Let's Pick a Vacation Spot !

This lesson will teach you how to bring information together and make a final decision.

Though it may be a challenging job for most of you, I hope it will interest you. Additionally, it will be useful to see the skills you have when it comes to the Internet.

Also, it will show how to support your opinions. That is why I have you students make the final decision on where you are going on vacation.

Attention, Teachers:

This lesson covers the following Georgia Performance Standards.

MATH:

M3D1. Students will create and interpret simple tables and graphs.

a) Solve problems by organizing and displaying data in charts, tables, and graphs.

b) Construct and interpret line plot graphs, pictographs, Venn diagrams, and bar graphs using scale increments of 1, 2, 5, and 10.

M3P1. Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology).

a) Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving.

b) Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.

c) Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.

M3P3. Students will communicate mathematically.

a) Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.

b) Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

c) Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely

M3P4. Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.

a) Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.

b) Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.

c) Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS:

ELA3W2 The student writes in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational, persuasive, and response to literature. The student produces a narrative that:

b. Sustains a focus.

c. Includes the appropriate purpose, expectations, and length for the audience and genre.

e. Uses appropriate organizational structures to ensure coherence (well developed beginning, middle, and end, and sequence of events) and strategies (transition words/phrases, time cue words, and sequence of events).

g. Provides a sense of closure.

h. May include pre-writing.

i. May include a revised and edited draft.

j. May be published.