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=Essential Question:= = What is the responsibility of the individual to society? =
 * What is the responsibility of the individual driver to other drivers and pedestrians?
 * How can the individual driver keep himself and others safe?
 * What behaviors do teens engage in while driving that can distract them?

Hook: Get students interested in topic.
Watch Video [4:15] at this site.

Talk: Give students 3-5 minutes to discuss in small groups.
Ask students the essential question. Encourage students to think about their responsibilities to other people when they get behind the wheel.

Survey: Poll Your Advisory Group
Pose these questions to the class, and tally their responses.
 * 1) Have you ever texted (either sending or receiving) while driving?
 * 2) Do you think you can safely text and drive at the same time? Yes or No?
 * 3) Do you think it is ever safe for anyone to text and drive at the same time? Yes or No?
 * 4) What most distracts you when you drive?
 * While students, read independently, enter your group's totals into this Google Docs Spreadsheet.
 * You must be logged in to your school email to access spreadsheet.
 * To type in a cell, click on the desired cell: it should highlight the cell in blue. You can then type in the cell.
 * For the first three questions, enter one number--the total for your advisory group. For the last question, you may enter more than one response from your advisory. Be sure to put the responses in the same cell.
 * Multiple people can enter data into the cell simultaneously, so make sure you're typing on your advisory row.

Read: [[file:Cell Phones and Driving_A Killer Combination.docx]]

 * Read aloud the first few paragraphs, "thinking aloud" as you read.
 * Then, have students read the rest independently.
 * Encourage students to annotate or "mark up" the text, underlining key parts, jotting questions, connections, key ideas in margins.

Talk: Discuss Article
Encourage students to connect personally to the article. You might pose these questions to the whole class for discussion:
 * When you hear statistics that show using a cell phone while driving--whether talking or texting--is a distraction, does it worry you or change your habits?
 * Have you ever lost control of the car, veered into another lane or gone off the road while texting?
 * Have you ever been in a vehicle when the the driver was texting?
 * What other "distractions" do drivers engage in that endanger themselves and others?

Survey: Show Students Results
Display results of survey, and give students time to discuss. Don't forget to refresh the page to update the results.

Closing Activity:
Watch Video [:34]: State trooper videos a real crash caused by texting.