The exciting resource enables students to address concerns they have about streets around their school, while participating in learning from the AusVELS curriculum. Student-led and inquiry-based, you and your students will enjoy working inside and outside the classroom.
The Class Walkability Project has 5 components:
- Understanding walking and walkability: Students learn the importance of walking, the meaning of the term 'walkability' and how to recognise things that are good and bad for walking in a street or neighbourhood.
- Walkability where I live: Students reflect upon and may investigate things that are good and bad for walking near to where they live.
- Our walking audit: Students learn how to formally assess (audit) an area's suitability for walking, and plan for and undertake an audit of a street or route related to the school.
- Taking action for walkability: Using information from their audit, students identify the factors that make the assessed location unsuitable for walking, and develop and deliver an action plan to make improvements.
- Celebrating and sharing our project: Students celebrate their success and share the story of their Class Walkability Project.