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!
Name ___________________________________________________________
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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: __________________________________________________
City 2: __________________________________________________
City 3: __________________________________________________
City 4: __________________________________________________
City 5: __________________________________________________
Use www.mapquest.com to determine the distance between each city.
Traveling From
Traveling To
Miles
Mooresville, 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!
Day # Morning City
Evening City
Traveling or Sightseeing
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Mooresville, NC
Traveling
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Mooresville, NC
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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
Cost
Total Attraction Cost: _______________
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Hotel Planning
Use www.expedia.com 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.
Day
#
Evening City
Hotel Name
Cost
per night
Type of Room
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Total Hotel Cost: _______________
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CheckIn Time
Breakfast
Included?
Day
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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 http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/all-restaurants/ and
visit them on a rotation.
Morning
Address
Meal
City
Meal
Cost
Total Breakfast Cost: _______
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Lunch Planning
Use the chart below to plan what your teacher will eat for lunch each day. You
should choose five restaurants from http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/allrestaurants/ 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.
Morning
Address
Meal
City
Meal
Cost
Total Lunch Cost: _______
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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 http://www.allmenus.com. For the remainder of your meals,
you should choose five restaurants from http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/
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.
Day
#
1
Evening
City
Address
Meal
Meal
Cost
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Total Dinner Cost: _______
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Car Rental
Use https://www.enterprise.com/ 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 https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymake/ 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:
Total Lunch Cost:
Total Dinner Cost:
Total Rental Car Cost:
Total Gas Cost:
Final Total:
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Final US Road Trip Project Choices
1. 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.
2. Your teacher thinks it may be faster and cheaper to fly to each location and
rent a car at every place. Use www.expedia.com to find airline flights for
your teacher to take and www.enterprise.com 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.
3. 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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