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Budgeting: Vacation Planning
For this vacation planning worksheet, students plan a vacation. They determine the approximate cost of their vacation. Students complete an itenrary and graphic organizer to identify daily costs of the vacation. This two-page...
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Science-Related Field Trips That Won’t Break the Bank
Try some of these tips to put a new spin on the old field trip favorites.
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Fun Field Trip Funding Ideas
Whether it's a lack of funds or lack of time, check out these great ideas for getting creative with field trips.
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Springbreak Trip
Twelfth graders plan and calculate the cost of taking a specific Spring Break trip, with a certain budget and given set costs. they determine miles traveled, gas costs, hotel expenses, etc.
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Plan an Adventure
For kids, taking a vacation is all fun and games, but after completing this pre-algebra project, they'll have a whole new appreciation for the planning that makes these trips possible. Given a budget of $5,000 to spend on purchasing the...
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The Ultimate Road Trip
Sixth graders experience and practice real-world geography, science and math as they imagine planning out the ultimate road trip. They set goals and maintain a daily budget as they are given a set of rules as they plan their road trip...
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Budgeting and Travel
Students plan a trip to the Olympics. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip. Students are given a balance and must purchase airline ticket, hotel...
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Budgeting
Learners establish budgeting techniques. For this Economics lesson, students work in small groups to prepare a budget for a simulation activity, purchasing new playground equipment.
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The Best Vacation Ever
Students research various vacation destinations and the costs of travel. For this vacation planning lesson, students obtain information for various purposes, research sites, document their findings, learn about geographical regions, and...
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Making Savvy Consumer Choices
It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a lesson that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a grocery...
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Summer Trip
Fourth graders search for information and directions to specific cities from their homes, figure cost of trip when given miles per gallon, distance, and cost per gallon of gas, develop outline budget for summer trip, and draw and label...
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. For this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Planning a Trip
Learners collect data, organize data, and compute differences of multi-digit numbers. In this data analysis lesson, students put together their best travel plan in small groups as outlined in the first lesson. Learners study a map,...
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What A Trip!
Students plan a vacation trip from start to finish. Given a budget, they make decisions regarding where they would like to go, what mode of transportation they will use, where they will lodge, and what attractions they will visit while...
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Planning My Vacation Online
Students use a variety of resources to decide on a vacation destination. They locate three points of interest, a hotel, and two restaurants at their destination.Students obtain driving directions for their trip, create a trip budget, and...
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Trip to the Greenbrier
Tenth graders explore the Greenbriar Resort. In this budgeting lesson, 10th graders plan and calculate the cost of trips from their home to the Greenbriar Resort.
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Travel Plan Project
You can use a travel plan project in the classroom to learn about budgets, maps, time management, and more.
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Closure Lesson - Planning for the Trip
Students prepare for a camping trip. In this camping trip planning lesson, students work in small groups as they discuss their expectations for their upcoming trip. They receive and plan for a specific task such as budgeting, cooking, or...
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Organizing a Business Trip: A Technolgy-Integrated Project
Students research the Internet to gather information about silk and make travel arrangements for a business trip. They create a memo to participants, create a database of suppliers, a letter to suppliers, design company letterhead and...
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Coast to Coast Virtual Trip
Pupils complete a variety of exercises and activities as they plan a coast to coast trip across America. They keep a journal that includes where they went, what they did, what they saw, etc. They compare two cities they visited along the...
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Band Tour Across America
Students plan the trip of a band across America. In this money planning lesson, students create a budget for the band using excel basic functions. They manage the band and its budget and relate the tour to future budgeting needs of the...
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Vacation Anyone?
Students locate resources on Internet, calculate expenses based on a budget, locate destinations on a map, calculate mileage for a cross country trip, and design and create a presentation that summarizes the journey.
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Imaginary Trip to South Korea
Students "visit" South Korea through the use of technology, in a fun, and stimulating, detailed project. They arrange travel, make choices, work through a budget, learn history, have exposure to language, and get a sense of what a...
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Virtual Travel Plan
Students navigate the web to prepare for an imaginary trip and record expenses involved. In this state culture and symbol instructional activity, students gather information to be used in a multimedia project.