The Amazing Road Trip

The Theme

The theme we chose was Along the Coast. We embraced this theme by travelling all the way up to Seattle, Washington, and then we circle back around to our initial starting point of Novato, California. We did this of course, along the coast.

Map Route

Our Route:

As you can see, our route makes sort of an "oval" around the upper west coast. Here were the destinations along our route:

Start: Novato, California

  • Eureka, California
  • Newport, Oregon
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Seattle, Washington
  • Bend, Oregon
  • Crater Lake, Oregon
  • Weed, California

End: Novato, California

Novato, CA

Eureka, CA

Newport, OR

Portland, OR

Seattle, WA

Bend, OR

Crater Lake, OR

Weed, CA

Hours and Mileage

Hours

The total time it took to travel between our destinations was 29 Hours and 40 Minutes.

Mileage

Our routes total mileage was 1,765 Miles.

Food, Lodging, and Vehicle Equations

Food and Lodging Equation

The equation used to calculate the cost of the food and lodging throughout our trip was:

y=700x+225

Vehicle Equation

The equation used to calculate the cost of the vehicle throughout the trip was:

y=67x+198

Vehicle

The vehicle we chose was an Audi A4 Cabriolet.

The mileage of it is 25 Miles Per Gallon.

Final Table and Graph

Table for the Amazing Road Trip

Table:

This table shows what days 11-14 will cost. The amount of time our group decided to take our trip for was 12 days. We chose 12 days because it was the only amount of time that fit our budget between $9,500 and $10,000.

Graph

The graph shows how much the trip would cost from days 0-12. The graph was scaled by 0-12 on the x-axis by ones, and 0-10,000 on the y-axis by one thousand.

Reflection

In this Amazing Road Trip Project used three of the Six C's, those being:

  • Communication: To decide where we went, and how we got there, we had to communicate in our group of three exactly what we wanted.
  • Collaboration: We collaborated on this project through making a couple of compromises. One of these compromises was how many we were going to go on the trip. At first, we came to the agreement that we would go for 11 days. After doing our calculations, we found that the only amount of days that would work is 12. So, as a group we had decide whether we changed the items we used, or changed the amount of days. We made our trip one day longer, and that was our compromise.
  • Critical Thinking: To decide where we went, we had think about sticking to our theme, while still going to places of interest. Also, we had to think about the price of our trip to stay in budget.

The most challenging aspect of the project was finding out how many days we needed to go on the trip. This took the most time, and the most effort to complete.

Some of our learning to targets where to:

  • Work in a group setting
  • Graph a linear equation
  • Find an equation from a situation

Working on this project helped deepen my understanding of how to easily pull an equation from a situation by forcing us to first to find what we wanted to do, and then gave us a step by step "guide" of finding the equation.

It also helped in graphing a linear equation, because once we had our equation we were made not only to make a table, but also a graph of the situation.

In conclusion, this project was a helpful, and fun tool that allowed my group to learn more about linear equations and graphs.