My Teacher’s
Winter Vacation
Your teacher is in REALLY big trouble! She does so much at school that she almost forgot winter vacation is right around the corner! Since she is your favorite teacher, she needs YOUR HELP!!!!!!! She wants to travel by car to five different cities in the United States. She needs you to plan everything… where she will eat, where she will stay, and where she will have fun! She will look through all of the proposals and choose which trip she wants to take! She leaves January 2nd, so get busy planning!
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Travel Planning
Use a map in your social studies book to list which cities your teacher will visit on her road trip in an order that makes sense.
City 1: ______
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Useto determine the distance between each city.
Traveling From / Traveling To / MilesMooresville, NC
Mooresville, NC
Use the chart below to document which days you will be sightseeing and which days you will be traveling. Remember, you cannot travel more than 600 miles in a day and you cannot stay in a city longer than three days. Your teacher needs to be back in Mooresville by January 22nd so she can get back to work!
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Sightseeing Attractions Planning
Use the chart below to document what attractions you will visit on your sightseeing days. You must visit at least one attraction on each sightseeing day! You may not visit any attractions on your traveling days!
Day # / City / Attraction / Attraction Description / Visit Time / CostTotal Attraction Cost: / ______
Hotel Planning
Use to determine which hotels you will be staying in each night. Document the information in the chart below. First, determine which hotels you will stay at on your sight seeing days. Then, determine where you will be on your traveling days so you can find a hotel close to that location.
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Total Hotel Cost: / ______
Breakfast Planning (optional)
If breakfast is not included in the price of your hotel, use the chart below to plan what your teacher will eat for breakfast each day. You should choose five restaurants from and visit them on a rotation.
Day # / Morning City / Address / Meal / Meal CostTotal Breakfast Cost: / ______
Lunch Planning
Use the chart below to plan what your teacher will eat for lunch each day. You should choose five restaurants from and visit them on a rotation. First, determine where you will eat lunch on your sight seeing days. Then, determine where you will eat lunch on your traveling days so you can find a restaurant close to the location you will be.
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Total Lunch Cost: / ______
Dinner Planning
Use the chart below to plan what your teacher will eat for dinner each day. You must visit at least one “fancy restaurant” per city. You may want to use information from . For the remainder of your meals, you should choose five restaurants from all-restaurants/and visit them on a rotation.
First, determine where you will eat dinner on your sight seeing days. Then, determine where you will eat dinner on your traveling days so you can find a restaurant close to the location you will be.
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Car Rental
Use to find a car below for your teacher to use during her trip.
Pick Up Date & Time:Drop Off Date & Time:
Car Rental Company Name:
Car Rental Company Address:
Car Type & Description:
Total Rental Car Cost:
Use to find the “combined” city & highway gas mileage of the car you are renting.
Combined Gas Mileage Rate:Gas Cost
Use the “Travel Planning” chart from page 2 to determine how many total miles your teacher will travel on her trip.
Total Miles Traveled:If gas costs $2.00 per gallon throughout the United States, use your “combined gas mileage rate” and the “total miles traveled” from above to determine the total cost your teacher will spend in gas.
Total Gas Cost:Total Cost
Use the information you have calculated in this project to find the total cost of your teacher’s trip in the chart below.
Total Attraction Cost:Total Hotel Cost:
Total Breakfast Cost:
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Total Rental Car Cost:
Total Gas Cost:
Final Total:
Final US Road Trip Project Choices
- Now that you understand what is involved in planning a trip, you need create a proposal for your teacher’s winter trip! You can decide how you will present your proposal for your teacher… the options are endless! Be sure to include all of the information you researched including what cities she will visit, the timeline she will follow, what attractions she will see, what hotels she will stay at, what restaurants she will eat at, what car she will drive, and the total cost of her entire trip.
- Your teacher thinks it may be faster and cheaper to fly to each location and rent a car at every place. Use to find airline flights for your teacher to take and to find cars for your teacher to rent in each city to determine how much this option would cost your teacher. Additionally, adjust your timeline and any meals or hotel costs that may be different as a result of your transportation changes. Present the comparison to your teacher in a final format.
- Your teacher realizes that she needs to stick to a budget. She only has a budget of $5,000 for this trip. Determine what you can change in your proposal so your teacher only spends $5,000. Present this proposal to your teacher in a final format.
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US Road Trip Math Project Rubric
Proposal ______of 15 points
Does your proposal make sense? Did you include meals for every day, a hotel for every day, an activity for each day that you are sightseeing, and car rental information?
Math Accuracy ______of 25 points
Did you include all of your prices? Did you add all of your prices together correctly or calculate your prices accurately?
Final Project ______of 10 points
Did you include all of the components in your final project? Does your presentation look organized and neat?
Total ______of 50 points
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