflection paper
 
7. Evaluation-
1. Result of final exam
2. Reflection Paper
 
8. Teacher Reflection-
Review results, learner comments, and lesson, for possible revision.
 

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