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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,
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| at least one historical fact from each city,
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| how to keep a journal of your experiences,
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| how to visit your cities in the shortest amount of driving time,
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| how to find the temperatures of the cities you visit and what to wear
while you visit,
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| put our school address as your starting location.
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| 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). You can try a few different routes to find the shortest.
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| 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
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| in your journal make a page for each city in the order that you will visited
it.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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 !
Score Yourself
Fill in the following rubric to score yourself on the road trip
that you took across Nebraska. Each student must do
his/her own rubric. This rubric will help your teacher evaluate your grade.
Highlight the whole rubric and right-click on the rubric. Click on
"Copy". Open Microsoft Word and right click in the top left hand
corner. Then click "Paste" and fill in your rubric.
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1 point |
3 points |
5 points |
score for topic |
| Journal |
you had a journal |
you had a journal
that included at least 3 of the objectives |
your journal
included all of the criteria given |
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| Trip Mileage |
you have all 6
cities on your map |
you have a fairly
short trip for the cities that you are visiting |
you have the
shortest possible trip mapped and you tried several different routes |
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| Final Printing of Trip |
you didn't print
anything |
you printed the
main page of the trip (the map) |
you printed all of
the pages that your teacher needs |
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| 1st page of your Journal |
you have a first
page |
your first page
includes all 6 cities in a random order |
it includes 6
cities in order, the mileage, and the estimated driving time |
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| Group Work |
you showed up for
class |
you wrote down a
few things |
you helped your
group choose 6 cities, map the route, and discover new things about your
state |
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| Budget |
I spent way too
much money and we slept in the car for half of the nights! |
We spent all of
our money while we were gone! |
We budgeted our
money so that we could buy our teacher a really cool present for making us
take this trip! |
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Historical Fact |
Everyone already knew all of our
interesting facts! |
Most of the information that we
found was new to other members of our class. |
The information that we found
impressed the other students in our class and they want to Road Trip with
us next time! |
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Overall |
I don't know where
my assignment is at! |
I think I finished
the assignment!?! |
I finished it and
I think I did an AWESOME job! |
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Randi