: Stop - Look - Think
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Approach:One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Interpreting visual information.     
Resources: Road traffic picture.  
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% responses
2000 ('97)
y4
y8
Questions / instructions:
Show the student the picture.

I want you to have a careful look at this picture to see what is happening, and to think about what might happen next.

1. Tell me what is happening in the picture.

2. Try to explain what you think might happen next.

3. What do you think are the risks for the person on the bike?

    
Risks:
considering responses to all 3 questions
cyclist getting hit by purple car when passing parked car or squeezed between both
60
74
door of parked car opening and hitting cyclist
1
6
parked car pulling out and crashing into cyclist
3
3
cyclist hitting pedestrian on crossing
12
19
cyclist stopping for pedestrian on crossing, getting hit from rear by purple car
2
3
dog chasing cyclist
2
1
cyclist hit by oncoming car
4
7
cyclist falling off bike
19
7
cyclist may not be wearing helmet
15
13
vague comment about cyclist getting hit or run over
27
19
Total score:
4–10
2
3
3
7
7
2
31
32
1
52
55
0
8
3
Commentary
Overall year 8 students were very little more able to identify risks than year 4 students. Year 4 students, perhaps understandably, were more conscious of the risk of falling off the bicycle.
 
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