Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

the playground. As the boys and girls walk around, they sing songs about their car. make right and left hand signals, start and stop, and use many other rhythmical activities. Later on this experience is carried over to the miniature highway, where they walk around tlie course making proper hand signals and observing highway signs. Under the careful guidance of the teacher first, second, and third-graders learn how to operate toy cars on a simplified table-top course, which is a miniature highway. .After the table-top experience, a scaled down model car is brought into the ilassroom. The car is known as the "Phoetiix Trainer." The children learn the necessary nomenclature, including bumper, fender, wheels, hocKi, tires, headlights, stoplights, etc. The car is then blocked up and each child takes his turn learning how to operate the steering mechanism, giving hand signals, and using inoti\e power. When he is able to follow the teachers' instructions reasonably well, a thrilling and exciting moment has arrived — a temporary driver's permit is issued which entitles him to apply his clas.sroom experience on the beginners' course. On the beginners' course the children demonstrate their ability to operate the scale model cars. They must observe traffic signals, pedestrian rights, and rules of the road. Traffic officers are placed along the various routes of travel to heljj guide the young motorists. .Another important step in learning arrives when the primary drivers graduate from the beginners' course to the advanced course. For the first time they encounter divided highways, oneway streets, parallel and angle park AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS FOR SAFETY EDUCATION The following materials are used in the Phoenix Primary Driver Education Project 16mni MOTION PICTURES Bicycle Sofety (Young America Fil Bus Driver (EBFilms) Courtesy for Beginners (Coronet) Fatol Seconds (Aetna Life Insuroni Let's Be Sofe at Home IPortafilms; Let's Ploy Foir (Coronet) Let's Ploy Safe (Portafilms) Let's Shore with Others (Coronet) Live and Let Live (Aetna) Our Community (EBFilms) Ploy Safe (Progressive Pictures) Policeman (EBFilms) Safe Living at School (Coronet) Safe on Two Wheels (Aetna) Safe Use of Tools (Coronet) Safety on the Street (EBFilms) Safety to and from School (Young America I Street Sofety Is Your Problem (Young America) Talking Cor (Frederick K. Rocket Co.) We Ploy ond Share Together (Pau Burnford) You and Your Bicycle (Progressive FILMSTRIPS ms) Bicycle Safety (Eye Gate) Busses at Work (Curriculum) Democratic Living (Johnson-Hunt) Let's Stop and Go Safely (Portafilms) Safe Way to School (Jam Handy) Safety at Home (Eye Gote) Sofety ot Ploy (JohnsonHunt) Safety at School (Eye Gate) Safety at School and at Ploy (Young America ) Safety on the Playground (Eye Gate) Safety to and from School (Eye Gate) Safety on the Street (EBFilms) n"xl5" STUDY PRINTS Police Department (27 prints, Marguerite Brown) Tronsportotion (20 prints, Bailey) CHARTS Safety Everywhere (Everyday Safety Charts, A. J. Nystrom) ing, dangerous curves, "do not enter" warnings, etc. In addition to the experiences the children are having driving the cars over the network of scale model highways, they are increasing their knowledge in the area of general safety through the u.se of many types of enrichment materials — films, filmstrips, study prints and charts (see list above). Behind most success stories are unsung heroes and Garfield's Primary I^river Kducation Project is no exception. Much credit goes to Officer Jack .Ashley of the Phoenix Police Department for his untiring efforts. Officer .Ashley confronted the new car dealers of Phoenix with the vitally important problem of securing scale model cars adequate for the project. The upshot of it was that the new car dealers joined forces and purchased the necessary pedal-powered cars made by Austin of England. Ashley's next step was to design and lay out the miniature courses, including the beginning and advanced courses. This project was turned over to the Traffic Engineering Division of the City of Phoenix. The results were amazing. Under the direction of the late Captain Wayne Morris, Head of the Tralfic Engineering Department, black tops at the Garfield .School became a network of modern city streets and highways. Operation Table Top (left) : Mrs. Sue Misenhimer, second-grade teacher, directs two of her children as they learn how to operate toy cars on the miniature highway. Operation Trainer (right! : This child is learning how to manipulate the foot pedals and steering mechanism ot the "Phoenix Trainer." Mrs. Bennett is giving instructions on how to give hand signals. (Photographer: A. A. Berlutil September, 1954 273