This Road Trip Project is a great cross-curricular project to try out in any classroom grades 6-12! It brings together Social Studies, Mathematics, Language Arts, and Science all in one!

Students will research and use Google Docs and Excel to completely plan out an educational road trip across the country!

Students will create a day-to-day itinerary with weather predictions, a map visual showing their journey, a letter to their principal explaining the educational value of the trip to request funds, and a cost-analysis spreadsheet with a visual (pie chart, bar graph, etc.) using Excel that includes the cost of flights, gas, accommodations, admission fees, etc.

Bundle includes:
1. UBD Lesson Plan of the Project which includes detailed directions of how to start the project, roles of the students, organization, suggestions, etc.

2. Teacher-generated examples of the itinerary, letter, map, and cost-analysis spreadsheet

3. Letter Format/Template

4. Road Trip Theme ideas document

5. How to predict weather/weather websites document

Total Pages

15 pages

Answer Key

N/A

Teaching Duration

2 Weeks

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