Vacation

  What are you going to do when school gets out for the summer? VACATION!! Not many people just want to stay home all summer, but where in the world would you go? What if you were told you could bring about four others on a trip ANYWHERE in the world? However, for you to go anywhere, we need to know how your team will do it and how much it will COST! With your traveling companions, we need to know specifics to get this plan ready for action. Your destination only awaits your plans!

For this webquest, you plan the details of a vacation of your choosing! You get to explain where you are going, when you are going, and how much it costs of course! Just like in real-life, you have to follow your budget or be under it. How you plan and show this, is to give a budget of your expenses using Excel or Google Forms on how you are spending your budget. To make it easy to see where the money goes, your budget sheet must include a visual aspect such as a chart or graph to see the breakdown between priorities and “others”. To show the class where you went and how, your final trip plans will be displayed and presented by you while using Google Tools. The tool is your choice! (drawing, forms, docs…)

You are also given the opportunity to see what happens if you could go over-budget by 1,000$, AND if you had a 1,000$ less due to an accident!

After this project, you should be to demonstrate Mathematical Standard 7-EE, which includes being able to solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive or negative rational numbers posed in any form. 

Also ISTE standard 5B: You should be able to collect or identify relevant data, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem solving and decision making. 

Process.

1) Determine a budget anywhere between 2,250 and 3,000 dollars. Pick how much you think you will need for your vacation budget! Vacation will be four days long including the flight days!

2) Determine where your vacation will be, where do you want to go the most that can fit your budget?

It’s time to research how much this will cost. Things that need to be researched –

Flight plans and costs? (Get prices on round trip flights on one-way flights for each way! Compare!)

Hotel prices at the location? (You are staying for four nights!)

All other expenses for attractions and food. (Food = a minimum of 30$ daily) (Cost of any activities you wish to do, one example.. San Diego Zoo is 45$ for tickets and parking)

Here are websites listed for your vacation, find the best deals!

www.travelocity.com  www.orbitz.com  www.expedia.com  www.tripadvisor.com

1) On your budget sheet (Excel or Google tools) list the prices for your vacation! How much will your vacation cost for the entire stay? How much will your vacation cost on average for each day? Was the best price for two flight tickets or a single one-way ticket? The only requirements for the budget is that you list all expenses, AND whether it is a priority or "want". The format is your teams choosing.

2) Find alternative prices for your vacation now, what if you had 1,000$ extra on your budget? Could you do it with 1,000$ less from your budget? Write up two separate plans on SEPERATE budget sheets. If you don’t think 1,000$ less is possible, then state why so on that sheet.

3) With your group, choose one of your three possible budgeted vacation plans, why would you pick that specific one over the others? What are you missing out on if less money, or what additional are you doing if going with a higher budget?

4) With your chosen plan, find two ways to visually display where your money goes. You may use pie graph, bar graph, or acceptable graphs we have studied in class. As we have studied, it just needs one "pie piece" or bar section for each type of expense such as flight expenses in your visuals.

5) Now time to make a presentation on your vacation using Google tools (drawing, forms, or slides). You need to include pictures, your graphs, budget, and what you are doing on vacation. BE creative, how can you present this to make it interesting?!

6) On the end of your presentation, state what you have learned throughout the vacation planning (did anything surprise you). Were there any hard choices? Did your destination make it a hard trip to plan? If you could plan a new vacation what are the top things you would change?

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