Driver fatigue – an accident waiting to happen
Activities
New South Wales Higher School Certificate Online (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Driver fatigue – students are given facts about driver fatigue and asked to develop a list of strategies to minimise it.
Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (Australia)
Too tired to drive? – students complete a driver fatigue checklist.
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (USA)
Sleeping and driving don't mix – provides a 10-question 'true-false' quiz about sleep. Students submit answers to the website and receive an explanation of each correct answer.
Neuroscience for Kids (University of Washington, USA)
Biological rhythms – presents five activities relating to circadian rhythms and biological clocks: 'The ups and downs of body temperature', 'Rhythms all around', 'Built in stopwatch', 'Built in alarm clock', and 'A yawner'.
Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, USA)
Sleep disorders – a tutorial about sleep, sleep needs and sleep disorders. A simple true and false question follows each section.
National Institutes of Health, USA
Sleep, sleep disorders and biological rhythms – five activities on sleep rhythms, sleep disorders and driving: ‘What is sleep?’, ‘Houston, we have a problem’, ‘Do you have rhythm?’, ‘Evaluating sleep disorders’ and ‘Sleepiness and driving: What you don’t know can kill you’.
Center for Biological Timing (University of Warwick, UK)
Classroom activities – suggests a number of activities to investigate biological rhythms. (Note: These activities were developed by the NSF Center for Biological Timing.)
Page updated March 2006.