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Published by
Australian Academy
of Science
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Activities | Driver fatigue – an accident waiting to happen
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- 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)
- 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.)
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