This activity would begin with the teams planning their route, continuing with teams rotating on and off of classroom computers. This is designed as a week long activity. Upon completion of this project, students will have become familiar with states and capitals. An awareness of time needed to travel distances will have been established. Creating and analyzing information from a graph or chart will have been experienced.
Students continue to become proficient on both the computer and the Internet.
Price difference between driving compared to flying would be measured. Students could determine the cheaper method of travel considering all costs. They could explain their answer. 1.0 Students understand place value of whole numbers and decimals to two decimal places, how these relate to simple fractions, and use concepts of negative numbers. 1.2 order and compare whole numbers and decimals to two decimal places 3.0 Students solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers and understand the relationships among the operations.