Road Trip!!
Imagine you and 2 friends are taking a road trip across Nebraska. Pack all the
essentials (pop, candy, cell phone, and your $600 to pay for a hotel every
night), fill the parent's car up with gas and get ready to have the time of your
life! Start at your school and map out the route that will give you best gas
mileage to visit the 6 towns of your choice and to find out the most interesting
information about your home state of Nebraska. You will spend a night in each of
the chosen towns and everyone will share a room. The Great Plains have never
been this fun!
The Task
You will learn:
 | the populations of the cities visited,
| at least one historical fact from each city,
| how to keep a journal of your experiences,
| how to visit your cities in the shortest amount of driving time,
| how to find the temperatures of the cities you visit and what to wear
while you visit,
| how to find a hotel in each city that is within your budget ($600). |
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Resources
www.mapquest.com
www.weatherchannel.com
www.lincoln.org/cvb/
www.nque.com/North-Platte/visithom.htm
www.visitnebraska.org
The Process
To accomplish this task, you must:
| choose 2 friends to travel with
| pick the 6 cities/towns that you would like to visit from the list:
Valentine, Brownville, Harrison, Grand Island, Sidney, Chadron, Alliance,
Norfolk, Blair, Gothenburg, Sutherland, North Platte, Ogallala, Oshkosk,
Gering, Scottsbluff, Bridgeport, Superior, Red Cloud, and Beatrice.
| go to www.mapquest.com and choose Road
Trip, then follow the instructions on the page. Choose round-trip and
continue to the next page. |
| put our school address as your starting location. |
| put your six cities in as destinations and organize your cities in the
order that you want to visit them (remember that you want the shortest
route) |
| on the first page of your journal write the cities in the order that you
will visit them, the estimated driving time and the total distance |
| in your journal make a page for each city the order that you visited
it. |
| each journal page must include the current weather conditions, a hotel
choice, cost, and location, a restaurant to eat at, one place to visit from
the destination guide, and at least one historical fact |
| after everything is included on your Road Trip, choose "print your
trip plan" and print each page from the "Your Route" part of
the web page. You do NOT need to include the links from the Hotels,
Destination Guide, and Know before you go sections of the page |
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Learning Advice
| The best web sites to visit are the sites sponsored by each city/town. |
| When looking for a hotel, restaurant, and a place to visit from the
destination guide in each city/town, click the "add
hotel/restaurant/place visited to stop on your route" button. |
Conclusion
When your Road Trip is completed and you have finished laundry, you will
reflect on all of the interesting things to do and learn in your home state of
Nebraska and realize that you REALLY do live in an AWESOME state! Now all you
have to do is turn in your printed Road Trip and your journal !
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