Using Cd-Rom for Injury Prevention Education

We will develop and evaluate an injury prevention curriculum that employs interactive multimedia teavailable through CD-ROM. The curriculum will provide the early elementary school child (Grades 1-3)venues and problems to be solved. We will use point of view and full motion video, multiple decisionscenarios to develop a replayable adventure game that emphasizes injury prevention and is suitable fgroup. A Children's Advisory Panel will assist in determining recognizable venues and characters forwill identify content (injuries, hazards and venues), develop the concept and approach, script the pprototype curriculum module on CD-ROM that focuses on pedestrian and bicycle behaviors. The educatiofeasibility of testing a multimedia curriculum package in schools will be determined as the module wquasi-experimental design in after-school programs with early elementary aged children.