Process

Your group will be determined by your teacher. You will be planning a day trip for a family of four. Your group should work like a family by cooperating, being respectful, and staying focused on your shared goals.

Step 1: Have your team of four break into smaller teams of two. Decide as a group of four what 3 websites that you are going to be visiting with your partner. As you visit each site your will take turns being in charge of the mouse, and writing down the information that you have learned. Remember you will be responsible for sharing your information with your team of four.

Step 2: Research your day trip options. Remember on each site to find out how much it costs to get in, how much it costs to do any extra activity, how much it costs to park, and how much you will spend on food. * You may need to do some estimation (for example, if addmission cost $34.95 per person, you could make it $35.00) * You may also need to so some double digit addition and multiplication (for example, if admission is $35.00 per person you can multiply that by 4.) After you have added up your day trip costs, you may use your calculator to double check your math and to do multiplication. As the mouse clicker you will... search the following: Wrigley Field, Millennium Park, Lincoln Park Zoo, John Hancock Observatory, Shedd Aquarium, Sears Tower, Segway Tours, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum websites. You and your partner will make decisions together of where to look on the website. (Check out Chicago City Pass for deals) As a recorder you will... write down on your day trip sheet the cost of admission, the cost of any special activities ( an example would be: how much it costs to ride the train at the zoo?), the cost of parking, the cost of food (estimate). You will also help the mouse clicker find the information on the website * You may switch roles for the different websites you research Once you and your partner have researched your 3 day trips and figured out the total costs of each day trip you will get back together with your team of four and share your information.

Step 3: Now that you know how much each day trip costs, you and your partner need to decide together what day trip/s you would like to visit and still stay in your budget. You will create a brochure for the day trip that you are planning on visiting. In the brochure you should show how much it costs to visit as well as pictures showing how fun and cool your day trip place is. It is important to be creative and stay in your budget. You and your partner will share your day trip brochure with the class and explain why you chose your day trip to visit.