Targeted for upper elementary and midlevel grades, this project provides students with opportunities to explore risks involved in daily activities.
Students learn how to engage in risk analysis on a personal level and make decisions accordingly.
This project fosters the development of critical-thinking skills and provides students with an opportunity to look at issues from multiple and empathetic perspectives. Illustrate the critical differences between basing decisions on facts versus emotions. Students form teams by selecting an activity of interest, for example in-line skating, walking to school or riding a bike without a helmet. Each research team prepares three products summarizing the results of their study. The products include a risk report posted in the classroom, publication of the study on a school Website and a class presentation.