Project Overview
Do you have any idea what is involved in planning a two-week vacation in a foreign country? Well, prepare a two-currency budget for such a vacation in a Latin-America country that you have never visited before. And you'll find out!
"A Vacation, Latin Style" is a multidisciplinary project which will enhance a student's learning experience through "unique and compelling" applications of instructional technology. In particular, this learning experience makes use of stimulating new applications of the Internet in education asuch as real-time financial data, real-time political news, and international cultural resources.
Students will tap into these fantastic assets in the context of an authentic situation which will need:
social studies savvy for intelligent decisions making;
language arts proficiency for a well rounded
summary of the country's profile; and specially,
mathematics skills for the budget itself.
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