Let's Take A Trip

Objectives:

• Students will use the Internet to find the distance from their home city to another city.
• Students will decide how many miles they could travel in one day.
• Students will find places of interest to visit along the way to their final destination.
• Students will describe in a daily journal the places they might visit.

• Desktop or laptop computer
• Modem with minimal 14400 Baud Rate
• Internet Access
• Word processing program

1. Decide on a major city in the contiguous United States that you would like to visit.
2. Using MAPQUEST, you will:
   • Click on TRIPQUEST
   • Type in the name of your home city.
   • Type in your final destination city.
3. Find out the number of miles you would have to travel to get there.
4. If you drive for approximately 8 hours per day, figure out a good destination for the first day.
5. Click on the NET SEARCH button on the above bar and enter the name of the city you would be visiting that day. Scroll until you find a site that mentions interesting places or highlights in the city.
6. Continue with this procedure until you reach your final destination.
7. Using the word processing program of your choice, take notes in a daily journal about the interesting sites you visited.
8. Click on one of the cars to begin your trip.
   

   Extensions:

   1. Using your daily journal entries as reference, write a report about your trip.