Introduction
Several years ago, the school board did away with senior trips. This year's seniors have money in their account and want the school board to change their mind about senior trips.
Task
Your task will be to research the benefits of taking a senior trip. Convince the school board that it will be safe. Tell where you want to go, how long you plan to be gone and how much it will cost.
Process
There will be five tasks. The class will be divided up into groups and each group will be assigned a task. For tasks 2 3 and 4 websites suck as: www.expedia.com, www.priceline.com and www.travelocity.com.
Task 1: Research the benefits of taking a senior trip and put it in report form on a google app so that others can add to it. You may put in your opinions to persuade the school board. The report must have at least five benefits.
Task 2: Decide on the destination of your trip by narrowing it down to 3 destinations and having classmates respond to a survey to determine the favorite place. Then determine whether to take a bus or plane and research the cost of each and make a cost-comparison chart.
Use the following website to do your survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Task 3: After deciding the destination, research the cost of a hotel.
Task 4: Determine what the class wants to do at the destination and find the cost of those plances. Also, estimate how much each person is going to have to bring on his/her own if there is not excess money to cover the cost of meals and spending money.
Task 5: Compile the information in the research and create a powerpoint with all the information that you have researched and present it at the board meeting. After determining how much money still needs to be raised, if any, create a handout for both the board members and each class member showing an itinerary for the trip and how much each person is responsible for.
Watch this video: http://ed.ted.com/on/75xFPQ2q and answer the questions at the end of the video to help you prepare for the presentation.
Evaluation
Task One, Two, Three and Four
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40-50 points |
30-39 points |
20-29 points |
10-19 points |
0-9 points |
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Student participated in research with the group and used the google app |
Student participated in the research, but didn’t use the google app |
Student participated minimally. |
Student gave ideas, but wouldn’t actively participate |
Student did not participate at all |
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Student participated in research with the group and used the google app |
Student participated in the research, but didn’t use the google app |
Student participated minimally. |
Student gave ideas, but wouldn’t actively participate |
Student did not participate at all |
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Student took a turn to speak during the presentation |
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Student did not speak during the presentation |
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Student had good eye contact during the presentation |
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Student had minimal eye contact during the presentation |
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Student did not make eye contact with the audience during the presentation |
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Student used a nice loud and clear voice during the presentation |
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Student spoke out but spoke too fast to understand.
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Student didn’t speak out and was difficult to understand. |
Conclusion
Reflect on your webquest. Is there anything you would have done differently? Rate yourself on your webquest. What grade would you give yourself?
Teacher Page
Janis Pershing
Special Education Teacher
Speech/Language Implementer
Bunker R-III School