Premis:

You have just been hired as a travel blogger. Your new job entails traveling to new cities within the United States and reviewing them through a travel journal. You need to have 3 components for each city visited. Each link will take you to an example. There are video explanations below as well.

• Location 1 Journal (Google Docs) - Write a first-person account of your trip to the city. This is a journal format with information about what you did and why. 

• Location 1 Expense Report (Part of the Journal using Google Docs) - Keep track of the places that you visit and the cost to visit that place. Include a link to the website.

• Location 1 Map (Google Maps - Also linked in the title section of the Google Doc) - To show where you went.

The Google Doc template to complete the project has been shared with you in Google Classroom. You will be using this Google Doc for the next three weeks.

Here are some helpful travel-related websites you can use:

Google Flights (currently blocked but search "flights to name of city" in google)

Google Hotels (Currently blocked but search "hotels in name of city" in google)

Google Search: Things to do in (name of city)

Yelp

Uber Price Estimates

Journal, Expense Report, and MyMap for the first location Due May 7 - Example Location 1

Journal, Expense Report, and MyMap for the second location Due May 23 - Example Location 2

Final Project Website Due May 30 - Website Example

Please Note: 

• 1. You must stay active and do a variety of real activities that are unique to your location. You are only allowed to do an activity once.

     • For example, if you go to the San Diego Museum of Art one day, you can't go back there the next; you must go do something else. You can visit other museums like the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, but you can't go to the same place twice.

  2. You may not stay in your hotel. You must go do things. You cannot take naps, watch something, play video games, etc. 

  3. You are 11, so you have to do things that 11-year-olds can do. For example, you cannot go to a nightclub or rent a car, etc. 

  4. Include at least one example of dialogue each day of the project.

  5. You need to find food and activities that are specific to your area. Something that you can only do in the location that you are in. For example, no Burger King. They also need to be specific, like Ocean Beach San Diego, not I went to the beach.

  6. Use pictures, descriptions, and reviews to describe your experience.

  7. Select direct flights when possible and note times of departure and arrival. Keep in mind logical amounts of time to do activities.

  8. You need to leave California. You are sent out of state to review other places. Don't go to your "Aunt's house" or somewhere else like that because if you are reporting out to someone who wants to visit that location, that is not useful to them.

  9. Do activities that are in or close to the city you are visiting. Don't drive more than an hour away. There are plenty of activities in any city you choose, so once you are there, stay in that area. 

  10. You can round off prices to the tens place value on the expense report.

      • Example: $32 for lunch can be rounded to $30 or a Hotel that is $158 can be rounded to $160

Video Resources for Creating the Website

The website must be completed in order.

Here is a link to my example website