Driver Education Project


MANDATORY DRIVER EDUCATION PROJECT - 100 POINTS

NOTEBOOKS - VIDEOS - POSTERS

You may select from topics listed below and find a newspaper magazine clipping. Tape or glue the clipping on a piece of paper
into your notebook and title above showing the topic it covers. Videos may also be done on various topics (i.e. changing a tire,
etc.).

1. Examples: Newspaper: Paper - Sun Times - Jan 5, 1998

Title: "Seat Belts" - Topic #2

2. List a Table of Contents: Car Safety Features - Topic #1

Law Enforcement - Topic #3

3. Things not to include in the notebook:

a. No car ads

b. No Shell Answer Book Articles

c. No Textbook Articles

d. No Rules of the Road Articles

e. No Foreign Travel Articles


Ten of the following list of topics may be included in the notebook: 

1. Car Safety Features other than seat belts and air bags.

2. Seat belts and/or air bags

3. Law Enforcement: police/courts/traffic, safety/radar violation

4. Car economy gas mileage, etc.

5. Car pollution

6. Engineering improvement in roads/signs and signals

7. Driving and emotions or personality

8. Alcohol/drugs and driving

9. Insurance on automobiles

10. Bicycles, motorcycles, mopeds

11. Maintenance, tune up, tires, brakes, shocks, etc.

12. Buy a new or used car

13. Travel trips - vacations - must relate to automobiles

14. Changing licensing age to 18 or any article on driver education

15. Weather conditions in relation to driving

Where to find information: Sunday Chicago Tribune - Sun Times - Special section or any other newspaper. The Library has
books, magazines and newspapers. Vertical file - pamphlets. A project must be turned in or you will fail the class.