Out and About
Badge Kids course
Out and About
Being out on your own and getting home fine.
- 5 topics
- 17 lessons
- 5 quizzes
Being seen, and knowing who is near you.
Before you go out alone
Being out on your own, and getting home.
Being seen is the job
If a driver cannot see you, nothing else you do matters. Be seen.
Two is harder than one
Agree who you walk with. Nobody peels off without saying so.
The person behind you
Cross the road. If they cross too, go where there are people and staff. Not home.
The car that stops
Never approach a car. Step back, not forward. Walk the way the car is not facing.
- Check what you know
Quiz: The Walk
Bikes, boards and scooters in traffic.
Fit your own helmet
Eyes, ears, mouth. If one check fails, the helmet is not on yet.
A bike on a road
Same direction as the cars. Signal. Look at the driver. Stop means stop.
When a scooter stops being a toy
Nobody on a sidewalk expects you to be moving that fast. Slow down before the blind spot, not after.
- Check what you know
Quiz: Wheels
Getting on, getting off, getting home.
Waiting and riding
Back from the curb. Sit where the driver can see you. Know the stop before yours.
The pickup
Who collects you is agreed in advance. A change by text is not a change.
Your family word
One word. Agreed. Never written down. Nobody collects you without it.
- Check what you know
Quiz: The Bus and the Ride
Staying found in a lot of people.
Sixty seconds on the way in
Pick the meeting point on the way in. Every time. Before anything else.
The first minute
Stay put, or go to the point. Never search. Searching is how two people get lost.
Who to walk toward
You pick who you ask. A uniform, somebody behind a till, a parent with children. You do not wait to be picked.
- Check what you know
Quiz: In a Crowd
The ones who ask, and the ones who help.
Grown-ups ask grown-ups
Grown-ups ask grown-ups. If an adult asks you instead, that is your answer.
The dial, at ten
Read the situation, not the face. Not sure means check. Being wrong costs nothing.
Saying no out loud
You never owe anybody the end of a conversation. Say it, leave, be loud if you need to.
- Check what you know
Quiz: People, Out There