Travel Project

The focus of this unit is to integrate Geography & Mathematics lessons enabling students to understand travel factors and perspectives. Students create their own overseas vacation using a range of sources (websites, travel brochures etc.) and gain an understanding of the mathematical processes involved with travel. Students enhance Mathematical skills of calculating, designing, problem solving, estimating, creating budgets, sales & percentages, measurement of time and distance.

You & a friend will be travelling to a destination of your choice & will have a budget of $15 000 to plan a 7 day holiday.

Your job is to think like a tourist planning to visit a country of your choice.  What attracted you to this destination? Why do you want to visit?  When is a good time of year to travel?

You’ll want to know things like when your flight arrives and departs, where to stay, and what to visit.  Like most travelers today, you may only have a mobile phone or other web-enabled mobile device to help you search.  

Brochure Exploration:

Students use travel brochures supplied to have a look at some different countries.

a. In groups students have 2-3 minutes to share with a partner a travel brochure. Students write down some positives about travel in this country.

b. Continue this process swapping brochures until each group has had a look at each brochure of the continents.

c. Students then use this brainstorm to narrow down their choice to one continent/country that they would like to focus upon for their project.

 https://www.mapsofworld.com

Part 1 : Tourism Information

 Now that you have settled on a destination, create an informational text overview in the medium of  your choice (pamphlet, poster, PowerPoint, Prezi etc.) outlining location,cultural traditions & areas of interest about your chosen  country. The information must include maps, photos and diagrams highlighting the country. 

Part 2 : Travel Itinerary

You are to create your dream holiday researching and recording; flight costs, accommodation costs, sales percentages/discounts, activity itinerary, rental car log of distances & daily timetable.

 Part 3 : Travel Budget Plan

Examples of Planning Templates

 Flights & Accommodation

Use laptops/computers to research the cost of flights from Australia to chosen country

a. What flight company will you use?

b. How will you fly? Economy? Business? What is affordable?

c. What is the best deal you can get? When is the best time to fly?

d. What is the total cost of the flights?

      https://www.webjet.com.au/

      www.flightcentre.com.au

     http://www.travelmath.com/

2. Accommodation: Students use travel brochures to find the type of accommodation and costing

a. Where is the best location to stay in your country?

b. Is it central to what you will be doing?

c. How many nights will you stay there?

d. What is the total cost

Part 4 :Transport & Measurement

1. Discuss: What are the different transport options for your country?

2. Transport cost: Find out the cost of transport throughout your overseas holiday.

a. What transport will be used? Bus/car/train etc.

b. Will a rental car be used?

c. What is the total cost of transport?

3. Transport Distances: Fill out a table detailing the distances that they will be travelling with their transport. 

Use Google Maps to track the different distances that they will travel.

Travelling from:

Travelling to:

Total distance in kms:

Extension: Work out petrol costs

https://www.google.com.au

Part 5 Tours/ activities & spending money

Discuss: What activities might people do when they are on holiday?

 Explain that students need to plan one tour/activity for each day on their holiday

 Plan out ideas

 Research: Use computers to find tours and record costs

 Choose budget and spending money

Part 6 Best buys & total costing

Best Buys: You have contacted a travel company who has offered further discounts off your holiday if you book through them. Calculate the total discount for your trip depending on each choice. Work out your answers first then check using a calculator.

Option 1:  10% off all flights & accommodation                                        

Option 2:  25% off all accommodation                                

Option 3  50% off all tours and activities                                                    

- Create a table of the total costs for your trip.

I hope you enjoyed engaging with our journey!  

Please hand in your completed written results or share your Google Doc with me. 

I look forward to reading your itinerary!    

AC Geography : Year 6 A diverse and connected world takes a global view of geography and focuses particularly on the concepts of place and interconnections. Students learn about the diversity of peoples and cultures around the world, the indigenous peoples of other countries, the diversity of countries across the world and within the Asia region. They reflect on cultural differences and similarities, and on the meaning and significance of intercultural understanding. The focus of study becomes global, as students examine Australias connections with other countries and events in places throughout the world, and think about their own and other peoples knowledge of other countries and places. Students  mental maps of the world and their understanding of place are further developed through learning the locations of the major countries in the Asia region, and investigating the geographical diversity and variety of connections between people and places.

AC Mathematics : Year 6 At this year level: Understanding includes describing properties of different sets of numbers, using fractions and decimals to describe probabilities, representing fractions and decimals in various ways and describing connections between them, and making reasonable estimations Fluency includes representing negative numbers on a number line, calculating simple percentages, using brackets appropriately, converting between fractions and decimals, using operations with fractions, decimals and percentages, measuring using metric units, and interpreting timetables Problem Solving includes formulating and solving authentic problems using numbers and measurements, creating similar shapes through enlargements, representing secondary data, and calculating angles Reasoning includes explaining mental strategies for performing calculations, describing results for continuing number sequences, investigating new situations using known properties of angles, explaining the transformation of one shape into another, and inferring from the results of experiments