Field Trip Planner

Your class is going on a field trip. You will use the Internet to help you decide which place you would like to visit. You have two choices: Riverbanks Zoo or the South Carolina State Museum.

Once your group decides on which place to visit, click on the link to Riverbanks Zoo or to the State Museum. Your group will be taking a virtual tour of one of these attractions.
 

Riverbanks Zoo - State Museum
 

After you make your virtual visit, your group must gather information about the site and make a report about your visit to the rest of the class.

Your report must include the following information:

Go to http://www.maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py and create a driving map from your school to your destination. If you have some place to go to, but you don't know how to get there, the Yahoo Maps search engine can help. Yahoo Maps uses an incredible amount of city map information to find exactly how to get you where you want to go. You can even find data on to and from routes.

Riverbanks Zoo is located on Greystone Blvd. in Columbia, South Carolina

The State Museum is located on Gervais Street in Columbia, South Carolina.

After presenting your information to the class, each group will:

  1. Make a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two attractions.
  2. Create a chart that shows the name of your destination, the total admission cost for students and adults, the number of miles to your destination, and student vote. The chart should be created on a spread sheet and then transferred to poster board.
  3. create a set of rules to follow while on a school field trip.
Once all of the presentations have been made, the class will take a vote to decide which place the class will really visit.
 
 
 
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Others were developed or created by :  Carolyn Putnam and Cynthia Ridgeway Parker