TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD

Introduction

Welcome, everyone!

In this WebQuest, 10th-grade students will become familiar with other countries, cities, and cultures and will write a blog entry as a famous blogger. There will be sponsors who will support their expenses with a budget (15.000 Turkish Liras + flight tickets). The visit is limited to four days. 

Introduction

You as a blogger are sponsored by a travel magazine to visit wherever you want to see with a limited budget. You have 15.000 Turkish Liras and a round trip ticket. Your visit is also limited to four days. After your visit, you need to write a blog to be published in the magazine. If your luggage is ready, let's fly to the Task section! 

 

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Task

Welcome to your new WebQuest!

Fasten your belts, guys! You are flying to wherever and whenever you want.

You will choose a city that you want to visit and discover its culture, cuisine, historical places, museums, special events, and weather on your own in four days with a limited budget (15.000 Turkish Liras). You will be given a group of acceptable websites to discover the points of the target city mentioned in the previous sentence. After your discovery of the city, you will write a blog with a set of pictures to be published in your blog and the magazine. You will publish your blogs on Padlet.

While deciding where to go and what to do, keep the currency of the target country in mind. 

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Process

Please go to the Evaluation section so that you consider what you are being graded on. 

Step 1

The first thing to do is that decide where you want to go and what you want to do in order to introduce the city to readers of the magazine. After you decide, you should exchange Turkish Liras into the currency of the target country to be able to track your expenses beforehand.

Step 2

In this step, you should ask the questions below for your blog.

  • What do I already know about the target city and how will this help me?
  • What do people want to know about the city that I will visit? 
  • What type of information does a good blog have?

To get some idea about the travel blog, check out one of the travel blogs below, and read two entries from the blog that you choose.

Step 3

Before starting to plan your vacation, watch the video below. You may want to take notes on major points that are useful for you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdLeFD0CC0&ab_channel=TessFlorio

Step 4

Now, you may start planning on your vacation. You can see the list of the links below the page. These links are ONLY websites that you can visit to complete your whole task.

Required Information for your blog:

  • Capital City:

  • Population:

  • Type of Government:

  • Currency:

  • Exchange Rate - examples 10 ₺(TL) = X(Euro)

Other Required Information:

  • Give two worthy recommendation for your readers to experience or visit when they are in that city. Tell us about why it is important to experience specific places/things (food, drink)/adventures.
  • Introduce the city and its cuisine, museums, historical places, touristic areas, entertainments, fests, traditions, popular shopping items.
  • Inform the readers of the best time to visit that city. Tell us about the climate and the weather.
  • Make sure that you have an itinerary to follow.
  • You may give more recommendations.

Websites to use:

 

Step 5

Now, you may begin to work on your blog. Write your blog entries into Padlet. 

The link for Padlet. https://padlet.com/tugbademiray1/p1rn2j5yg5klexhr

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Evaluation

 

          Beginning

                1

       Developing

               2

    Accomplished

              3

      Exemplary

              4

Score

 

Information Content

 Blog lacks 4 or more of the required elements that were outlined in the assignment. The blog has some of the required information but is lacking 3 elements that were outlined in the assignment The blog has most of the required information but lacks 1-2 elements that were outlined in the assignment. The blog has all the required information outlined in the assignment.  
Budget The budget is not complete or does not attempt to stay with the 15,000₺ budget. The budget is made, but there are some errors in calculation, some important costs that have been neglected, or a combination of both. A budget that justifies most of the expenses that will occur on the trip with a few calculation errors and only a few unaccounted items. A complete budget that stays within the 15,000₺ budget and accounts for almost all possible expenses that may occur on the trip.  

Mechanics

(Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation)

 Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors. Almost no grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors No grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.  
Multimedia Students either did not have any multimedia or had multimedia that did not relate to their itinerary. Students had multimedia, but it did not seem to illustrate the itinerary as well as it could have.  The multimedia used were good examples of some of the itinerary points, but there were a lot of aspects about the trip that could have used a multimedia presentation The multimedia illustrated the most important aspects of the itinerary and was engaging and interesting.  

 

 

 

Conclusion

Congrats!

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Having completed this Webquest, I think you have an understanding of how much work it can be to create a good itinerary and how to budget a trip! The skills that you learned through this Webquest are definitely helpful as you go through life.

Now, be prepared to present what your itinerary was and how much you spent. You will need to discuss your country and what you have learned about the city.

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Credits