Driving/Safety

**WELCOME** - This is a new section to the Transition Library. Recently purchased library materials will be highlighted in red for the first six months of use.  Materials may be ordered anytime.

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D/S 18 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.  Teaching Your Teens to Drive DVD.  AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2004. Teens $29.95.

Helping teens become safe, knowledgeable drivers takes time, patience and proven tools.  Teaching your teens to drive comes with an illustrated in-car handbook and a live-action 56-minute video that instructors may incorporate into any driver education course. Can be used with D/S 17.

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D/S 17 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.  Driver-ZED 3.0 Computer game. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2005. Teens. $29.95 Win XP/Vista

An aggressive tailgater. A busy highway work zone. A child chasing a ball into the street. These are just a few of the many situations in which a bad decision—or indecision—can lead to tragic consequences.  Driver-ZED 3.0, an engaging, innovative and entertaining DVD helps teens learn how to identify and manage these types of risks.  Featuring live-action video, Driver-ZED puts teens to the test in 100 highway, city, country and work zone scenarios.  The program features over 25 animated tips on important driving topics, such as zero tolerance laws and night driving.  A game for new drivers and their parents.

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D/S-16 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.  Signs, Signals and Markings DVD. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2006. Adults, English and Spanish. $19.95.

Learn about the underlying rules and logic behind traffic control signs, signals, and lane markings, and the importance of obeying signs to drive safety.

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D/S- 15 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.  Preventing Road Rage:  Anger Management for Drivers DVDAAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2006. Adults $19.95

 Violent aggressive driving, or “road rage,” is a major public concern. Learn how to avoid offending other drivers, manage your own anger, and disengage from an angry encounter. Illustrated with exciting footage of on-the-road encounters between angry drivers, and personal anecdotes from real people who have reformed themselves by practicing anger management techniques demonstrated in the program.

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D/S-14 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Driver Education Volume I and II DVD. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2005-2006. Adults $39.95.

Learn active scanning techniques, reduce the risks of sharing the road, follow others at safe distances, and merge onto multilane highways smoothly and decisively, handling weave lanes and exits.  This compilation DVD contains four titles:  Freeway driving, Managing space and time for safe driving, Sharing the road, and Using your eyes effectively.  All which are specifically recommended by the American Driver & Traffic Safety Education Association model education curriculum. Volume II includes six popular videos:  Driving in bad weather, Breaking the accident chain of events, Night driving, Getting safety past the orange barrels, Unlocking the mystery of antilock brakes, and Dangerous crossings:  a second thought.

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D/S-13 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.  Just  Another Saturday Night DVD. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2009. Teens/Young Adults. $14.95 

A night of revelry turns tragic when a popular college-bound student takes the wheel after several drinks.  Dramatizes the events and decisions leading up to a drunk driving tragedy. Courtroom dialogue encourages further discussion about the personal and legal consequences of drinking and driving.

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D/S 12 UL Appliance Safety Quiz. VHS Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. Grades 7-12

What do you do when an appliance falls into water? What’s the first thing you do when you purchase an appliance or receive one as a gift? How do you purchase an extension cord? The answers to these and 10 other electrical safety questions are provided in this program. Order this video and have your students check out their electrical safety I.Q. VHS 25 minutes

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D/S 11 Mowing Rules….Safety Rocks!  VHS Video Placement Worldwide.

This VHS helps teach important mower safety do’s and don’ts tp protect people when working around lawn mower equipment. This video is presented by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute. 18 minutes.

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D/S 10  Electrical Safety Tips with Safety Man. VHS Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

This VHS helps tach important electrical safety do’s and don’ts to protect people in their  home.  After a visit from SafetyMan, an elementary student and her friend help explain electrical safety rules to her middle-school aged brother and her mother. Safety tips include:  never reach into water to get an appliance that has fallen, never run an electrical cord under a rug or carpet, never staple or nail an electrical cord to the wall, baseboard or other object, and never overload an electrical outlet. 13 minutes, 1995

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D/S 9  Becoming SafetySmart – 1: Avoiding Hazards & Preventing Accidents. Becoming SafetySmart 2:  Getting Emergency Help.  James Stanfield Company, Inc. 1996

Teaches your students:1) how to avoid injuries at home, 2) basic pedestrian safety, 3) transportation safety.  2 – DVDs.

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D/S 8  The Video Basics of Kitchen Safety and Organization. The School Co.

Designed for the beginning student from square one, these videos feature specific, practical, how-to techniques on organizing the kitchen and keeping it safe.  Ideal for students of all ages, the videos use graphics to illustrate major points.  Includes: 1) cleaning the kitchen, 2) general kitchen safety, 3) kitchen organization, and 4) safe food storage.

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D/S 7 Princess Company, Ltd.  Introduction to Kitchen Safety Manual and Video. The School Company, 1989.

This manual and video will outline the basic guidelines necessary to operate a clean, safe kitchen.

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D/S-6 Motorcycle Safety Foundation. Riding Straight DVD. Motorcycle Safety Foundation. $22.50 

Explains how stress, fatigue, alcohol and other drugs impair a motorcyclist’s skill and judgment. Includes consequences of DUI conviction and tips for preventing others from riding impaired. 12 minutes.

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D/S 5 Nebraska CDL Course.  Advanced Tech Courses. ($95.00)

A resource to prepare you for your Nebraska CDL examinations.

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D/S 4  Drinking and Driving: A Crash Course. Cambridge Educational.

In the past decade, four times as many Americans died in drunk-driving crashes as were killed in the entire Vietnam War.  By serving up a variety of sobering statistics like the one above, this video provides a ¡∫crash course¡Ö on the perils of drinking and driving.  In addition, two separate dramatizations involving Bob and Marcy take the viewer along on their high road to handcuffs as they are arrested for Driving Under the Influence.  The video also trashes some common myths about drinking alcohol, demonstrates a number of visual signs that people exhibit when DUI, closely examines WHY so many people take the drunk-driving risk, and uncorks some costly facts about driving while intoxicated.  For those who, one day, might meet a potential drinking-and-driving situation head-on…..and that means ALL of us this video is definitely one for the road!

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D/S 3 In the Driver’s Seat.  PCI Educational Publishing.

This is a comprehensive driver’s education program written at a reading level of 3.0-4.5.  This complete easy-to-use program is designed for teenagers and adults who are reading below grade level but have the ability to become safe drivers.  Help students master the basic skills and concepts taught in driver’s education classes.

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D/S 2 S.A.L.T. Group, LLC, 2002 Nebraska State Driver’s Manual Audio Tapes & Practice Tests

The Driver’s Manual audio tapes and practice materials will be a help in preparing to take the Nebraska Driver’s examination.  Five practice tests are included along with an answer key.

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D/S 1 S.A.L.T. Group, LLC,  CDL Driver License Manual on Audiotape.     5 tapes.

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