Postcard

Sample Announcement for School Based Announcement System

At any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving. In fact, 10% of the drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported at distracted at the time of the crash. Next week we are conducting a series of events as part of a project entitled LifeSaver Mobile: Be a Hero. LifeSaver Mobile is an app that locks teens out of their phones while driving. Participate in our Lifesaver Mobile BE A HERO week and help put an end to distracted driving. Pledge to drive without distraction! Download the Lifesaver Mobile App to prevent you and your loved ones from driving under the influence of cell phones!

Insert details about your game, rally, and banner signing events!

Sample Banner Advertisement for Online Media

Flyer

Sample Tweets

All language may be copy and pasted into your own Twitter page! Statist ics were found on distraction.gov

Texting while driving makes a driver 23 times more likely to crash! #BeAHero At any given daylight moment across the U.S., 660,000 drivers are using their phone while driving. Don’t be one of them, #BeAHero 5 sec. is the average time your eyes are off the road and on your phone. That’s enough time to drive down a football field blindfolded An average of 822 deaths per day are due to texting while driving – 25% of all fatal crashes. 100 followers = 100 heroes = hundreds of lives saved! Follow us to learn about the dangers of distracted driving, as well as information about when our upcoming events are! #TeamFollowBack

One of the best ways to engage your fol lowers is by using visual media to attach to your tweet! The following infographics can be used to emphasize your main points! (Just make sure to tag the source!)

Credit: Ankin Law Office LLC Credit: Distraction.Gov

Logo for a banner

A great way to connect with your student body is by hosting a banner-signing event during lunch, after school, or any other t ime when students get to mingle during the school day. You can use this logo to create your own banner for students to pledge to Be A Hero!

Other Tips for Social Media Savvviness

Create your own graphics! Websites such as picmonkey and canva offer easy, free platforms and templates for simple graphic design.

Schedule out your tweets in advance! Sign up for a Hootsuite account to plan daily tweets for certain times. This is a great way to implement a statistic per day campaign!

Create a school-specific hashtag to track your community and engagement. Be sure to favorite and retweet posts that mention your campaign!

We pledge to drive without distractions!

List of resources for speakers

Hosting an assembly with a distraction driving speaker is a great way to engage your student body in the cause. Several organizations provide speakers, most free of charge, to a school based event. Below is a list of speakers and nonprofits, their websites, and a sample email template you can use to reach out.

EndDD – End Distracted Driving; enddd.org

StopDistractions – stopdistractions.org

WHNT News (Alabama) - http://whnt.com/2016/08/29/request-a-distracted-driving-speaker-from-whnt-news-19-for-your-school/

Jennifer Smith, Distracted Driving Advocate - http://www.jennifersmith-distracteddriving.com/About_Jennifer.html

Hang Up and Drive – hangupanddrive.com

Chad Hymas – chadhymas.com

Amanda Reconstructed – amandareconstructed.com

Impact Teen Drivers – impactteendrivers.org

SAMPLE EMAIL Dear ___: My name is ____ and I attend _____. We are excited to host a promotional week of fun activities dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. In connection with our program, we would like to invite a speaker from your organization to address students at an assembly/meeting. We envision the speaker would speak for ten to fifteen minutes, followed by a 5 -10 minute question and answer session. If your speaker has a video or power point to share we would be happy to arrange audio visual equipment for him/her. I would be happy to discuss additional details with you and look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you so much!

Best,

____

PowerPoint

Take your campaign to the next level and directly impact the next generation of drivers! Reach out to your Driver’s Education classes and ask to present on the dangers of distracted driving. This PowerPoint can be used and accessed through this l ink!

Game instructions

Hosting games for students is an awesome way to interact with your student body and reinforce how driving safely can be FUN! Here are several games to implement during a school ral ly, special assembly, or class activity!

The leader of the game plays the “stop light”. The goal for the participants is to reach the stop light.

At the start, the participants form a line about 25 feet away from the stop light.

The leader/stop light faces away from the participants and calls out “green light”. When the participants here “green light” they move towards the stoplight.

At random point, the leader/stop light may calls out "red light!" and turns around. The participants must stop before the leader turns around. If the participants are caught moving after the stop light turns around they are out.

The leader continues to call out red light and green light until either everyone is out, or participants reach the red light.

The purpose of playing this game is to demonstrate the quick reaction times necessary when operating a motor vehicle.

Three identical courses are set up across the floor. The type of obstacles in the course may include:

§ Lay down a board for a balance beam § Make a line of hula hoops and jump from hoop to hoop § Jump over soft pool noodle hurdles (prop the noodles below knee-height on two

overturned buckets or boxes) § Pulling a wagon along a twisty garden hose or sidewalk chalk path § Riding a tricycle or scooter § Set-up plastic cones for a classic weaving drill § Zig-zag through a slalom course of hats, shoes, or whatever else you can find § Walk heel-to-toe in a straight line

Divide the participants in to three teams. Each participant participates in the obstacle course in both directions. After they have completed the second direction of the obstacle course they tag their team member and their team member then moves through the obstacle course.

The three teams will be set up as follows:

Team One: will not have any distraction props

Team Two: will carry a book and must look down at the book the entire time

Team Three: will wear swim goggles that have been covered over with marker so that vision is impaired.

Most frequently Team one will win the race.

The purpose of this relay is race is to demonstrate that Team One, with no distractions, is able to navigate the obstacle course more successfully than the teams who are burdened with distractions.

Sample cards

Hand outs are one of the best ways to reinforce your message and remind people to download the LifeSaver Mobile app and Be a Hero! These cards can be printed out and passed out at all of your events and around the school.

Sample press release

Once you’ve put in all the hard work to deliver a successful campaign, local media outlets and your school distr ict should know about your accomplishments! Below is a sample press release for you to publish upon completing your campaign. Plus, publicity means that this truly deserving cause continues to be recognized.

For immediate release

Description This week, students from _________participated in a series of events sponsored by LifeSaver Mobile: Be a Hero.

Impacts on the Community Students now have a better understanding of the implications of distracted driving.

LifeSaver Mobile is an application designed to deter drivers from using their phones while driving. Drivers can download the application from the App Store or Google Play. Additionally, they can link their phones via a driver’s portal and earn rewards and incentives via LifeApps LLC.

Banner signing event

During lunch, students were invited to Be A Hero and sign a banner pledging to drive without distractions.

Driver’s Ed Presentation

Students immersed themselves in a lesson plan designed by LifeSaver Mobile: Be a Hero that heightened their awareness of distracted driving’s prevalence.

Games

Students played relay games and red light green light that simulated distracted driving.

Red Out

Each school hosted a “red-out” and students received candy and hand outs in honor of the cause.

Video Testimonial

In the spring of 2015, George C. Marshall High School conducted a tr ial week featuring concepts presented in this resource packet. Student and faculty testimonials can be viewed in the following Youtube video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtvlD6ZxSU