Recommended: 5 th grade Lesson Plan Road Trip! Learning elements Contributes to these Educational Standards Supports these CRLs Reading, Thinking, Math, Geography, Data Accuracy, Teamwork, Scheduling, Summarizing, New Tech Reading, Geography, Math, Teamwork, New Tech Problem Solving, Communication, Teamwork Learning Environment requirements: Central focus space to set the stage. Individual work space to perform the exercises. Flip chart, blackboard or overhead device to demonstrate examples. One copy of Road Travel exercises per learner. Let s take a trip! Let s travel to different locations throughout the United States, and detere our route via the highway system. Later, each learner can select a set of locations to discover, plan a route, a schedule, and summarize in a trip itinerary. Introduction The exercise exposes the learner to the US highway system, points of interest throughout the United States, and expects the learner to detere distances, estimate travel times, set a schedule, and summarize in an itinerary. Learners can work on these exercises as a group or as individuals, and the teacher can elect to have them present their results to the rest of the class. The teacher can provide the exact locations of the points of interest, or encourage the learners to look them up prior to planning the route. 2009, Clackamas Community College, Project SHIFT. Grant funded through the President s High Growth Job Training Initiative, US Department of Labor s Employment and Training Initiative, July, 2009
Objective Time (utes) Teaching Points Supplies Vocabulary Words #1 Track the travel locations from a trip plan. 10-20 Per Example Trip exercise, demonstrate how to take the list of travel locations, arrange it into a logical sequence, detere the travel time, and present it in a summarized itinerary. Travel map Example Trip exercise #2 Given a set of travel locations, plan a trip by arranging the order of the travel locations. 10-30 Encourage each learner or team to select one of the lists on the Road Travel exercise and arrange the order of the travel locations. Road Travel exercise #3 Calculate the travel time and detere the daily route. 5-10 Encourage each learner or team to calculate how long it will take to travel the route. #4 Produce a trip itinerary to summarize the overall trip plan. #5-Optional, if exercise is done in groups-present trip itineraries Total: Encourage each learner or team to summarize the 10 travel plans and schedule into a trip itinerary. Opportunity to practice presentation skills, and let 30 the classroom see a variety of planning trip locations throughout various highway routes. 35-105, depending on whether the learners look up the locations and whether they present their trip to the rest of the class 2009, Clackamas Community College, Project SHIFT. Grant funded through the President s High Growth Job Training Initiative, US Department of Labor s Employment and Training Initiative, July, 2009
Road Travel Exercise-Example Trip Imagine that you and your family are taking a road trip to visit several points of interest across the United States. Let s plan a trip! 1.) Present the list. Review the following list of travel opportunities. We are planning to sing at a concert at each city, one performance per city. We will take a bus, and drivers will be provided, so they can share driving responsibilities to avoid driver fatigue. 2.) Check the locations on a map, and arrange a logical order to visit each attraction, to result in the shortest overall route. List : Logical Order: Highways: Miles / 50 mph Time to allow 3 days-travel, San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay I80 990/50=19.8 hr sleep, sing, tour San Fran. Kansas City, MO Salt Lake City I80 to I25 530/50=10.6 hr 1 day-travel, sing Denver I70 680/50=13.6 3 days-travel, sleep, sing, Denver sightseeing Salt Lake City Kansas City, MO I70 250/50=5 hr 1 day-travel, sing New Orleans St. Louis, MO I55 730/50=14.6 hr 3 days-travel, sing, sleep, sightsee 2 days-travel, sing, Nashville I 59 to I65 530/50=10.6 hr New Orleans sleep, sightsee St. Louis, MO Nashville I65 470/50=9.4 hr 1 day-travel, sing Chicago Chicago Total driving distance:4180 mi Total driving hours: 83.6 hr Total number days of trip: 14 3.) Detere which highways to take, to get to each location. Calculate an approximate amount of time it will take to travel each leg of the trip. Assume a 50 mph highway speed (this helps allow for construction slow downs, rest stops, etc). How long will it take just to drive this entire route? 4.) Build a summary itinerary of the trip, showing each destination, the length of time it will take to travel between each leg, and what sites can be seen each day (can we see more than one attraction in the same day?) Allow time to enjoy the sites. How many miles is the entire trip? How many days should we allow for this trip? What other factors should we consider? Teacher note: There may be slight variation in the mileage, depending on what site they use to calculate driving mileage (not as the crow flies). The learners have total freedom on deciding how many days, should they elect to add time for local attractions. Incorrect would be if they put >24 hrs travel time in one day. Watch for correct result in total days added correctly.
Road Travel Exercise Name Imagine that you and your family are taking a road trip to visit several points of interest across the United States. Let s plan a trip! 1. Review the following list of travel opportunities. Select one list to plan a route to visit each location. List #1 List #2 List #3 List #4 List #5 The Alamo Lake Champlain Puget Sound Crater Lake Glacier Williamsburg Cape Hatteras Mississippi River, Great Smoky Grand Teton at Memphis Mountains The White House Lake Michigan, at Mammoth Cave Grand Canyon Lake Okeechobee Chicago Monticello Cape Cod Rio Grande Badlands Yellowstone National (at El Paso) Park The Hermitage Cape Canaveral Hoover Dam Grand Teton Mesa Verde National Park The Degas House Salt Lake, UT Wisconsin Dells Bryce Canyon Jamestown The Paul Revere House New York Harbor Chesapeake bay The Everglades Hot Springs Niagara Falls Yellowstone The Everglades Dinosaur National Park Zion 2. Check the locations on a map, and arrange a logical order to visit each attraction, to result in the shortest overall route. 3. Detere which highways to take, to get to each location. Calculate an approximate amount of time it will take to travel each leg of the trip. Assume a 50 mph highway speed. How long will it take just to drive this entire route? 4. Build a summary itinerary of the trip, showing each destination, the length of time it will take to travel between each leg, and what sites can be seen each day (can we see more than one attraction in the same day?) Allow time to enjoy the sites. How many miles is the entire trip? How many days should we allow for this trip? What other factors should we consider?