Discuss the importance of wearing your seatbelt including making sure you use all parts of the belt, don’t share a seatbelt, wear it every time you are in the car and always sit in the back seat.

Discuss the importance of being a good passenger by ensuring everyone is buckled and keeping distractions to a minimum.

Discuss appropriate safety restraint use as a passenger and ways to communicate best practice to others (public transportation, rideshare and personal vehicle).

Discuss the importance of riding with others ensuring you know what an “experienced” driver is and the importance of not riding with anyone who has been drinking or using drugs.

Identify best practices of occupant safety (not being a distraction in the vehicle, normalizing booster seats and seat belts, and driver awareness in work zones, school crossing, etc.).

Compare ways to reduce and/or prevent injuries related to vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians etc.

Discuss the importance of using seat belts while being a passenger to protect from injury or death.

Describe how the presence of certain elements increases or decreases the risk of injury (seat belt decreases, distracted driving increases).

Demonstrate best practices while occupying a vehicle (e.g., distracted driving, impaired driving, seat belt safety, appropriate seating arrangement, and pedestrians).

Summarize actions to take to protect oneself against risks to injuries related to vehicles, bikes, and pedestrian etc.

Identify best practice occupant safety in public transportation, rideshare, and personal vehicles.

Explain increased potential of injury when employing high risk behaviors while operating and occupying a vehicle (e.g., distracted driving, impaired driving, seat belt safety, and pedestrians).

Explain the four levels of the Tennessee Graduate Driver’s License Law.

Identify common street/traffic signs and have students practice what they are instructing within the classroom.