You need to plan a two-week trip to Europe that will take you to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Munich, and Amsterdam. To maximize your sightseeing time, you've decided to use the World Wide Web to help you find the opening times and costs of the various art museums and monuments you plan to visit. You don't want to find out that the day you've allocated to see the Louvre in Paris is a Tuesday—the day the Louvre is closed! You also want to make sure you take enough money to cover all the entrance fees.
Complete the Itinerary
You will be provided with a list of art museums and monuments that you may wish to explore in three more cities—Rome, Florence, and Amsterdam. To find the information you need to complete the itinerary, you will initiate a variety of searches and then follow the appropriate links. (The more you explore the Web sites related to your travel sites, the faster you'll find the required information). Here's a major tip! No one will be allowed to spend the entire day at one attraction; fill your day up with lots to do, and add as many lines to your table as necessary.
Convert Currencies and Calculate Total Costs
Finally, you will display a Currency Converter on the Web, convert the entrance fees to the currency of your choice, calculate the total entrance fee costs, then print out a copy in landscape orientation with the provided Microsoft Word Table.
Search the Paris Pages
Your first step is to use the Yahoo! Regional listings to find information about art museums in Paris. The Yahoo! Regional listings provide you with a quick and easy way to get information specific to a country, city, or geographical region. You will search the Paris Pages to find the operating hours and costs for six attractions in Paris.
Steps:
- In Netscape or Internet Explorer, click in the Location Box or Address Box and type: yahoo.com, scroll down until you see the list of Yahoo! topics, then click Regional.
- Click on Countries, click on France, click on Cities, then click on Paris@.
- Click Entertainment and Arts, click Museums and Exhibits, then click on Paris Museums to display the Paris Pages site for the Museums of Paris.
- Scroll down the page, click Interactive Map, then scroll down the page that appears until the screen is filled with an interactive map of Paris.
- While you are in Paris, you've decided to visit the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Picasso Museum, the Rodin Museum and the Eiffel Tower. You have a lot of ground to cover in only three days, Next bookmark the page.
- Click Bookmarks or Favorites on the menu bar, then click Add Bookmark or Add Favorites.
- (You will return to the Interactive Map after you have found information about the Louvre).
- Click the blue circled 1 to display the Paris Page for the Louvre, then click Practical Information.
- Note: You can also display the Louvre page by scrolling above the interactive map and clicking Musée du Louvre.
- Scroll down the Practical Information page until you see the information on opening times, prices, and closures, switch to the Microsoft Word Table on the Taskbar at the bottom of your screen, note the days you are in Paris, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), then switch back to Netscape or Internet Explorer.
- You can't go to the Louvre on Tuesday because it is closed, you decide to go to the Louvre on Wednesday morning at 9:00. Next, copy "Musée du Louvre" and the price information from the Louvre Practical Information page to the appropriate cells in your Word Table.
- Scroll to the top of the page, select Musée du Louvre, click Edit on the menu bar, click Copy, switch to your Word Table, click the Museum/Monument cell next to Wednesday, April 15, click Edit on the menu bar, then click Paste.
- (You may also use the appropriate toolbar buttons if you wish, another method uses the right-mouse button to select Copy and Paste. Of course, there is also the [CTRL] + [C] for copy and the [CTRL] + [V] for paste, choose any of the above methods that suit you).
- Switch back to Netscape or Internet Explorer, open on the Taskbar below, select the price shown in the Price section, copy to the appropriate Cost cell in the Table, then enter 9:00 - Noon in the Visit Time cell.
- Your Wednesday morning is complete. While you're at the Louvre site, explore some of its pages to discover what you could see if you went to the Louvre, then go on to find information about the museums and galleries you will visit on Tuesday, Wednesday afternoon, and Thursday.
Steps to Complete the Itinerary:
- Switch back to your browser, click Bookmarks or Favorites on the menu bar, click More Bookmarks, click Paris Pages - Map of Monuments and Museums.
- Find and click on Musée d'Orsay in the list of Museums, click Practical Information.
- You decide to go at 10:00 on Tuesday morning.
- Select Musée d'Orsay at the top of the page, press [CTRL] + [C], switch to your Word Table, click the Museum/Monument cell for Tuesday, April 15, then paste the copied text [CTRL] + [V].
- Display Netscape or Internet Explorer again, select the price displayed in the Prices section, copy it to the appropriate cell in your Word Table, then enter 10:00 - Noon in the Visit Time cell.
- Switch back to your browser, display the Practical Information page for the Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel in the Monuments section), copy Tour Eiffel and the price to visit the third floor (see the Lift prices) to your Word Table, then enter 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Visit Time cell.
- Find the required information for the Centre Georges Pompidou (listed as "Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre George Pompidou), the Rodin Museum (called Musée Auguste Rodin), and the Picasso Museum (called Musée National Picasso) to complete the Paris section of your itinerary.
- Use the Yahoo! Regional listings to display information about the various museums and monuments in the remaining three cities, then copy the required information to your itinerary.
- (Note: Not all the sites you visit will be as comprehensive as the Paris pages—you may have to follow a variety of links, and you may have to use Excite or Infoseek to complete the assignment).
CONVERT CURRENCIES AND CALCULATE TOTAL COSTS
Your next task is to display a currency converter so you can change the various entrance fees into the currency of your choice. Note that the conversion rates change daily. If you really were going on the trip to Europe, you would need to check the new exchange rates before you leave!
Steps:
- In Netscape or Internet Explorer, click in the Location Box or Address Box and type: hotbot.com or another favorite Search Tool. In the Search Tool, type:Xenon Currency Converter in the Search box, click Search or just hit the Enter key. In the Universal Currency Converter type in the amount of currency you wish to convert into USD (United States Dollars).
- Note: You may have to use their Classic Previous Version listed a little further down the page if you don't see ITL Italian Liras or NLG Dutch Guilders as a choice
- Display your Word Table, note the entrance fee for the Musée d'Orsay, then display Netscape or Internet Explorer.
- Scroll down the currency Converter page to display the I Want to Convert and Into boxes, enter the entrance fee in the I Want To Convert box, scroll down the list of currencies, then select French Francs.
- Select the currency you wish to convert to from the list of currencies in the Into box, then click Perform Currency Conversion.
- Scroll down the page that appears to view the conversion, select the converted amount, copy it to the Conversion cell for the Musée d'Orsay in your spreadsheet program .
- Switch back to your browser, then click the Back button to return to the Currency Converter.
- Switch between your Word Table and the Currency Converter in your browser to convert the rest of the entrance fees listed in your itinerary.
- Turn-in your completed Itinerary Table for grading credit. You may wish to format the table to your own preferences, to present the data in a more attractive presentation package. (Many students add images they've found at these sites to dress up the plain table.)