Parents and children can plan a trip to an Indiana city. Students can write about their favorite vacations and write about where they would like to go in the future. Parents can reminisce over past vacation pictures and postcards. Students and parents can create a travel brochure. Students can write letters or postcards to friends and relatives on vacation.
Students can read maps while on vacation.
They can predict how long it will take to get to a certain location. For the slideshow, you would need PowerPoint or HyperStudio and a projector to display the computer screen would be helpful. Students used a webquest to plan a vacation. They could choose from 3 Indiana tourist sites to find information on city attractions. Students can be assessed on a research fact sheet, map directions, vacation agenda, budget, brochure, slide show, personal letter, and a rubric for the overall project.