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Electronic Field Trips
Bon Voyage

	Brief Description Objectives Materials and Resources Activity Description Internet Resources

• Grade level: Middle School, High School

• Subject Area: Math

Brief Description

    Students will "visit" a great site, Bon Voyage, [http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/glazer/bonvoyage/bonvoyage.html] produced by the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. While there, students will use the Internet to tour places such as the medieval lands of Europe or the mystical world of Asia. Students will experience authentic learning while exploring actual sites, manipulating real data, creating mathematical functions and planning budgets.

Objectives

    Students will:

• plan a virtual trip
• use a foriegn exchange table
• create an algebraic equation to calculate foreign currency
• develop a budget

Materials and Resources

1. Paper and pencil for notes, all assignments must be typed
2. Make a copy of the assignment and criteria for each student or make a transparency for the overhead projector
3. PC or Macintosh, monitor and modem
4. Access to the Internet and Web browser, preferably Netscape

Activity Description

• Go to the Bon Voyage [http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/glazer/bonvoyage/bonvoyage.html] site

• Read the activity description

• Be sure to click on "Example" to see the trip to Dynomania and France!

• Look at Assignment and Grading Scale, from the main page. Use the overhead or ditto to review the assignment guidelines. You can also find:
  • Foriegn Exchange Rates
    [http://www.dna.lth.se/cgi-bin/kurt/rates]

  • Currency Exchange Information
    [http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/currency.html]

  • Virtual Tourist
    [http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/]

  • Travel Information Library
    [http://www.digimark.net/rec-travel/]

  • Online Virtual Museums
    [http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html]

  • Worldwide Travel and Tourism Information
    [http://rec-travel.digimark.net/]

• Encourage them to use the internet to locate currency exchange tables and online tourism guides to visit popular sites around the globe.

• Use the assignment guidelines to record their journey.

Internet Resources

• Foriegn Exchange Rates
  [http://www.dna.lth.se/cgi-bin/kurt/rates]

• Currency Exchange
  [http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/currency.html]

• Virtual Tourist
  [http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/]
  A map-based directory of all the WWW servers.

• Travel Information Library
  [http://www.digimark.net/rec-travel/]

• Online Virtual Museums
  [http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html]

• Web Crawler
  [http://webcrawler.com/]

Choose Your View	10 Big Ideas	Electronic Field Trips