Budget Your Dream Vacation

A WebQuest for High School Consumer Math Students

Designed by

Katie Ryan

Introduction

As a consumer math class, we are preparing ourselves for the real world. We have spent a large amount of the semester talking about handling money and budgeting accounts. Now is your time to show what you have learned. Budgets are a part of life and you must maintain a strict financial plan to succeed in life. The following activity is designed to be a fun way to learn about creating your own budget and spending your parents’ money for the LAST time.

The Task

You have just graduated from High School and your parents want to send you on vacation. They told you to choose three different places you want to visit and they will send you to one on the three. There is a catch, they tell you they will only give you 1500 dollars to pay for the entire trip.

You must choose your destinations on the following criteria:

ü must fly or take a train (no driving)

ü must eat breakfast daily

ü must stay in a hotel

ü Traveling when you get there

ü must stay for seven days and six night

ü must leave on a Friday night (after 5pm)

Your parents love you so they are letting you take one friend along with you (they are not going with you). Oh yes, one more thing you need to show a PowerPoint presentation of your budget and agenda to your parents in order for them to choose with vacation is best for you. After working hard on your presentation your end result will be a fabulous vacation with your friend. You have one week to plan the three trips. You may use any resources (at least 3) you have available, including the internet.

By the end of this lesson you will:

-Have used a variety of resources to plan a vacation

-Planned a vacation on a strict budget

The Process

1. Decide on three places you would like to travel

2. Find out how you will get there

3. Divide your budget up into categories (you may want to use the criteria list above)

4. Find out how you will eat Breakfast everyday

5. Plan a daily agenda by the hour for seven days (don’t forget to include traveling time)

6. Create a nine minute PowerPoint presentation on your budget and the three places

You will have 4 days in class to work on this project.

Day 1- In class to plan

Day 2,3,4-Media Center to use computers and other resources. (Remember do not just use the internet you need at least 3 resources and your PowerPoint needs to be finished to present in class on the fifth day.

You will be given nine minutes total to presentation your three choices. The class will vote on which trip you will be taking.

You will need to do some work outside of class

Resources

Evaluation

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
At least 3 resources	Used one resource or did not use other resources besides the internet	Used Two resource or did not use other resources besides the internet	Used three resources only one outside the internet	Used three Different types of resources
Budgets	Description of three budgets and did not meet the guidelines	Description of three budgets and only met half the guidelines	Description of three budgets and used all the guidelines about did not stay within the budget	Description of three budgets and used all the guidelines within the budget
Presentation	Description of three vacations without explaining the budget	Description of three vacations only explaining parts of the budget.	Description of three vacations explaining the budget with some detail	Description of three vacations clearly explaining the budgets in great detail
Time	Presentation within 5 minutes or over 3 minutes	Presentation within 6 minutes or over 2 minutes	Presentation within7 minutes or over 1minutes	Presentation within 8minutes or over 0 minutes

Conclusion

After each presentation we as a class will act as the parents and decide where the student will be going on the vacation. This activity was designed so you would be able to use your budgeting skills to set up a budget to travel somewhere special. I hope you enjoyed the activity and learned about different budgets.